The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-13
Wo1nenWhO
Kill Cease
to Go Free
Eva Coo Fifth Sentenced
to Electric Chair
in New York.
BY ELEANOR GUM
Zine. special Writer

NEW YORK seems oe'e'' mn
~ 20 stamp out coid-nloooao
murder and Is showing itself no re-
specter Of persons
Sentencing 2 woman 10 die in the
electric chair has become a matter
4 court routine. A criminal VINO
hsDpens TO be a Wan, woman
VINO happens TO be a criminal gets
snd In Justice be SAID. deserves, me
sar1e punishmcnt as the male crlIII-
raI But since the death pena4ly
Gems 10 have failed as dettereal
10 crime. II Us justification is ina
= nrovides a horrible example 70
Others and Will stay the manu- -
slavers in the future. IT can not Oe
SAID TO be 100 per cent effective.
Fva Coo. convicted Of a pariicu--
1srIv cold blooded murder. proh-eu
in no way by the execution OF , ~,
sr,der Vho also killed N colo Dlooo
srd for gain. Her death IN the
,.hsfr failed 70 keep another aNaIi-
,,o,,- woman from committing
brutal crime in order that she mlsil.
carr a mans insurance. ConhPal ca ca
"a such callousness, the peTpe. . ~.
n a crime Of passion seems a4ulO7'
respectable ,,.s can
To realize that the so-called gen
80 COX is capable of SUCH a eISiy
scheme is 10 realize that IN CIliile
,,o~e is no sex and that IN cum
ming and cruelty women are Coii'-
parable 10 male criminals
rrnIess the court of appeals OF
Governor Lehman interVeneS' hsd
Coo will be the fifth woman 70 DC
electrOcuted in New YORK II -
C,,ife reasonable 10 suppose that her
Gcstb in the chair VIII not slow up
Tho next woman with murder III Aei
boar. Vet her experience may ho1
be entirely IN vain.
Women VIGOROUSLY MercileSs
r. offers proof, If proof were
NEEDED that the woman VINO Coil-
fdes m another woman IS putting
herself at the mercy Of that woman III
aDd that women are notorlouSly
merciless to each other.
1nfrusting A confidence to the
average woman is certainly asking
for trouble. Not that women are
ircanable OF friendship, but 1t Is
IN the eternal discredit Of our sex
that the percentage Of women VINO
are capable OF 1t IS much lower
than II should be.
Eva Coos best friend and con-
fdant forgot her role when she
uas confronted with the alterna-
tive Of saving her own skin or con-
sirning that Of the woman VINO
trusted her. literally TO the flames.
The brain that conceived sucn a
diabOlical scheme failed TINS
wretched woman when she yielded
10 the impulse 10 conflde her plan
IN another woman. Exhibit A
Woman-s greatest weakness.
In turning states evidence. Mar
tba Cliff has been rOundly scored
as a Judas IN female form. Inc
Great love that sacrifices ones lie
for ones friend did not burn IN
the bosom OF this woman, who was
too nervous to stop her car from
driving back and forth over the
bodv Of man, an act which seems
10 call for a tremendous amount
If nerve and emotional control.
Running over the dead body Of an
animal in the roadway IS enough
n Give the average woman driver
the filters. nor would she do SUCH
a thing willingly. A nice PAIR OF
girl friends, these.
Already Punished
Ont aside from all this and even
from the sentences pronounced or
10 be pronounced, these women have
already had some deserved punish
ment meted out 10 them. Martina
Cliff must have writhed under the
scorn Of the decent for the betrayer-
Eva Coo. an absurd name for a muir
dcrcSS. must certainly have already
experienced a shock when she saw
herself as others see her, instead OF
in the role Of siren in which she
seemed 10 picture herself.
II is taxing the imagination Of the
average woman 10 the breaking
point 70 expect her to appreciate the
feelings Of a woman condemned 10
death. But there's not a woman
living who can not understand the
feeling for a woman whose counsel
and supposedly her friend can only
say 10 her, Look at her. Somebody
loved her once She may be an old
sheep nOw-but she must have been
somebody's pet lamb.
A courtroom scene on stage or
screen in which a speech occurred
would be jeered or hOwled down by
any audience. The learned counsel
for the defense seems 70 be curious
II lacking in anything remotely re-
sembling a sense Of humor.
One who has heard ones self so
described can well be imagined say
ing. oh. death. where Is thy sting?'
Miss Constance Mccullough. who
has been visiting her mother. Mrs