Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
LITTLE TIME Is WASTED
Executions Accomplished in Hour
and Sixteen Minutes.
ITALIAN FALLS IN A FAINT
Becomes Unconscious as Straps Are
Adjusted-Negro Walks
Up Smilingly.

OSS1N1NG. n. Y. August 12.-Seven
murderers were taken from their cells
in Sing Sing prison this morning and
put to death ~ 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 method of capital pun
ishnent.
The six Italians and one negro electro
cuted this morning went to their deaths
quietly and the executions We're accom-
plished within an hour and sixteen min
utes. The condemned were put to death
in the following order:
John w. Collins, Lorenza L. Cali, Saliva
tore De Marco, Filepo De Marco, Angelo
Giusto, Vincenzo Coma and Joseph Fer
rome.
Prison guards expected that Ferrone
might put up fight on his way to the
execution chamber, but he walked meek
ly to the chair.
Coma tainted as the straps were being
adjusted about his body. He walked to
the chair white-faced and trembling and.
as he kissed the crucifiX, when the straps
were placed about his body, he fell over
Imply in a dead faint. The cap was
affixed quickly. and the current sent
through his body.
Prays at the Chair.
All the prisoners, with the exception of
Collins, walked to the death chamber
protesting their innocence Collins came
in smiling and seemingly happy and did
not deny his guilt. He prayed on his
knees at the chair for a minute before
he was executed.
Giusto. Coma. Cali and the two De
Marcos were convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Mary Hall. wife of Henry Hall, a
superintendent of construction on the
Croton aqueduct in a lonely farmhouse
at Grifin'S Corners in West Chester
county, in November. 1911, Santa Znaza,
the sixth member of the gang of assas-
sins. was electrocuted July 8. after he
had confessed in 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 pretext of buying milk.
Killed Policeman.
John w. Collins. : Florida negro. shot
and killed Michael Lynch, a New York city
policeman. on the morning of July 1, 1911,
Collins had been drinking and had fired
revolver out of the window of his apart
ment in the section of New York known
as ''Helrs Kitchen
Officer Lynch heard the shots and went
to investigate. When he knocked at the
door Collins opened it and fired He ap-
pealed to the governor to commute his
sentence to life Imprisonment, claiming
he was so intoxicated at the time that
he was unaware of what he was doing.
and asserting that he had never known
the officer. The governor refused to in
terfere
Joseph Ferrone killed his wife, Kate,
in New York city October -. 1911. Mrs.
Ferrone had refused to live with her hus-
band because of ill-treatment, she
claimed. but she was induced TO return
from Philadelphia. where she was living,
few days before the crime was COM
mitted. on Ferrone's plea that their child
was i'll in a hospital Friends endeavored
unsuccessfully to bring about a recon
ciliation. and the murder followed. The
woman's body. with her throat slashed
was found in the street.
Attacked Member Of Jury.
When convicted Ferrone attacked a
juryman, and attempted to kill himself
| by cutting his throat with a piece of bro.
ken watch rystal. When taken before
Judge Foster for sentence the murder
er's hands and feet were shackled to pre-
vent further violence. On the way to the
deathhouse at Sing Sing Ferrono made a
second attempt at suicide by trying to
swallow Jagged piece of tin.