The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-13
SEVENEECUIIONS
|. IN SING SING LAST
| | HOUR, l6N|NUTES
Record Number Of Murderers Sent
to the Electric Chair in
Rapid Succession
ONLY ONE ADMITS GUILT
Five Were Implicated in Killing Of
One Woman; Another, a Neg
re Sho. a Policeman
ONLY ONE ADMITS GUILT

Ossining, N. Y. Aug II Seven
murderers were taken from thei.
cells in Sing Sing Prison this morn
ing and put to death in the electric
chair This is the largest number
Of criminals to suffer the Geath pan
atty by electricity on any one day
since the electric was adopted as
method of capital punishment Six
| Italians and one negro went to their
deaths and the execution was ac-
conplished in an hour and 16 min
| lutes.
The condemned men were put to
death In the following order: John
| w. Collins, Lorenzo H. Call, Saliva
tore de Marco, Filepo de Marco, An
gelo Giusto. Vineenzo Coma and JOS
eph Ferrone.
Prison guards expected that Fer
rome might put up fight on his
way to the execution chamber, but
ne walked meekly to the chair.
Coma tainted as the straps were
being adjusted. He walked to the
hair whitefaced and trembling and
Is he kissed the crucidx when tho
straps were being placed about his
body, he fell over Imply in faint.
Only One Admits Guilt.
All the prisoners with the excep-
tion' OF Collins walked into the
death chamber protesting their in
aocence. Collins came in smiling
md seemingly happy and did not
deny his guilt He prayed on hs
knees at the chair for minute be-
fore he was, executed
Giusto, Coma, Cali and the two
DeMarcos were convicted of the mur-
der OF Mrs. Mary Han, wife OF
Henry Hall, superintendent of
construction on the Croton aqueduct
in a lonely farmhouse at Griffin's
Corners, in West Chester County.
Nov 2, 1911. Santa zanza, the
sixth member OF the band OF assas-
sins, was eleetrocuted July after
he had confessed in letter to Goy.
Dix that he had stabbed Mrs. Hail
10 death. The others were convict
ed as participants II the crime. The
men gained access to the house on
the pretext of buying milk.
John W. Collins, young Florida
negro, shot and killed Michael
Lynch, New York City policeman,
on the morning of July /, 1911.
Collins had been drinking and fred
a revolver out of the window Of his
room in the section of New York
known as "Hells Kitchen" Police.
man 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 COM
mute his sentence to life imprison-
ment, asserting he was so intoxicat-
ed at the time that he was unaware
Of what he was doing and asserting
that he had never known the police
man. The Governor refused to in
terfere.
Wife Slayer in List.
Joseph Ferrone killed his wife,
Kate, in New York City Oct 81.
l1911. Mrs. Ferrone had refused to
| live with her husband because of III
treatment but she was induced TO
return from Philadelphia, where shs
was living, ON Ferrone's plea that
their child was i'll in hospital.
Friends endeavored unsuccess-
fully to bring about reconciliation
and the murder followed The wom-
ans body with her throat slashed.
was found in the street.
When convicted Ferrone attacked
iuryman and attempted to kill
himself by cutting his throat with
a piece of broken watch crystal.
When taken before Judge Foster for
sentence the murderer's hands and
feet were shackled to prevent fur
ther violence. On the way to the
death house at Sing Sing Ferrone
made a seconda attmept to end his
life BY trying to swallow Jagged
piece Of tin. =