The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-13
ELECTRIC CHAIR
CLAIMS Sc We n
Sing Sing Breaks One Days
Record i'll Putting Muir
dercrs to Death.
LITTLE TIME is CONSUMED
In an Hour and Sixteen Minutes
CHASTITY Work Is
Completed.

ossining. y. y, Angus, l2.-seven
mNrHerers were taken from their cell.
in sins Sing prison this morning and
Put TO death ia the electric chair.
RUS Is the largest number OF Grim =
nais 10 suffer the death penalty by
electricity on any one day since tho
electric chair was adopted as a method
Of capital punishment
nc siA Italians ana one negro cleo
trocutei this morning went to their
ceaths quietly, and the executions were
accomplished within an hour and six
teen minutes. The Condemned were
put 10 death n tho following order.
John W collins Lorenza L can.
salvatore be Marco Filepo De Marco,
Angelo Giusto, Vincenzo Coma and
Joseph Ferrone.
Prison guards expected that Fcrrone
"isnt put up fight on his way TO the
oFeeutlon chamber hut he walked
Meekiy 10 tho chair.
Coma tainted as the straps were
being adjusted about mis- body. fo
walked 10 the chair white-faced ana
trembling and, as he kissed thu cruel
fN, when the straps We're placed about
ms BODY. he fell over Imply in dead
ram, The cap was AFFIXED quickly.
ana the current sent through MIS-
body.
Prnyn at the Chair.
Al the prisoners. with the exccp-
ton or 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 hi. knees at the chair for a
minute before ne was executed
Glusto, Coma. Cal and the two De
Marcos were convicted OF the murder
~ Mrs Mary Hail. wife OF Henry Hall,
superintendent OF construction on the
croton aqueluct IN lonely farm
house At Grifin's Corners. in West
Chester County In November. 1911.
santa Znaza the siNth member OF the
gang OF assasins. was electrocuted July
a. after he had confessed tn letter
Mrs. Hall 20 death. The others were
10 Governor Din that he had stabbed
convicted as participants in tho crime.
The men gained access to the house
on the prete1t Of buying milk
Killed Policeman
John W. Collins. Florida negro.
YORK City policeman. on the morning
shot and KILLED Michael Lynch. New
OF July !. 1911 Collins had been driuk-
ing and had nred revolver out OF
The window % his apartment In the
scct'pn 90 New York known as "Hens
Kitchen
omcer Lynch heard tho shots and
went 20 Investigate. when Ne Knocked
tired
JIG appealed to the Governor TO com
mute his sentence to life Imprisonment.
claiming Ae was SO Intoxicated a, the
iime that be was unaware OF ,vha, he
Was doing and asserting tina; lie had
never known tho officer. The Governor
refused - interfere.
Joseph ferrunc Killed his vie. Kate.
in Sew York ci,y. October -. 1911.
Mrs Ferronc had refused to live win
n,r husband because % in treatment.
she claimed. hlt she was Induced 70 re-
turn from philadelphia where she was
living. few days before the crime
MS committed on Ferrone's plea tina,
their ehiiH was III IN a hospital Friends
eudeavorod unspccossfuliy to bring
about a reconciliation and the murder
followed The womans body. Win
her throat slashed. was found in the
street
When convicted Ferrone attacked n
jnryman and attempted to XIII hlmsei,
b. eating his throat with a piece OF