The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-30
HAMBY, "W0RST CRIM|NAL,"P ,"PAYS
 DEATH PENALTY
Bandit-Murderer E!sctrocut- ed At Sing Sing Prison
 Last Night WAS GAME TO THE LAST Goodbye Fellows, I'll Try Anything Once,' He
 Tells Mates

OSSINING, N. Y., Jan. 30.-Gordon Fawcett Hamby, 26 year old bandit expiated his crimes in the death chair at Sing Sing prison last night
 None claimed Hamby's body and the mystery that surrounded his par entage will be buried with him in the prison cemetery plot.
 Hamby was game to the last. He smiled as the straps which bound him to the steel chair were adjusted and he sneered when the plates were placed on his head. As he left the death house in "Murderers' Row for the short walk to the death chamber Hamby called out to neighboring prisoners: Goodbye fellows, I al ways like to try everything once.'
 When told yesterday at noon that in conformity with the sentence that he he electrocuted during the week of January 26, Thursday night or early Friday morning had been chosi en by the prison warden, he said :: .'Fine business, and by,the way, dens send any clergyman to me"
 Hamby was arrested in Tacoma. Jay B. Allen,'' after killing man there in revolver fight. He was later identified as one of the two robbers who, on December 23, 1918, held up the East Brooklyn Savings Bank and, after killing two of it's employees, escaped in an automobile with $13.Oo0.
 Extradited to New York and tried for this crime Hamby stood revealed as self-confessed participant in the robbery of banks and trains and many killings. He steadily refused to tell anything about his family. He said he preferred to be known as Allen and that he was born in 1893 in Alberta, Canada. He declar- ed that his parents were dead and that he had two brothers whom he had not seen for five years He said he was college graduate and that he had specialized in psychology
 Had "GirI," He Said
 After Hamby's conviction here. his attorney, against the prisoners wish, appealed his case. He obtained the appointment Of a commission to de- termine the bandits sanity but the higher court affirmed the verdict and he was also found to be normal He freely admitted his crimes and said he was wanted in Chicago, San ,,la the Brooklyn robbery, Hamby said he met a girl in New York and that they went successively to Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Cal ifornia and Tacoma.
 q was surprised the California police did not get me" he said, short ly after being brought East. Then in Tacoma, I got into that political row with Bob Davis and killed him. Bob was game fellow and Pm sorry I shot him but I was afraid he was going to get me. After that l was all ready to beat it to Shanghai, China, and now here I am"
 ''I expected to get $50.000 out of the Brooklyn job" he confided. "and l was. greatly disappointed at the little we did get This was be cause my partner did not carry out my instructions. I had ordered him to jump oyer the rail the minute we entered the place but he was an am ateur and wante too much time. It took himi about four minutes to pick mp what money we did get when 1t should not have taken him more than a minute.'
 Who was your partner in the Brooklyn robbery?" he was asked.
 "I don't care to say. don't want to implicate him. He Is married and l think by this time he has left the country l met him first in Norfolk, vaa short time before the Brooklyn job"
 Hamby said he had never had any woman accomplioes in any Of his robber'es "because they talk too much" The dny he was brought to Sing Sing the nrisoner was asked what interest" he had in rfe. He