Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-08-13
SLAYfRS
Sent TO CHAIR
. AT sing sing
Largest Number Of Grimm.
ais to Suffer Death Penal.
ty Since Electrocution
Was Adopted.

ossining. N. Y, Aug. 12.-seven
nurderers were taken from their cell,
N sing Sing prison this morning and
put to death in the electric chair, Thi,
is the largest number Of criminals "a
suner the death penalty by electricity
on any one day since the electric
cha1r was adopted as a method 81
capital punishment Six Italians and
one negro went to their deaths Quick.
~ and the executions were accom-.
plished within an hour and sixteen
minutes.
The condemned were put to death
In the following order:
John w. Collins, Lorenzo Cali, saliva.
tore De Marco, Filepo De Marco.
Angelo Giusto. vincenzo Coma and
Joseph Ferrone.
Prison guards expected that Ferrone
might put up fight on his way to the
execution chamber, but he walked
meekly to the chair.
Coma tainted as the straps were be.
ing adjusted. He walked to the chair
white faced and trembling and as he
kissed the crucifix when the straps
were being placed about his body he
1eil over Imply In dead faint.
Only Ono Protested Innocence.
All the prisoners with the excep.
ton OF Collins walked into the death
chamber protesting their innocence.
Collins came In smiling and seem.
llngly happy and did not deny hiS
guilt He prayed on his knees at the
chair for q minute before he was ex.
ecuted. e, Z /. nj
Giusto. Coma. Call and the two Ds
lMarcosk116lszaeCnS4ea2 sselssSke murder
lot Mrs. Mary Hall. wife OF Henry Hall.
superintendent OF construction on
the Croton aqueduct IN lonely farm
house on Griffin corners In West .Ches.
ter county on Nov. s. 1911. Santa
Znaza. the sixth member OF the band
OF assassins was electrocuted July 8,
after he had confessed in a letter to
Gov. Dix 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 pre-.
text of buying milk.
John W. Collins, young Florida
negro, shot and killed Michael Lynch
q New York City policeman on the
morning OF July 1. 1911. Collins had
been drinking and fired revolver out
Of the window Of his apartment In tho
section Of New York known as "Hell's
Kitchen" Offlcer Lynch heard the shots
and went to investigate. When he
knocked at the door Collins opened It
and fired. He appealed to Gov. Dix
to commute his sentence to life I'm
prisonment claiming he was SO intox.-
Gated at the time that he was un-
aware OF what he was doing, and as
serting that he had never known the
Office The governor refused to
interfere.
One Tried Repeatedly to End Life.
Joseph Ferrone killed his wife
Kate. in New, York City on Oct. "a.
1911 Mrs. Fefrone had refused to live
with her husband because OF Ill
treatment she claimed. but she was
induced to return from Philadelphia,
where she was living few days be-
fore the crime was committed, on
Ferrone's plea that their child was III
in hospital. Friends endeavored I'M
successfully to bring about recon-
Iciliation and the murder followed.
Inc woman fDOdy Win ner throat
slashed was found In the street. When
convicted Ferrone attacked juryman
and attempted to kill himself by cut
ting his throat with piece OF broken
watch crystal. When taken before
Judge Foster for sentence the MUIR
derer's hands and feet were shackled
to prevent further violence. On the
way to the death house at Sing Sing
Ferrone made second attempt at
suicide by trying to swallow a jagged
piece Of tin.