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Show Nevadai) Proves 'Tough' in Death CARSON CITY, Nev., Jan. 17 (I'.R) Dominico Nadal, "roughest, toughest "prisoner who ever occupied occu-pied death row at the Nevada penitentiary proved the truth of the description today. He lived for 17 minutes in the prison's execution chamber filled with deadly hydro-cyanide gas. "Nailal said he was tough and he proved it," Warden William Lewis said. "Jlis heart ' action continued for 17 'j minutes after he received his first whiff of the fumes. As far as I know this is the longest ever recorded by a Last prisoner executed in Nev-stethoscope Nev-stethoscope in a gas execution." ada recorded heart movements for 14 v-- minutes. The 46-year-old sheepheader went to his death for slaying one man and wounding another at a ranch near Elko. , |