New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-02
Two Are Put to
Death lin Chair,
One Reprieved
15.Day Delay Is Granted
McNally After He Is
Clad in Death Suit; Says
He Had Never Lost Hope
Others Stoical at Death
Ciordano Maintains His In
nocence to Last; Van Reed
Merely Says ssCood.by"

Merely Says COOdsby"
three men were to have died in the
.,ssfric chair at Sing Sing last night.
,rra hours before the time Of execu-
,;Sn one Of them, Edward J.. McNally,
ssss reprieved, and his condemned COM
rspions Joined in the cheers that rang
through the death house on announce
snens of the good news. Before mid
n;rht they were dead.
McNally. twenty-five years old, whose
rrxc1rccution was set for IL o'clock,
received fifteen-day reprieve two
march to the electric chair. Anrelo
f;iordanc. who early yesterday tried to
commit suicide, and Harry Van Reed.
10th condemned to die at the same time.
were electrocuted at the appcinted hour
They marched to the chair stocally.
Ciordano entered the death chamber
at l1.e4. He was pronounced dead at
ff:oq. His last words were:
"Goodby, boys l want the world
"a know | died an innocent man."
Father Cashin conducted Giordano
to the door of the execution chamber
Giordano repeated prayers after the
priest.
Van Reed began his walk to the
chair at 11:14 and was pronounced
dead at 1921. He was pale but calm
and walked with firm step. "Goodby,
boys" was his final greeting to the
men in the death house.
McNally was dressed in his death
suit when word Of the reprieve was
brought to him by guard from War
den Lawess office. The guard handed it
70 the Rev. Father Cashin, who was
praying with McNally. The priest
nasded it to the condemned man, who
rose from his knees, read the warden's
note, and said:
father, this is the best news ever
expect to receive in this world"
Farewell Note Destroyed
. Ten minutes after the reprievs had
beer. handed him Mentally was out of
his death clothes and had resumed Mis-
ordinary prison attire. He had written
farewell note 30 his wife. who had
left the prison an hour before. This
note he destroyed.
McNally later said that he had all
along expected the Governor would take
some action in his case as he did not
actually commit the murder for which
be was convicted. He said his associ-
ates in the crime, Eppoucci and Palbucci,
would bear him out in the statement
that he did NOT know murder was to be
done, He had bargained only for par
ticipation in a robbery, he said.
Mrs. McNally, wife of the reprieved
man, left Sing Sing late in the evening,
after praying with her husband and
bidding him farewell. She bade hin,
keep mis- courage until the end, be-
cause she believed her prayers in his
aehalf would be answered. Later, when
NAN nl1x i ~
prieve at the home of Attorney William
Casey, 1lS Simonson Avenue. Clifton.
McNali. lawyer. she collapsed. Re-
covering, Mrs. McNally said her faith
in American justice had never wavered.
TelephOned From Albany
The reprieve was telephoned from
Albany by Ward Smith, secretary to
Governor Miller. The secretary said the
cider lad been issued by the acting
Goyernor
It was said last night that the re-
pr:eya was granted because Supreme
Court Justice McCrate, in Brooklyn,
Yesterday issued an order to show
cause, returnable September 6, why
McNally should not have new trial.
Earlier in the day Governor Miller had
notified Attorney Casey that he would
not interfere in the execution of
McNally. The court action was said
by Attorney Casey to have Influenced
the later decision.
McNally's mother and sister visited
the prison with his wife. All three
were IN state of collapse when they
left. Mrs. McNally, the mother, said
she feared her son was doomed. Later,
when informed that he had been given
new lease of life, she fell on her
knees in prayer
Glordano, forty-four years old, had
been fixture in the death house. He
was serving his fortieth month at the
time Of execution. During his stay in
the lighthouse Giordano had said
demned men as they went to the chair.
He was hopeful to the last that some
tning would happen to stay his execu-
tlon. Giordano was convicted of hav-
ing ordered Giuseppe Varazanno shot
70 death in gamblers feud.
Regular Prison Fare 49,
Van Reed, after being discharged
from the army, in which he had served
overseas, was thirty-four years old.
he entered the tailor shop of Max
Aabinowitz, in West Thirty-fourth
Street, Manhattan, shot the old man to
death and wounded his wife.
For their last meal the three men
chose the regular prison bill Of fare
Wheli Informed that they might have
anything they chose to call for under
. the law, Giordano said there were
things he would like to have under the
law, bat not food. The other two men
told the deputy warden they were sat-
lshed with the prison meals. Ns
"a short TINA baf0re hic ovaNrt;Ny>
Van Reed told Warden Lawes he rel:
GREETED having to die. principally be-