Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Paid with His Life. [ARTICLE]

Paid with His Life.

[Sandwich (Ont.) telegram.] Luke Phipps was hanged here this morning for the murder of his wife last August. Only a few people witnessed the and Phipps, who behaved coolly throughout the proceedings, addressed them briefly. When the trap fell a few minutes after 10, the murderer’s neck was broken, and it is believed he died almost instantly. As soon as his heart ceased to beat physicians made experiments with a galvanic battery, but although they succeeded in making the breast heave, no sign of a heart-beat was observable. Phipps, who was a Detroit bar-tender, had been separated from his wife, and on Aug. 19, while crazed with liquor, met her on the steamer Hope while crossing from Detroit to Windsor. He at once drew a revolver and shot her three times, the woman dying before she reached the Canadian shore. After a desperate struggle the murderer was overpowered and lodged in jail at Sandwich, but escaped Nov. 22, in company with another murderer, and made his way to Pullman, Hl. He was arrested at the latter place, and made every effort to avoid extradition, but the adverse decision of Commissioner Hoyne was sustained by Attorney General Brewster, and Phipps was returned to Sandwich in April. He was tried and sentenced on the same day, the jury being out about half an hour.