Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-01-30
BANK ROBBE'RI
AND MURDERER
PUT TO DEATH.
Smiles as He is Strapped in
Electric Chair at Sing
Sing.

~ 49, 4--rL-.#' \. 3set - !
ossining. n. Y, Jan. 3o.-The body
murderer n bandit who was cleo
trocused in Sing Sing prison hate last
night for the murder of two officials
of a Brooklyn savings bank. in De-
cember,, 1918, will be buried in a To-
cal cemetery today. No one claimed
the body and the mystery surround
ing his parentage, which he had
solved.
An autopsy disclosed that the brain
9 of the youthful criminal was NOR
NAL n we'll developed.
Handy maintained his composure
. TO the last, smiling as he was
strapped to the chair and making a
brief oral statement to- the e warden
/ and witnesses just before life was
snuffed out.
!. AS he left the death house he call
ed out to his companions:
Good bye fellows! 1,alxays liked
! to Try everything once" !
The murderer gave three letters to
the warden, asked him to mail then
Z and keep the addresses secret.
: Hamby's History.
= (;orGca Fawcett Handy, the banett
< who to~daSSexpiated his crimes in the
4 t,eAath chair. was arrested In Tacoma,
, NASH, last June under the name Of
Jay H.. Al,an,'1 after Killing q >man
: there in a revolver fight. lie was
: later identified as one of tho two rob.
! pors who. on December s.. 1918, held
up the East Brooklyn Savings bank
! and, after killing two of it's employees,
X escaped in an automobile with $751;
AOcO. =
Extradited to New York and tried
I for this crime Handy stood revealed
= as 9-Self-cNnfaSSo6 norfieinnnf in five
& robbery Of thirteen banks and two
trains and many killings. He steadi-
: ~ refused to tell anything about his
fani y. He said he preferred to be
known as ALLAN" and that he was
born in 1893 in Alberta, Canada. He
declared his parents were dead and
that he had two brothers. whom he
! had not seen for five years. He said
he was aNco:lege graduate and had
specialized Sin psychology.
After Hamby's conviction here, his
attorney, against the prisoners wish
.Eos, appealed his case. He obtained
the appointment of a commission TO
determining the bandits sanity but the
.3figher 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
Francisco and other places. ATTIC:
the Brooklyn robbery, Handy said he
mot a girl in New York and that they
went successively to- Boston. Phila-
lie phia. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chi
'cago, California and Tacoma.
Il was surprised> the California po-
lice did not get me- he said. short
~ after being brought east t"Then in
Tacoma I got in that political row
with Bob Davis and Killed him.
Bob a a game fellow and I'm sor-
~ 1. shot him but 1 was afraid he
ri q G crniv,- "a }r4 vo1 <1, tI.A r
MAS all ready to beat it to Shanghai,
China, and now here I AMI"
Expected $4,000.
II expected to get $4,000 out Of
the brooklyn lob" he conhded.
the little we did get. This was be-
cause my partner did MOI carry out
my Instructions, I had ordered him
ia, jumprover the rail the minute we
entered the place but he was an ANA
teur and wasted too much time. 1t
Q took him about four minutes to pick
no what money we did get when it
should not. have taken more than u
minute" -.
Who was your partner in the
BROOKLYN robbery he was asked.
Il don't care to say. / don't want
to ilnplicate him. He is married and
/ think by this time has left the
SOuiilIS.s l AucL IlAIn HTSl III NOTlOik,
Va, q short time before the Brooklyn
Job" 4"=F
Handy said he had never had any
women accomplices in any Of his rob-
berries because they talk too much
The day he was brought to Sing Sing
the prisoner was asked what enter
est he had in life. He lighted a
cigarette and watched the match
burn itself down and go out before he
replied:
only interest I have is to see
that l spendSthe time from now until
| go to the electric chair in smok-
ing. reading and making myself COM
Portable. I know there is no posi-
BILE chance Of acquittal. l arn guilty
and that is all there is to it." At an
other time he said: Nothing ever
bothers me at ALL The sooner the
end comes the better. It's imma-
tcrial to me. I'd sooner have It all
over with than have this fuss. This
place is nice. Everything here Is
I very nice. There isn't anything
want that I haven't got here.
Judge Fawcett Of Brooklyn, who
Sentenced Handy. said he was the
worst criminal of 5000. who had
come before him in his entire career
on h bench. IIamby's philosophy
q life" was embodied in the follow
Ing statement he made just before
being sentenced to die:
f, 1T Is nothing for me to die because
am coming. back. It may take q
few years or it may take several
thousand years. Of course. but time
does not count.. Being brought into
his world is like being placed in 8
Class OF small children, with each
trying to compete with the other
Some Of us are successful and some
are not. AS for myself. I have
p GNlnked 80 a 2