Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-20
THREE DIE IN CHAIR
Murderers Are EIectrocuted at
0ssining.
ALL OVER IN 20 MINUTES
Coachman Is Put to Death for
Strangling Nurse.
NEGRO KILLED HALF-BROTHER
italian Cut Throat Of Man Eighty
Nine, But Claimed Self
Defense.
KILLED HALF-BROTHER

OSS1NING, N. Y. November 2O.-Three
murderers were led to the death chamber
In Sing Sing prison today and put to
death by electricity just as dawn began to
brighten the skies above the Westminster
hills. They were Pietro Faletto of Port
Chester, Frank Schermerhorn of Mill
brook. near Poughkeepsie, and Bert l..
Brown of Rye. They went to the chair in
that order. The executions began at 5:2S
o'clock and lasted only twenty-three
minutes. 1t was the first triple electro
cution at Sing Sing since the electric cur
rent superseded the gallows in New York.
Twenty years ago four murderers paid
the death penaly at one time by hanging.
All three executions today proceeded
without incident or delay. The execu-
toner turned the switch with Faletto in
the chair at 5:2s and two minutes later
the Italian was pronounced dead. A sin
gle contact of the 1.sOO volts had been
enough. The other two showed more
resistance and three contacts were neces-
sary in each case With Schermerhol n
the current was turned on at 5:34 and the
last contact was over al $40. Three
minutes later Brown had been strapped
to the electrodes and the current was
coursing through his body The three
Dol. The same voltage was used in each
case.
Slayer of Nurse.
OF the three crimes expiated today
Schermerhorn's attracted the most no.
tice The night of January Ii, 1910
Sarah Brymer, nurse, employed by
Barnes Compton, at Millbrook. was
found dead in the Compton home under
circumstances which indicated that she
had been criminally assaulted and
strangled. Schermerhorn. the family
coachman, twenty-five years of age, and
married, was arrested on suspicion and
subsequently convicted on circumstantial
evidence. On the day after the crime
officers searching the coachmans house
found him lying under bed with his
throat cut. but he soon recovered. A
quantity Of silverware stolen from the
Compton house was found In chimney
fue in the coachmans house. Schermer-
horn tried to throw suspicion upon a
Japanese servant, but he finally admit
Ted the crime.
Bert F. Brown, who was a negro, killed
William Brown, his half brother, in the
village of Rye May q, 1910 Brown had
been engaged with others early in the
evening in a game of craps in saloon
and William had won all the money.
William left before the others did, and
went home. Bert, with two companions,
went to the Brown home later and asked
for his mother William opened the door.
and as he did SO Bert fired two shots, one
of which killed his half brother. The de-
PENDANT admitted firing the fatal shot but
commended he had done so in self-defense.
Cut Old Mans Throat.
Pietro Faletto cut Louis Levine's throat
in Levine's store in Port Chester August
13. 1909 The victim was eighty-nine
years of age and weighed scarcely 100
pounds, while Faletto was but thirty
three years old and weighed $50. The
trial developed that Faletto was in need
of money and went to Levines store for
the purpose OF robbery. He admitted the
killing, but said that Levine had attacked
him with a knife, which he took away
from him and used for purposes of self