Spokane County WA Archives News.....Guilty Of Murder Of Neighbors September 25, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 25, 1904
Spokane,Wash.,Sept.24,- Rudolph Wetter,on trial at Grangeville,Idaho,for the 
slaying of Chris Long and John Waln,has been pronounced guilty of muder in the 
first degree.The penalty is stated to be hanging,but sentence has not yet been 
passed.
Wetter and his victims lived less than a mile apart in the Salmon River 
country.One evening,declaring his intention to "drive those fellows down the 
trail" Wetter went to their cabin and deliberately shot down Waln and Long.Two 
others of their party ran away.Later Wetter appeared at a store several miles 
distant,where he took some drinks and stated he would get out of the killing 
scrape all right.

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