The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-21
THREE MURDERERS ARE ELECTROCUTED Triple Execution at Sing
 Sing Prison WITHOUT INCIDENT Pietro Falletto, Frank Schermerhorn and Bert F. Brown, All Charged
 With Murder-History
 of the Crimes

Ossing, N. Y, November 20.-rhree murderers were put to death in Sing Sing prison today just as dawn began to Hills. They were Pietro Falletto of Port Chester. Frank Schermerhorn of Mill brook near Poughkeepsie, and Bert L. Brown of Rye.
 All went to the chair in the order named. Executions began at 5:2S o'clock and continued 2S minutes. It was the first triple elctrocution at Sing Sing since the electric current superseded the gallows in New York state.
 Twenty years ago four mIrderers paid the death penalty at once time by hang ing.
 All three executions proceeded without incident or any delay.
 The executioner turned the switch with Falletto in the chair at 5:2s o'clock and two minutes later the Italian was pro- nounced dead.
 A single contact of the 1sOo voltage was enough The other two men showed more powers of resistance and three applica- tions were necessary in each case. With Schermerhorn the current was turned on at 5:s4 o'clock and the last contact was concluded at 5:49 o'clock.
 Three minutes later Brown had been strapped to the chair and the current was soon coursing through his body. The three contacts given him lasted from 5:45 o'clock to 5:51 o'clock. The same voltage was used in each case.
 Of the crimes for which the man ex plated the Schermerhorn's case attracted the most notice. On the night of Jan uary 13, 1910, Sarah Brymer a nurse em- ployed by Barnes Compton at Milbrook, was found dead in the Compton home under circumstances which indicated that she had been criminally assaulted and sirangled. Schermerhorn, aged % years, and married, the family coachman, was arrested on suspicion and subsequently, convicted on circumstantial evidence. The day after the crime officers searching the coachman's house found him lying un- der a bed with his throat cut, but he soon recovered. A quantity of silverware stolen from the Compton house was found fin a chimney f1ue in the coachman's house. upon a Japanese servant but finally he upon an Japanese servant but finally he confessed the crime.
 Bertram l.. Brown, a negro, killed William Broan, a half brother, in the village of Rye, May 21, 1910. The Browns had been engaged with others early in the evening in a game of craps in a saloon and William Brown had won all the money. William Brown left the others and started home. Bert Brown, with two companions, went to the Brown home and asked for his mother. William Brown opened the door and as he did so Bert Brown fired two shots, one of which killed his half brother. The defendant admitted firing the fatal shot but contended he had done so in self defense.
 Pietro Falletto cut his victims throat in Levin's store in Portchester, August 13, 1909. The victim was S9 years of age and weighed little over 100 pounds, while Falletto weighed 1S0 pounds and was 33 years of age. The trial devel. oped Falletto was in need of money and went to Levins store for the pur pose of robbery. He admitted the kill ing but said that his victim had at tackled him with a knife which he took away from him and used for self de- fense