The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-06-07

Attentively and reverently, the
doomed trio stood in their cells in
the death house and participated
with Rabbi Sedar in a full evening
religious service.
With him they recited from the
91st Psalm:
Fear We not the hour that flieth
by day. nor the terror that walketh
by night.
"Your foot will not stumble.
THE angels have charge over
thee"
Each, as he walked the dozen
steps separating his cell from the
death chamber, repeated, as the
chaplain chanted from the 23d
Psalm:
"The Lord is my shepherd. 1
shall not want
Only Faber, however, repeated
the prayer until the very moment
he was clamped in the electric
chair.
EXECUTION Hour Opens
At the stroke of midnight. the
witnesses took their places in the
brightly lighted death chamber.
They, stood directly in front Of the
chair.
There was an ominous silence as
Executioner Robert Elliott Of New
York, wearing a straw hat, white
shirt, black and gray striped tie
and gray suit, made a Anal exam
ination of the death-dealing APP
paratus.
A guard peaked through the door
Of the death chamber to the cells
where the three men awaited their
doom. There, they were chanting
psalms with Rabbi Sedar.
A signal was given and Murton
walked out of Cell No. /. He shook
hands with his younger brother in
Sell No. 2. then passed down to cell
No. 8 to bid farewell to Faber.
Walked i'm Unaided
The door opened wide. Murton
walked in unaided. His face chalk
white through heavy beard. His
eyes were lifted heavenward. Only
a few hours before he had become
reconciled with his young bride,
Norma Brighton Millen, minister's
daughter.
M uILOh WOAC bA0O 0hAA 10y
socks, black slippers and gray
trousers. He took his place in the
chair unaided. The electrodes were
fixed to his left leg and his head.
A black rubbery mask was tied
around his zee sy&hgpbg tohSHRE
around his eyes and his lower jaw.
Mfurton Pays His Debt
At 1906 a. m. Executioner Ell
liott threw the switch. Murton's
body lunged at the straps with the
first shock. His left hand grasped
the arm of the chair. His right INST
was clenched. Blue-gray smoke
curied from his lef leg and
head. Five minutes after the switch
was thrown, he was pronounced
dead.
He was given four shocks and a
total of $500 volts coursed through
his body.
Two guards lifted his body from
the chair, carried 1t behind q
screen and laid 1t on one of three
slabs there.
While Murton was dying, chant
ing of prayers could be heard from
the death cells.
Quickly, the chair was prepared
for the second victim.
Irving Walked Firmly
Irving. in stocking feet. walked
firmly from his cell. He shook
hands with Faber, then marched
unaided into the death chamber.
He, too, was unshaven. He looked
straight ahead, seemingly frighten-
ed.
While Irving was being strapped
in the chair, he turned to the right
and, in a quivering, half-frighten-
ed high pitched voice, asked War
den Francis j. w. flanagan:
MAY l say something?"
There was slight pause.
Directly ahead of him on slab
behind the screen, lay the body of
his brother, Murton, who had pre-
coded him in death.
Irving threw his head back
slightly.
Then Came His Salute
IT want to say that I salute my
brother Murton."
The mask was clamped over his
face.
With the first shock, Irving's
hair stood up straight and yell
low-blue tongue of electricity
spurted from the electrode attach
ed to the right side of his head. A
small cloud of smoke curled to-
ward the ceiling. His body surged
violently against the straps. Then
the current was turned of and Ell
lott walked out from behind his
screen and re-adjusted the head
electrode.
The elctrode had slipped down
from the right side of Irving's
head. Again the switch was
thrown. Five shocks, ranging from
500 to 1000 volts, were necessary
to kill Irving. youngest of the trio.
He was in the chair almost seven
minutes before he was pronounced
dead.
1t was the first time in many
years that five shocks had been
need to execute criminal in Mass
achusetts.
Faber Calmest OF All
Fears had been felt that the
temperamental Faber, who grad
uated from Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology with honors only
a widow while still young. Her
father was sea captain. Seven
years ago her brother was found