Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-12
SLAYERo
DIE IN ELECTRIC
CHAIR IN AN HOUR
Largest Number to
Suffer Penalty in
One Day.
ALL BUT ONE MEET DEATH
PROTESTING INNOCENCE
Five Were Condemned for Sin
gle Atrocoius Murder Of
croton Woman.

OSSINING. N. " Aug. 12.-Seven
murderers were taken from their cells
in Sing Sing prison today and put to
death in the electric chair. This Is
the largest number of criminals to
suffer the death penalty by electricity
on any one day since the electric
chair was adopted as a method of
capital punishment, The six Italians
and n negro ~electrocuted this morn
ing went to their deaths quietly and
the executions were accomplished in
a little oyer an hour. The con
demned men were put to death in
the following order:
John w. Collins, Lorenzo l.. Cali,
Salvatore de Marco. Filepo de Marco,
Angelo Guisto. yincenzo Coma and
Joseph Ferrone.
Prison guards expected that Fer
rome might put. up a fight on his way
to the execution chamber. but he
walked meekly to the chair.
Paints In Chair.
Coma tainted as the straps were be-
ing adjusted about his body. He
walked to the chair white-faced and
trembling and as he kissed the crucifx
when the straps were being placed
about his body he fell over Imply in
a dead faint. The cap was affixed
quickly and the current sent through
his body.
All the prisoners with the excep-
ton of Collins walked into the death
chamber protesting their innocence.
Collins came In smiling and seeming
ly happy and did not deny his guilt.
He prayed or his knees at the chair
for a minute before he was executed.
Guisto, Coma, Cali and the two de
Marcos were convicted of the MUIR
der of Mrs. Mary Hall, wife of Henry
Hall. a superintendent of construc-
ton ON the Croton Aqueduct in a
lonely farm house at Griffin's Cor
ners in Westminster County on No
vember 8. 1911. Santa Znaza, the sixth
member of the band of assassips, was
e~iectrocuted July s after he had con-
fessed In a letter to essseffi6fATfx
that he had stabbed Mrs. Hall to
death. The others were convicted as
participants in the crime. The men
gained access to the house. on the
pretext of buying milk.
Slew P~olicemans
John w. Collins. a young Florida
negro. shot III killed Michael Lynch,
a New York city policeman, on the
morning of July /, 1911. Collins had
been drinking and fired a revolver
out of the window of his apartment
in the section of New York known
as "HeH's Kitchen" Officer Lynch
heard the shots and went to ~investi-
gate. When he knocked at the door
Collins opened 1t and fired. He ap-
pealed to Governor Dix to commute
his sentence to life Imprisonment,
claiming he was so intoxicated at the
time that he. was of what
he was doing, and asserting that he
had never known the officer. The
governor refused to interfere.
Joseph Ferrone killed his wife
Kate in New York city on October
"a, 1911. Mrs. Ferrone had refused
to live with her husband becausesof
ill-treatment, she claimed, but she
was induced to return from P%hiladel-
phia, where she was living, a few
days before the crime was commit
ted, on Ferrone's plea that their
child was Ill in a hospital. Friends
endeayored unsuccessfully to bring
about a reconciliation and the muir
der followed. The woman's body
with her throat slashed was found
in the street.