Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-31
TWO SPECIFICATIONS IN
 NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON

Trenton, N. J., Aug. S0 = Frank J. James and Raymond W. Schuck, both of Camden, N. J., were electrocuted at the state prison here tonight for the mur- der of David s. Paul, Camden bank messenger. James was put to death at s. 15 o'clock and Schuck a few minutes later,
 James was pronounced dead at S.20, after receiving three shocks of 1,S00 volts and l2 amperes. Schuck entered the chair at S22 and was pronounced dead by. attending physicians at $50. lie received three shocks of 1,S00 volts and 15 amperes.
 James had to be carried into the death chamber. His eyes were closed and he was twitching nervous1y, while prison attendants lifted him into the chair.
 Schuck entered the death chamber un- supported and with his head up. He glanced around him at the witnesses with smile on his face.
 Neither man made any statement in the death chamber
 For about fifteen minutes before the execution, song service was held by Reverend Charies H. Elder, Protestant prison chaplain, and Reverend J. W. Lee, Methodist clergyman of this city. One sing which the condemned men sang with especial ferver was joined in by the other four men in the death house awaiting execution. It was said this was the first time song service has been held here at time so near an execution.
 During the executions large crowd gathered outside the prison walls, necessitating the services of the police force of two districts to drive them away.
 1 Story of the Crime. 1 Camden, N. J., Aug SO.-The murder 1 of David S. Paul, a Camden bank mes- senger, for which Frank J. James and | Raymond W. Schuck were put to death 1 in the electric chair at Trenton tonight caused more widespread interest than 1 any crime in south Jersey for wears l Throughout the trials sensa tional de velopments came frequently, unfolding like. carefully constructed detective story.
 Paul disappeared on October 5, 1920 1 with $40, 1000 in cash and $3O,0Oo in l checks which he was taking from the bank which employed him here to Phil l adelphia for deposit. Eleven days later his body, with the skull crushed was found in a shallow grave in the New Jersey pine belt, near Tabernacle, by l hunters.
 Suspicion fe,l upon the two men whc | were electrocuted tonight because of the lavishness with which they were spend 1 ing money, and their revels at a bung- allow near Clementon, which figured con. 1 spicuously in testimony at the trial as '1ollypop cottages" It was not unti l November, however, that James was ac. | cused of Paul's murder. cShuck was ar rested on the following day. l Both men were said to have made oon- l fessions on November r. They were granted separate trials and found gull ty of murder in the first degree. Tes timony, although conflicting, indicated that the elderly bank messenger hac been invited to ride to the fiery by, tht two men and was brutally assaulted
 that he pleaded for his life, and ever offered to give up the money if the,
 would spare him. Each accused tn
 other of striking the blow which final! caused his death.
 Burial of the loot in the family p O
 of one of the men at a cemetery wa gone into exhaustively.
 The nnurderers were sentenced to di
 the week of April 10 but appeals stayed
 execution ofthe sentences. New trial however, were denied by the court o
 errors.
 Schuck maintained his innocence t
 the last, no later than this mornini sending his father telegram, urgini
 him to fight to the last and saying
 Tn God I have faith, and if tn
 worst comes, I die an innocent man."