Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-25
CHINESE ID BE PUT II DEATH
 IN GAS HOUSE
Tong Murderers to Be Test Victims of Nevada's New
 Method of Execution

CARSON CITY, New, Feb. 24.- The House of Creeping Death" is scheduled to have its first try-out be- tween April 16 and April 22.
 That is the time fixed for the exc cutiors of Hughie Sing and Gee Jon, murderers under Nevada's new state law providing for the killing by lethal gas of persons sentenced to death
 Unless the United States supreme court wills otherwise, these two Chin ese tong members will be led from murderers' row-where death watch already has been set over them-to become "test subjects for the worlds first lethal gas executions.
 In the meantime the prisoners wait with fatalistic calm, wholly unaware of the national attention hey are at- tracting. |"
 Legal Battle On.
 In the meantime, too. bitter legal battle has opened in Nevada to Stop the use of the lethal gas cage as means of capital punishment. Attor- neys will carry the fight to the high est courts.
 But since the Nevada legislature has voted the lethal gas cage the last word in humane execution" Govc.-
  directors are continuing with plans for Its construction and the deaths Of the test cases"
 As for Hughie Sing, 19. and etf,, Jon, 29, they merely know that they gre doomed to die. They have no conception of the scientific device, porn of the war, that may carry them to momentary fame as well as to death. They were convicted of tong murder.
 Hughie Sing, who attended Amerf- can schools but could not forget les sons in tong vengeance learned out side the classroom, talks freely.
 Gee Jon. known the length of the Pacific coast as killer" says noth- ing.
 "one Way Like Another.
 Hughie is more interested in the course of the courts than in the means of death if the courts fail.
 If must die, one way is about as bad as another to me-" he says.
 He can't comprehend what d lethal gas execution is.
 q know I have been sentenced to death, that is all," he says. ''I do not want to die, but what am to do?' The Iethal gas execution, popular when legalized by the legislature, has stirred up a public tempest since the day the test cases" for it were sem fenced.
 Thousands of protest letters are pouring in one state officials, charg- in, that iethal gas killing is ''innu- man." is cruel and unusual punish ment" and is ''the last word in re- fined torture"
 No plans have as yet been drawn fer the house of creeping death" that will kill Hughie and Gee. This is the theory of it, as Governor Boyle explained it to ne:
 Death House Described.
 A small concrete death house, abou' 5x7HS will be built on one corner of the prison yard. Through one wall pipe leads to a large gas tank.
 This pipe would be operated either by jet or plug. which would ce man ipulated by one of three wires. Three persons, to bo selected by lot, would pull tke individual wires, so none would know which had turned on the gas.
 On the opposite side of the death house would be an outlet pipe carry off tho gas after the execution.
 From the cente wall six witnesses would be able to watch the victim die. smcll easement window being provided for that parpose. The law says that this number of witnesses would be able to watch the victim die, small easement window being pro- viCed for that purpose. The law says