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


enteen minutes later she was pro-
flounced dead.
Like his mother, Howard mount
ed the 10 gallows steps without as
distance. On the trap, he licked his
lips, and said in q trembling voice:
what did was against my will.
I feel sure any one in my place
would have done the same thing.
/ hope to see my little ones on the
other SIDE.
Son 1Inmbled Prayer
He mumbied prayer while the
hangsman's assistant waited, the
death mask in his hand. Howard
finished, the mask was tied across
his face and at 5:45 q. M, he
dropped. He was pronounced dead
at sos.
Howard leaves a wife and three
children.
Mrs Carey wore black dress with
white collar, provided by the state,
and, despite her manacles, mounted
the gallows with an air of dignity.
She was accompanied by her spir-
itual advisor, the. Rev. 3. G. Bolton
NmSLHOuASL- EpiSSVpdtt dhu Tic ASN.
Richard K. White, Episcopalian)
Ministers Prayed All Night
All night the ministers had as
sisted mother and son in prepara-
ton for death, Both had prayed
and read their Bibles for hours.
AT 4 a. m. the jailers unlocked the
doors of their adjoining cells, per-
hitting them to meet in the corri-
dor.
Mrs. Carey jerked Howard into
her arms, kissed him, stroked his
bair, and wept Historically. How
ard, dried-eyed at first, soon was
weeping too. After is minutes
Of embraces that grew more fer
vent, jailors separated them, re-
turning them to their cells.
Wednesday night, Mrs. Carey
paid her last farewell to her sons,
James and Lawrence. Handcuffed
together, they were permitted to
etand in the corridor and converse
with their mother and brother.
James was returned to another
prison where he is serving life;
Lawrence to his cell In the same
jaa where his mother and brother
were executed.
IL Farmers Saw IL
Twelve farmers witnessed the
executions. The portable oak gal
lows, used for all executions in
Delaware, was set up in the Jail
yard and screened by q high board
fence. 1t was rooted with canvas
tot prevent aerial photography.
The ministers entered the prison
It dusk last night. They spent the
night with the condemned. Bolton,
about Mrs. Careys age, devoted all
his time to her, while White, few
years older than Howard, took him
as his special charge Once dur
ing the night White emerged and
told reporters that both were very
repentant and sorrowful," and in
his opinion, well prepared for
death.
"They both have read the Bible
through" he said.
During the first part Of the night
the condemned and their CONSIDERS
sang hymns in which the guards
occasionally Joined. They had a
section Of cells to themselves, other
prisoners having been moved else
where. (Sussex county jail has no
death row.
Babe Each Other Goodbye
When the gray light of a foggy
dawn penetrated the jail windows,
guards came In from the yard.
They said nothing, but Mrs. Carey
turned to her son, crying through
the bars:--
Goodbye, Howard. Goodbye,
boy"
Goodbye, mother"
Howard waited almost 40 min
utes for the guards to return for
him. Meanwhile, Mrs. Carey was
walking past q long line of cells,
out into the open, across short |
open space, and into the boarded |
enclosure containing the gallows.
Sussex prison is four miles from
Georgetown proper, off the main
highway, and has its own farR.
During her rs steps under the
foggy sky, Mrs. Carey heard roos-
tiers crow, pigs squealing and other
honey barnyard sounds.
without tremor, she walked
UP the steps, reciting the Apostles
Greed.
''Have you anything to say?" a
guard asked.
Mrs. Carey nodded, said her few
words, and died.
Howard stumbled once on his
way to the gallows, but apparently
because his foot struck a rough
spot in the yard.
Warden Hugh Smith set off the
trap for each. Fifteen minutes af-
ter Howard died Smith went to the
building where reporters had wait
ed under guard, and informed
them the sentence OF the court had
been fulfilled.
Executions Secret
Every precaution was taken to
keep details of the executions as
secret as possible. Along the
highway outside Q few curious had |
gathered, but state police kept
them on the move. Barbed wire |
entanslements blocked ali roads to
the prison. In Georgetown the A.
900 citizens had been given to un-
derstand the execution would not
take place until 10 a. m. In con-
sequence, few were about.
Brief funeral services and burial |
Immediately followed execution
The bodies were placed In gray
Baskets and conveyed to the GEM
etery In one hearse.
Mrs. Carey was born and spent |
her girlhood in the nearby town |
OF Omar; her aged mother still
lives there.
Complying with one OF her last |
requests, the procession moved past