REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — To his dying day, William Rose always said he was simply riding his horse over to his uncle’s farm. He later identified the man as William Rose, a neighbor who lived about 15 miles away. An illustration of William Rose, as shown in the Sept. 16, 1891, edition of the New Ulm Review. The headline about the William Rose case in the Oct. 14, 1891, edition of the New Ulm Review. The headline about the William Rose execution, in the Oct. 17, 1891, editon of the Minneapolis Times.