Evening star., 1932-01-08
SLAYER EXECUTED
| AFTER Z REPR|EVES
Leo Brothers innocent ot
LingIe Killing, Bell Says
as He Goes to Chair.

CHICAGO, January 8 [P).-Frank H.
Bell, 81, twice reprieved in three
months, died in the electric chair early
TODAY for the murder of Christ Patras,
a restaurant owner, killed during a
! hold-up on June Is, 1880.
Fifteen minutes before he was
marched into the death chamber, he
! cignad a statement in which he said
! he was perfectly sure" that Leo V.
Brothers. convicted slayer OF Alfred II.
Lingle, Tribune reporter, was innocent
of the Lingle murder.
Fooled Jail Break.
| Bell. who once frustrated jail break
/ and won the friendship Of officials, was
strapped into the chair at midnight.
He was pronounced dead at 1901 am.
He was given two shocks of the current.
Two deputies half dragged him into
! the chair.
Bells last explanation was somewhat
| confusing. authorities said. In state
ment made after the Patras Staying he
| did not mention the Lingle Staying.
Later he told the coroner'S jury that he
| had driven the automobile in which
! the killers of Lingle rode to the murder
scene and away from it. He said his
/ companions were Richard Sullivan, eX-
ecuted recently for the Patras Staying,
and Joseph Traum, Indiana gangster,
now prisoner in LeaVenWorth Penl-
| tentiary
Bell also said that Sullivan shot Pa
tras when Patras refused to pay them
| for driving the murder car.
Story Called False.
Pat Roche, investigator for the States
attorney. said he carefully investigated
Bells story of the Lingle killing and
declared that 1t was entirely false.
, Confronted by this, Bell admitted that
the Lingle angle of the Patras murder
was fabricated from newspaper stories
which he had read.
In his final confession, he asserted
| that his original story as to the Lingle
case was true He had planned, the
statement said, to appear as witness
in possible new trial of Brothers,
but the State Supreme Court still was
considering an application for such a
rehearing.
Sullivan. just before his death, was
disclosed as the son of wealthy and
respectable New Hampshire family.
New York Executes Two.
OSSINING, N Y, January P).-
Joseph Garicari, 27, and Alfonso Car
TdLO, Al. were pun W OSdIll III Vic GlCS-
| trio chair shortly before midnight last
night for the murder Of Giovanni Volpe
of New York The double execution
! left 81 condemned men In the death
house.
Carolina Puts Three to Death.
COLUMBIA, S. c., January (P).-
Three colored men, two convicted of
murder and one of criminal assault
upon a white woman, were electrocuted
at States Prison today. They were:
David King, %, and Richard Dean. IT,
Spartanburg. executed for the murder
of Haskill Hill, Spartanburg filling sta
ton operator, and James L. Sturdevant,
o. convicted of attacking widow on
, Horny County farm.
TWO TEXANS DIE IN CHAIR
Farmer and COlored Man Pay Penalty
for Crimes.
HUNTSVILLE, Tex, January 8 (P)
Ira Mckee, 80, Palo Pinto County
farmer, and Alfred Jackson, SO, COL
ored, Of Bexar County, both convicted
Of murder, were electrocuted in the
State prison here early today.
Mckee was convicted of the murder
Of w. R. Billingsley at Sparkenburg.
! Tex Billingsley, testimony showed, was
shot to death when he attempted to
prevent a robbery
Jackson slew a San Antonio negress,
Eliza Pinson.