The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-04-22
THREE DIE ON GALLONS
Triple Hanging In Chicago
This Morning
COLLAPSE OF BAD MAN
CardineIla, Master Mind %
Gang, Had To Be Carried
To Platform

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l
jackson, Miss, April 15-Two
convicted murders today were
scheduled to pay the death penal.
ty for their deeds. Jesse Watts,
sentenced to die for the murder
of Or. D. S. Alverson, prominent
vicksburo physician, was to be
hanged at Port Gibson. Lester
Candy twenty -four, of Waynss-
toro, father of two small children
was to hang for killing Cleveland
Rowe, former school mate with
robbery intent. -
Chicago, April 15.-Sam Cardin.
ella, master mind Oh - gang OF
thieves and murderers' and Joseph
Costanzo and Salvatore Ferrera,
convicted of numbering fellow
countryman. were hanged here to-
day. TIL e triple hanging vas
a last minute arrangement, decided
upon when Cardinella broke down
on learning that Antonio Lopez, who
was to have been executed with him
had been reprieved last night by
Governor Small. The drop fell for
Cardinella at 1925 a. m.
Hope of the sheriff's office that
the presence Of the other two would
serve to brace up Cardinella, were
vain. The self boasted bad man"
collapsed completely when he reach
ed the gallows and it was necessary
to carry him to the platform and
strap him in a chair so that the
moose might be adjusted.
Cardineila Breaks Down.
Chicago, April 15.-Sam Carlinelle, al
legged leader of a. band of six whose
crimes he is said to have directed,
broke down early today. few hours be-
TWO of his band were hanged recently
and two others sentenced TO life i'm
prisonment. Cardinella was convicted OF
directing the murder of Andrew Bowman,
when Bowman was slain. From his
pool room. Cardinella Is said to have dir
ected crimes which included twenty muir
ings One of the band. Santo Orlando,
was found two years ago in the drain
age canal. his body riddled with bullets,
his place Was said to have We been en- taken ken
hanged on his nineteenth birthday re-
Gently.
Joseph Costanzo and Salvastore Fer
rera, the other two scheduled to follow
Cardinelia to the gallows at nine O'Clock
this morning were convicted with An
tonic Lopez of the murder OF A AM MIC
grocery. Lopez won a thirty-day re-
prieve last night from Governor Small.
Ferrera. sketched pictures and wrote
poetry in his last hours In the death
cell while Costanzo turned sullen and
gloomy when news Of Lopezs reprieve
arrived. Lopez had been entertaining
yard animals, saying he would go TO
the gallows as bravely as the game COCK
he initiated.
cardlnelIa Was Unconscious.
IL tod IN a
scaffold, his head swayed from side
to side and his eyes were closed
when the shroud was placed about
him. He apparently was unconscious.
A few minutes before. when the sher-
i'll entered the death cell to read the
death warrant, Cardinella tainted.
Ferrera and CostanZo, however. dis
played little emotion and walked TO
the scaffod unassisted.
When asked If they had anything
to say. Ferrera mumbled something
In Italian but his words We're inaudi-
BILE to the spectators.
Another Hanging In Illinois
Carmi, Ills, April 15-Frank Low
hone. convicted of the murder OF Max
Nottingham. a farmer, here two years
ago, was hanged publicly at 9:0o
o'clock this morning within fifty feet
of where the killing took place and
snort distance I-Ou lliS NOME, "hChC
his aged mother awaited the bringing
of his body.
Before going to the scaffold, Low
hone was baptised. He walked calm
" to the gallows. 81 am sorry, was
all he would say when asked II he had
any statement to make. 1t wes the
first execution held in White county
In a century and was witnessed by a
large crowd.
Crowds Gather at Jail.
Eerrera was pronounced dead In
thirteen minutes. AMI Constance in
fifteen minutes. Several hours before
the time set for the execution crowds
began to gather about the jail. Ex-
fra bailiffs md policemen were i'm
pressed to keep the crowd moving
According to Sheriff Peters, Car
dinella Is the second man in the his
tory OF Chicago hangings TO require
being carried to the Gallows.