The sun., 1916-10-08
BUSINESS MEN FAIL
TO SAVE BAMBRICK
Slayer Of Policeman Dapping
Dies in Electric Chair
ut ST. q Sing.
INNOCENT" 10 THE LAST
Gov. Whitman Had Refused to
Commute Doomed Mans
Sentence.

Despite the all night efforts Of 243
bankers and other business men TO
save the life Of Thomas Bambrick,
slayer Of Policeman George DappinG.
the convicted man was put to death In
the electric chair at Sing Sing at 5:sb
o'clock yesterday morning. lie as
serted his innocence L. the last.
Dambrick's case was put before the
members Of the Industrial Finance Cor
poration by Thomas Mott Osborne in
n speech a, "A dinner In the Hotel Astor
on Friday night. Warden Osborne's
declaration that there was no doubs
Bambrlck was innocent aroused the
members. including Theodore y. Vail.
president of the American Telegraph
and Telephone Company Herbert l..
satterlec. Adolph Lewis)hn. Willard ID.
Straight. Edward y. wilder and the
Rev. Charles II. P~arkhurst. TO action.
and they tciegraphed and telephoned TO
Gov. Whitman and influential men at
Albany in tho hope Of securing a res
pitc for Bambrick so hat Gov. Whit
man might again examine the tcsti-
mony.
All VIII, called the executive mansion
by telephone received the reply that
Gov. Whitman could not be disturbed.
The Governor had previously issued a
statement that he had carefully con-
sldered the case and could mud no rea-
son for comnuting the sentence tn life
Imprisonment.
Convicts shaut FRr wells.
-. IL. I.., ,...tAANkfaR
Of innocence to Father william Cashin.
the prison chaplain. just before he was
led from his cell to the death chair.
As he stepped into the death chamber
Bambrick turned and called to the other
doomed men: "Good-by. boys" and
added, "Good-by. Mack"
The other condemned men n WILL
lam Mcnamara, who murdered a man
AT Tarrytown. shouted their farewells
before 'the little green door closed.
Bambrick then walked steadily to the
chair murmuring responses to the litany
Of the pri ST. Three shocks were neces-
eary, as after the first q connection be-
came loose. Two minutes after the cur
rent had been turned on Or. Thomas
Berry pronounced Banbrick dead.
The Mutual Welfare League will take
care OF Bambrick's body " his sister and
her husband d. not claim Il.
N"iAllis tou'''' 80
brick. issued a statement yesterday e.
which he expressed his firm belief tina,
the man was innocent. Mr.. karlin said
he favored the abolition Of capital un-
ishment and added that IL the STATE In
tends to continue its power OF life or
death over murderers the laws relating
to applications for new tria In capital
eases should he amended 80 as to per-
init the most thorough and searching in
curry.
Lawyer Tells Of vain Fight.
EN- the motion for a new tria. In the
Bambrlck case much could have been
1ev Hoped tending to indicate that there
was a serious question whether the de-
PENDANT was guilty OF the crime for
which he was convicted. but the statute
relating to applications for a new trial
with its limitations and restrictions
stood IN the way like a stone wall" Mr.
karlin said.
'when a few hours before Thomas
Bambrirk was to be led to the death
from Albany that the Governor had re-
fused to interfere In the matter I i'm.
plored the doomed man to tel, me
whether he was innocent or guilty. The
pathetic picture when he solemnly and
fervently proclaimed his innocence will
not soon fade from my memory and VIII
inspire me In working for the abolition
OF capital punishment"
Bambrick twice secured reprieve.
from the death sentence. once at the re.
quest OF Police Commissioner Woods
and once when "A convict who was help.
ing to fix the death chair broke dow
and shouted ne was innocent. He --as
convicted Of shooting Policen3 a Dap
ping ut a picnic Of the Tile McManus As.
ISOLATION at Manhattan Casino.
Governor Whitman refused yesterday
to discuss any phase Of the case.