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Show I ; v Does Crime Pay? 4 1 fOLUMnrs Ohio. Mar. 3. John A. Biirk. alias McGulre '23. of Toledo, and Leroy Tyler. 31, Youngstown. negro, ne-gro, both convicted of murder, were electrocuted at Ohio penitentiary shortly after midnight They were the ihird. and fourth men respectively to be yeoiltsd here during the past three days. Burke died without making a statement, state-ment, but Tyler maintained innocence. Burke was convicted of having fireu the shots that killed Augustus Dong and Lewis Schroder, New York Central Cen-tral detectives, while they were guarding guard-ing S.OOO in company funds at To-ledo. To-ledo. January 17. 1921. Tyler was found guilty of slaying a 15-year-old negro girl, employed ut the same hotel as he In Youngstown. OSSIN1NG. N. Y.. Mar. 3. George Mi Cormlck, 21 years old, murderer of his c hum Edward Shannon whom ho killed in New York, after a quarrel over a S5 bet. was put to death n the electric chair at Sinur Sing prison Thursday. He prayed audibly as the current was turned on. The condemned man steadfastly ro-Cd ro-Cd to permit his mother and broth-er broth-er to visit him in the death house. |