Show STRANGLED TO DEATH I I Execution of Youthful Kentucky j I Murderer Badly Botched j I Louisville Ky Icy K Jan 3 Clarence LClarence I Sturgeon 19 years old was executed in inthe inthe inthe the Jail yard 3 rd here today His extreme youth was the basis of many m ny unava unavailable I I I able efforts to procure his pardon j The execution was waa delayed dela cd and ren ran i i dered extremely painful for those pres present present ent by reason rOMon of the failure of the ma machinery machinery machinery chinery to work and the consequent delay dela of several minutes while the condemned man stood rigidly awaiting the end Sturgeon was to 10 light that the drop did not break his neck and he was not pronounced dea for seventeen I minutes Sturgeon murdered Ira Bruner Bruner ViI Wil n 1 fred red McMIchael and James Blackerly one year ago Sturgeon who was only 19 years lars old went to the a scaffold with witha a calm truthfulness ow lug on his countenance Even Een the last in Interview interview with his aged father and moth mother er and farewells to his seven seen brothers sisters failed to affect him I |