The Washington times., 1929-01-21
JAWORSN DIES
IN CHAIR FOR
KILLINGS
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inscrutable. There was faraway
expression in his glazed eyes. His
hair was clipped to the skull.
He walked with q slight limp, his
leg having been paralyzed by .
bullet. He looked straight ahead.
Three Steps to Chair
He wore a white shirt. without a
collar. black pants and black felt
slippers. The pants OF the left leg
was split from the knee down and
his bare Lex showed as he limped In.
1t was only three steps 10 the
chair. Jaworski gave gave that
sinister contraption one quick look
as he was half lifted into 1t.
Quickly and 6eftly two guards
drew the brown leather mask, with
tiny Sits for the eyes and q small
opening at the nose across his face,
and fastened It at the back. It
was a grotesqtIe looking affair
that covered all Of his face and
even his neck.
Amid a terrible silence, broken
only by the sizzling OF a steam
radiator, the guards drew heavy
black straps across his body and
legs. fastening him tightly to the
chair.
Warden Stanley P. Ashe glanced
at his wrist watch. 1t was exactly
b. m. Tall, gray.haired execu.
toner Elliott ran his hands over
the helmet and the doomed mans
head and over the straps on his
body and stepped back to the switch
which was directly beneath 10 blaz-
ing lights set in a black background
much similar to 4 large open safe.
Switch Is Thrown
Elliott ramrned down the lever.
There was a crunching sound as he
did it and the killing current of
man-made lightning enough Juice
to light 80 honles--was sent hurting
through the prisoners body.
The form in the chair 1eaped as
il to break the strong leather straps
which held 1t.
Jaworsli'a hands, clinging tightly
to the broad, oaken arms OF the
chair, turned beet red. A blood
color also suffused the neck, and
no doubt the face, which was con-
cealed by the mask.
The cords of the mans neck
stood out like steel bands. He sat
bolt upright in the chair.
The seconds dragged on. Each
second seemed an hour to the awe.
stricken witnesses.
Suddenly JaworslSps body relaxed,
like tired man collapsing.
Current shut Off
The current was shut off. RE
executioner and the two physi-
clans. DR.. Ezra T. Hickock, OF the
prison, and Or. j. v. Foster. Of
State College. stepped forward. The
latter had witnessed his first exc
cution. The executioner lifted up
the eye-slit Of the mask and the
doctors peered in.
Guards ripped down the mans
shirt, revealing his bare chest. DIR.
Hickock applied a stethoscope TO q
spot over JaworsSi's heart. Then
he stepped back and In crisp tones
said:
Gentlemen. 1 declare Paul ia
WOrsld dead"
One of the guards dipped q sponge
into large pan of water beside the
chair and screened the man s.
aDbtItlCNt a1GtC leg a Ilt AAAASA WIS -
moved. revealing an angry face dis
torted by pain.
They lifted the lifeless body to 81
porcelain topped wheel stFetcher. The.
color had receded from his twisted
face and his tattOed left arm hung
Imply over the side as they wheeled
him past the Mortified spectators to
an adjoining room. where an autopsy
was performed,
And thus, in this gruesome man
ner, the commonwealth of Pennsyi-
vanla exacted payment for the lurid
career Of this modern Jesse James, !"
who had admitted killing at leaest
six men while his notorious flathead
gang swept across four states.
Hardly had Jaworskfs body been
wheeled away than the little door to
the left Of the chair swung open
again, quite noiselessly, and Calvin
James entered The face OF this
26-year-old youth was deathly pale
but he walked without support.
his lips were moving I'm prayer
when the first shock was applied at
7.10 a. MI He was declared dead
at TIA.
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