The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-19
ALEX KAMINSKI
 PAID PENALTY
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 the execution of Bruno Richard
 Hauptmann, and four times ht plunged the switch. The extra
 heavy shock dimmed prison lights and told two inmates of distant cells that the chair had claimed the life of Q brother and confed. l crate.
 These men were John Kaminski an older brother, serving 231s ur to 25 years for an abortive attempt to bomb the Springfield courtroom where Alexander's murder trial was in progress; and Paul Wargo 22. of Wallingford, Conn.,, serving a life sentence in connection with the staying of the jail guard. kaminski was pronounced dead at l2:O9 a. m., five minutes after leaving his cell. His body was to be taken today to New Britain for burial.
 Wrote Several Letters | Shortly before he went to his death, Kaminski wrote a note tc his brother John:
 I'm writing to you to tell you I H !" bTdiiu SplSlto. WuuI SOu to be the same. Don't do anything else. It doesn't pay. I'm ready to go. We will all meet again some time. There Is no such thing as an empty chair"
 He addressed a similar note to Wargo, and he left the prisoners $2.50 each.
 Previously the doomed youth had written four farewell letters ito Superior Judge Nelson P. Brown, the trial judge; his moth- CT, Mrs Mary Kaminski; to a sis- ter, Mrs. Rose Papalo; and to an | unnamed 1S-year-old youth who had urged him to be brave. During the execution state prison was heavily guarded for the first time since. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, internation- ally-known communists, went to the chair in 1927. This precaution was taken because of threats yes. terday to bomb the East Cam bridge courthouse, where J u d g e Brown was sitting.
 Crime That Did It l The crime for which Kaminski paid with his life was committed I October 22, 1888, when he and Wargo escaped from Hampden county jail at Springfield. Both were serving x-month sentences for carrying revolvers. After the morning recreation period, when the other prisoners filed back to their cells, Kaminski and Wargo hid in the jail work ghnn Whnr Ja a,atA shop, Kaminski bounced on him, snatched his keys and with them Wargo made their way to the roof and over a wall to freedom. Found hiding in bushes near the Connecticut river half a mile from the jail, Wargo surrendered without resistance.
 1 Two days later Hayden died at a hospital.
 It was several weeks before 1 Kaminski was recaptured in the south. He was returned to Spring. field, tried and convicted on @ first degree murder charge. Wargo, tried with him, was convicted of second-degree murder. l During Kaminskfs trial his 26- year-old brother John caused Il sensation in the courtroom when he shot and wounded Sheriff David J. Manning and tossed 6 crude bomb which failed to explode. | His Second Break l On September IF last, while awaiting a mandatory death sem tence, Kaminski broke jail for the second time. As a guard dozed In a chair only eight feet away, he sawed the bars of his cell, went through a steel door left unlocked by q guard, pried the bars of a kitchen window, and escaped. | Police trailed him into bis home state of Connecticut.
 | An automobile was stolen at Thompsonville.
 l Another car was stolen at Manchester. 4. | Posses guided by bloodhounds converged on Coventry lake. | A series of breaks at Vernon Depot were attributed to Kamin- ski.
 The center of the search chang ed from place to place in Connec- ticut. but the fugitive remained elusive.
 On November 10, however. Ka- minskt was recaptured at Albany, N. Y.. when he tried to reclaim luggage which he had left on a bus. His bag was found to contain revolver, burglar tools, and $350 in cash. He had dyed his hair and | eyebrows and grown a small mustache. Later authorities found hacksaw blades sewed between the soles of his shoes. New Britain, Conn. Feb. 10 = | (UP) - The criminal career of | Alexander Kaminski, exec t d slayer of 0 prison\ guard, started at the age of II when he was sentenced to the reformatory for a minor theft.
 In the thirteen years that fol- lowed he was returned to the re- formatcry for parole violation. escaped and went to Tampa, Fla, where he served a year in chain gang for burglary.
 l Completing the sentence he re. turned to Willimantic. was con- victed of robbery and given five to seven years in states prison. He won a parole for good behavior. l It was while serving this term he met Paul Wargo, companion in many crimes. who now is serving a life sentence in Massachusetts for complicity in the Springfield jail break during which KaminskI slugged to death a guard. | In each of his two escapes. Ka. minski was hunted throughout Connecticut and the home of par. ents here was guarded closely.
 At large for 52 days after his last escape Sept. IT, 1884. he turned up at Albany where he made the mistake of calling at a bus station for n handbag contain ing burglar tools 1t cost him his