Evening star., 1928-06-20
DOOMED TR|OFACE
CHAIR STILL HOPING
None of Busch Siayers Has
Yet Given Up-ProCtor
Sees Family.

Nicholas Lee Eagles. John Cline
Proctor and Samuel Moreno are SPEND
ing their next to the last day on earth
at the District jail still hoping.
With their last chance TO escape
death in the electric chair Friday morn
ing apparently gone, none of the three
condemned has given way to despair
of some miraculous intervention at the
last moment.
Proctor especially clings stubbornly
to the hope that some step yet remains
to be taken to save him. Throughout
the morning the l9-year-old murderer
was engaged in conferences with his
mother, Mrs. Roberta Randall of Joplin,
Va: his sweetheart. Miss Leila Lauder
Johnson. zoos F street; his spiritual
adviser. Rev. George w. Dow, director
of the Episcopal City Mission, and his
brother. Ralph c. Proctor Of New YORK
Family Has Hope.
Members of the family themselves
still have some hope, according to the
brother and last-minute plans to defer
the execution will be made this after
noon at a conference between the con-
demned man, his mother and his at
torney, Wilton j. Lambert. Other visit
ors expected this afternoon, according
to Proctor's brother, are another broth
er, Walter Proctor of Baltimore, at
whose home the condemned man was
arrested, and a sister. Mrs. Viola
Proctor Eagles. who also is a SiSter-in-
law of Nicholas Lee Eagles.
Eagles made one unsuccessful move
to help himself today by appealing 10
Reva Cooper, now an inmate of the
Ivakota Farms School. near Fairfax,
Va. She was present on the night
the trio started out on their highway
rot berry program, ending in the shoot
ing of Policeman Busch. Eagles asked
her to give q statement as to what she
saw before they left.
Girl Fails to Aid.
Eagles was In the hopes that she
would say Proctor possessed a gun,
thereby contradicting the steadfast neg
ative statements of the condemned
youth, and giving him an opportunity
Ia make further statements that he
maintains would tend TO show he did
not kill the policeman, The Cooper
girl, who is serving q sentence for
completely with Eagles IN highway
robbery in Virginia q few days before
the murder was unable tc shed any
light on this question. The appeal was
made through Louis ID. Tanenbaum, at
torney for Eagles.
Eagles was without visitors this morn
ing except for Rabbi Rosenbloom, his
spiritual adviser, Moreno was visited at
z am. by Rev. Father NeSter OF Holy
Comforter Church, who administered
holy communion. He later was visited
by his mother and also by his sister
from Providence Hospital.
Visitors Create Tension.
Sobbing relatives of the condemned
men are helping bring about an In
creaSingly tense atmosphere at the JAIL,
where no official notification has been
received from the Department OF Justice
that the appeal for clemeney has
been turned down by President Coolidge,
Such notification Is not necessary. how
ever, according 10 Maj w. l., Peake,
who will have charge of the executions,
The three partook OF the customary
breakfast. consisting of putfed rice and
milk, bread and butter, frankturterS
and coffee. this morning. The constant
succession Of visitors is helping them
keep their minds OF the ordeal ahead,
The order of the execution has not
been determined upon Maj Peake said.
and will depend upon the condition OF
the men Friday morning.