Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-07
IA SLAYERS TO
DIEATCHICAGO
WITHIN 2DAYS
Deputy Sheriff Is Preparing
Moses for Red Letter
Hanging Day.
BAN PRISONERS SHOW

CHICAGO, Oct. THE death cell IN
the old Cook County Jail here has sent
many men to the nnal earthly expistion
of crimes since the execution Of John
Stone on July 10, 1910, but Oct. II and
10 are destined to be red letter days
in the institutions history. Oct Il.
eight men, several of them members of
the notorious Cardanella gang, will die
at the ends of ropes and the followin 6
day. Oct. Is. Arthur Maensel and Frank
zagler will be executed.
Many men, some OF them guilty and
others who later were found to have paid
for another's crime. have gone to their
deaths in the Cook County Jail since
John Stones time, but the nearest ap-
proach to the executions vnat will occur
Thursday and Friday of next week was
in 1912, when five men were executed In
-one day.
One hundred feet of italian hemp will
be used for each hanging, 1000 feet in
all for the ten men.
The hundred feet for each individual
IS divided into three parts, one part
for a 'sandbag test" the second for the
actual hanging and the third for emer-
gency.
One Of the prisoners who will be
hanged Oct. Is, Arthur Haensel, has
been three times reprieved, the first
coming just as he mounted the gal1ows'
steps.
Haensel, through his attorney, an
nounced that he desires either to be ex-
ecuted or to have his sentence committed.
He doesn't want TO run the risk" Of
another reprieve.
Haensel's case-the murder Of his wife
first received attention through efforts
Of various Illinois posts OF the American
Legion attempting TO secure commuta-
tion Of his sentence.
Haensel- has been a guest" Of the
county since Feb. 4, 1912
Zagler, who will go TO his death short
II after Haensers execution, also was
convicted OF murder. On Oct II, sam
Cardinella, head Of the gang which has
borne his name for three years and which
has been the subject Of many searches
for suspected killers, will be the first
man to stand on the trap.
TWO CONVICTED IN
GANG FOR STAYING.
After him will come two other mem
bers of the gang, both convicted of the
murder OF a north side grocer, who was
Cd24eQ 10 the 'front.' OF MS store and elOt
dead as he appeared In the entrance and
implicated in a score OF other gang
killings and wars.
The other FIVE cases are men whose
trials and conviction received little at
tention from the public.
Most of them have been connected
with two or three affairs that ended
in bloodshed.
The wholesale hangings OF the com
ing week also are receiving earnest at
tention from other prisoners in the Cook
County Jail.
Two hundred Of them witnessed the
hanging of Rapail Durage last fall as an
example on the order Of Sheriff Charles
W. Peters.
These public hangings" were the sub
Ject Of much discussion at the time and
the question Of whether the prisoners will
have another example" set before them
has arisen, although not officially.
Sheriff Peters has been warned not to
hold any more executions for the benefit
Of prisoners at the Jail.
Chief Deputy Sheriff H. c. W. Lauben-
heimer is busy preparing for the events"
of Thursday and Friday.
There is 1000 feet Of hemp to be pur-
chased and Laubenheimer anticipates
difficulty In securing so large an amount.
He will place his order today or t0mor-
row find then will begin the construction
Of the one gallows TO be used for the ten
executions.