Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-01-28
ARNOLD
DIES ON
CALL0WS
Makes Startling Request
That Rope Be Divided
Among Jurors.
PLEAS FOR SAVER
Companion Condemned to
Be Executed for Same
Crime Next Week.

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Jan. %.
Ray Arnald, 90 year old member
of respected Sacramento family,
was hanged here today for compile
ity in the killing of japanese wo-
man at Penryn, Cal.
The trap was sprung at 10:06 a. N.
Physicians pronounced Arnold dead
at 1920 p.
Arnold went bravcly to his doom.
Before beginning the professional
Of death from his cell to the death
chamber he shook hands with War
den j. j. Smith and said:
81 m not afraid to go. I won t
break down. Goodbye. -
The condemned man smoked Gig
arettes necessarily and flicked one
away Just before he entered the
narrow death chamber, where APP
proximatelv 40 spectators were gath
cred to watch the hanging.
Those among the spectators who
knew Arnold remarked at his ex-
IRENE pallor from long months of
prison confinement, as he mounted
the Is steps to the top of the seat
fold
81 am innocent. Please cut this
moose into thirteen pieces and give
one to each juror and the judge who
convicted me- Arnold announced
from the gallows just before the
guard strapped his legs together.
He swayed slightly as the black
cap was placed over his head and
the moose adjustcr below one ear.
Warden Smith raised his hand to
signal the executioner and the trap
sprung.
Leaves Letter
Arnold left letter addressed to
Governor Young in which he made a
plea for the life of his comrade,
Edward Sayer, doomed to die next
Friday.
The body after being cut down
was turned over to relatives in Sac
ramentO.
Arnold did not actually kill any
one. He waited in an automobile
while his comrades, Saycr and Ar
thur H. Muller, attempted to rob 4
Japanese store at Pcnryn, Novcm-
Der 5, 1924.
When Mrs. Tamae Ninomeya,
wife of the proprietor, attempted to
flee, Muller shot her in the back,
killing her instantly.
The three men escaped, parted
company, and the next day Muller
committed suicide in San Francisco.
In their trial before a Placer
county jury Arnold and Savcr relied
on an alibi, producing several wit
nesses to prove they could not hav"
been in Penryn when the murder oc-
cured.
They were convicted in December
and sentenced by Judge j. b. Lands
to hang. During the intervening
two wears the case twice went TO
the supreme court where the appeal
was denied, both for reversal of the
verdict and a second hearing.
Arnold awakened early and chat
ted cheerfully with the guards on
the death watch.
m not afraid to CO. he de
clared 81 m at peace with the
world. l would gladly give my hte
if I thought it would aid in putting
an end to capital punishment. y
Arnold devoured breakfast of
pork chops, scrambled eggs, toast
and coffee.
Last night, Arnold's father, John
II. Arnold, visited his son until -?
o clock. counselling with regard to
the last minute effort to obtain a
writ of habeas corpus or writ OF
prohibition to prevent carrying out
the order of execution.
Warden J. j. Smith permitted
Saver to occupy the same cell with
Arnold yesterday afternoon. and the
two men spent the time talking. :,
A phonograph just outside the ecu
was played constantly, at Arnold s
request. One of his first orders to-
dav after awakening, was to "turn
on the music.