Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-08-17 | Page 14 | 4 Die in Chair for Hijacking Murder

4 DE OlE IN GH CHAIR I m FOR HJ MU DE Slayers Electrocuted in Rapid O Order de at Pennsylvania Prison t 1 B United Tress run BELLEFONTE Pa Au Aug 17 Four 17 Four 1 Four men paid Pennsylvania's anlas death penalty penalty pen pen- alty ary in the the electric chair today for killing Louis Hoffman Hofman of Adam Adams township In 1928 during an alleged hijacking attempt The four were vere Carl Crow Joseph Frank Fank alias alas the Ace of Spades and Frank Fank Powell Powel pleaded guilty to the killing The Thc others lothers were convicted by juries last lat to be sentenced was first fist to be executed Repeating a prayer after the Rev Frank Fank H. H McCreesh McCreesh Mc Mc- Creesh Creeh prison chaplain he was wa strapped to the chair at 7 01 a a. a m. m E. E strapped S. S T. T At 7 05 he was pronounced dead Powell Powel followed at 7 09 and was pronounced dead at 7 15 the only one to show any emotion was strapped in the chair a half hal minute later and was wa pronounced dead at 7 7 21 Crow Cow declared his innocence inocence I r am innocent he said as Innocent limo Inno ino cent as a newborn babe God Go bless my bUY baby Crow w was pla placed d In the chair at and five fue minutes later was pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- dead Crow was married maried and the father of one child chUd leaves a a widow and tour four children chiden and the other two were unmarried All Al four tour were be between between be be- tween 35 and 40 years old 5