Evening star., 1928-06-22
TRIO OF SLAYERS PAY DEATH
PENALTY FOR BUSCH MURDER
as the three murdercrs

the clergymen who remained with them
until the end.
h Eagles Warns Reporters.
Just a few minutes before the death
march started the five newspaper men
selected as official witnesses were ad-
mitted TO the death block They were
invited by Eagles To enter his cell where
he shook hands and bade each one
| farewell
Asked how he felt. Eagles replied
I'm all right, don't worry about me"
| He was asked II he wanted stimu-
liant to brace him for the ANAL ordeal,
but rejected the offer.
! Il don't want nothing to make me
feel good" he said.
| AS the newspaper men left. Eagles
came to the door Of his cell and said ::
the straight and narrow" He then
turned and went to the barred window
OF his little cell, where he stood look
| ing out. As the witnesses left he be-
gan to sing softly.
/ Moreno was rioncommittal He shook
| hands with the witnesses When asked
If he had anything more to say he
shook his head and replied, Nothing
more"
Both men expressed thanks for the
courtesy shown them by the Jail officials
and for the medical attention of DR..
| Nixon.
Last Stay Try Fails.
! Attorney Tannenbaum, representing
Eagles, after fruitless attempt to get
| q stay OF execution from Justice William
Hitz at his home last night, was at the
| courthouse this morning with what he
said was a different proposition than
the one submitted to the Justice then.
The lawyer interviewed Justice Bailey
who declined to act without consulta :
ton with Justice Hitz. Tannenhaum
waited until 10 minutes before 10. when
he left for the Jail He declined to
make public either of the propositions
hy which he hoped to delay the execu-
tions. Justice Hitz did not reach the
courthouse until 10 O'Clock.
A crowd Of several hundred thronged
the sidewalk In front OF the Jail while
the executions were in progress
Guards held back these morbidly
curious people from the Jail grounds
Outside the jail dog started howl
ing when the current was turned on 10
end Eagles life. The bowling con-
tinued curiousIy for the full two min
utes.
just outside the Jail door stood
Eagles brother, Arthur Eagles-~far
nearer collapse than the condemned
man himself There, too, waited Mo-
reno's aunt. the only member Of the
Moreno family present.
Bodies Removed.
The bodies OF the executed men were
taken frcm the jail about Is minutes
after their death, Eagles was taken &c
Danzansky'S undertaking establishment
1901 Fourteenth street. where funeral
services we're conducted this afternoon
at 2 o'clock by Rabbi Rosemblum. Ar
rangements have been made for his
burial In the Anacostia Jewish Gene
terry.
Proctors body was taken by A. ]
Schippert undertaken, 2008 PennSyl~
vania avenue. The funeral viii take
place IN Joplin. Va, at 2 o'clock sun
day afternoon II was expected the
body would leave this afternoon.
Morenos body was conveyed to the
! w. Warren Taltavull funeral parlors,
36i9 Fourteenth street, There 1t was
said that no arrangements were known
TO have been made for his burial.
Women who Suffer.
Yesterday afternoon 1t was the women
and children who. suffered.
The great rotunda Of the jail, sur
| rounded on all sides by tier on tier of
barred cells. became for half hour
the stage for a scene out of purgatory
The three gray old mothers elaSped
IN their arms for the last time the three
boys who were to die In the morning
1t was d irightful ordeal for the
boys. 1t was n still greater ordeal for
the mothers and the aunts and sisters
and little nephews and nieces who
understood only vaguely what the
meaning was.
by q special arrangement the con-
demned men were released from their
cells, one at TIME for the last fare
wells Then the family groups were
admitted
Eagles Mother First.
First came poor old mother ot Eagles
She has been the most pathetic figure
OF all 10 those who have watched al
the jail for the past few days,
She Is small, worn, gray-haired
Jewish woman. who seems In her lats
sixties. Hour after hour she sat on the
hard bench In the waiting roam
tremulously weeping, She understand