The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-17
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Ccontinued from Page iO the same house in Mineola and Appelgate often took Ruth to bod with him and his wife. The three of them slept nude. l
 Appelgate who c year ago was the commander of an American Lee zion post and an eTnploye of the ted- eral veterans bureau, met his death in 6 fashion sharply contrasted to the terror that paralyged Mrs. Creighton. His last words while seated in the electric chair were:
 Before I die I say I am inno- cent of this crime, God have mercy on Martin Littleton of Nassau county"
 Littleton is the district attorney who prosecuted him.
 Wheeled To Death
 Mrs. Creighton showed no life whatever when two guards rolled her wheel chair into the death chamber. Twenty.four ofiiclal wit- nesses agreed that she was uncon- scious. Her head lolled Imply over her right shoulder. Her eyes were closed. Her fat cheeks, once notable for their rosy color but now chalk white, sagged heavily Into the creases of her neck.
 It was stiflingly hot in the death chamber when, with Q little rush, two white aproned IIlatrons pushed open the door through which the condemned come from their cells. The wheel chair rolled in on their heels. The Rev. John T. McCaf" fiery, Catholic prison chaplain who had baptized Mrs. Creighton in the Roman Catholic faith and heard her confession two hours earlier, walked behind the two guards.
 The room was 50 quiet that when Robert Elliott, veteran executioner, lifted 6 leather helmet out of Q bucket of brine the drip of water was q startling noise.
 Six guards in blue shirts rushed forward to surround the wheel chair as though deliberately to conceal the unconscious woman from sight. Mrs. Creighton wore a pink, silk night dress, cut away deeply in front, and c black silk klrnona. Soft, brown bedroom slippers were on her feet. Her hair, not clipped as Is usual for electrocutions, was knot. ted loosely ct the back of her head.
 Two big guards lifted her into the electric chair. Warden Lewis D. Lawes, an enemy of capital punish. Inent, stood by silently. Elliott took only c moment to buckle the clecs trodeS to Mrs. Creighton'S log, and clamp the helmet over her head.
 He stepped behind the char, whirled his switch. A dynamo hummed. The body ih the chair convulsed against straps across tho breast and lap. The plate on tho right leg smoked.
 Elliott whiried his switch again Two guards removed the helmet, Two physicians listened through stethoscopes ct Mrs. Creighton's bare chest.
 T pronounce this woman dead" one said.
 It was the fifth woman New York has executed and the first person in state history electrocuted when unconscious.
 Less than Q minute after the form that had been Mrs. Creighton rolled out c side door on c white, wheeled table, Appelgate walked in. He was pale but holding his nerve.
 The executioner repeated his ritual with straps, buckles and hel- met, whirled his switch again.
 Sparks flew from the leg electrode through curling smoke.
 The dynamo hum ceased, the doctors used their stethoscopes again, and Appelgate went out Dc. hind his former mistress. It was ii:I6 ?. m.
 John Creighton, the executed wo. mans fllousey husband who seemed never to have suspected that his wife and daughter were being sc. duced in his own home and that his wife and her parai1our had com. mitted murder under his eyes, wis. ited his wife yesterday afternoon. What they said to each other, no one knew. Mrs. Creighton refused to allow her daughter and her l2- year old son to visit her in prison.
 Appelgate'S daughter, Agnes called with c male relative last night and sat in the prison wait. Ing room eating Q sandwich with gusto less than 46 minutes before