Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-01 | Page 1 | Four Hanged for Murder in Robbery

IF OUR HANGED I FOR MURDER IN ROBBERY Jail House Quartet Executed for Brutal Bank Killing EACH FACES TRAP BOLDLY Year Old Murderer Gets Illinois Death Edict I a Br DJ United Press NEW ORLEANS June 1 Four I-Four Fou men convicted of ot murder In one o othe of the bloodiest and cruelest crudest bank robberies robberies rob rob- berles in the history of the city were dropped to their deaths one by on one here today from the gallows of th the new parish prison Herman Taylor Donald an and Harold Stone all of Chicago and It Ito Jacques Louisiana negro paid th the death penalty that the s state te exacted in m the murder of John Rizzo shot sho when a n suburban bank was raided here December 22 1930 FOLLOWS PRIEST Jacques went to his death first H He followed a priest who was mumbling a prayer which the negro repeated to the gallows Jacques' Jacques body dropped through the trap at 1210 p. p m. m A new rope was used for each cach exe cution Henry Mayer the hangman produced the second rope at 12 1228 p. p p m. m and immediately Taylor was led into the death room Taylor accused as being the actual i killer of Rizzo stepped fearlessly onto the trap I Taylor faylor went to his death praying I The trap was sprung a second time at 1232 p p. m. m Harold Stone youngest of the condemned con con- four who had formed a jail jai jailhouse jailhouse house quartet to harmonize away the months they waited for death was the third to go to the gallows His real name ame was not learned until today A Jew he had given an Irish name George ODay to save my family from disgrace His body dropped through the floor trap on the third rope lope at 1246 p. p m. m last of ot the four to die walked boldly into the room accompanied accompanied by Father George McNamara Catholic priest of Austin Texas Ry Ry- lich Ich was a weak faced youth routh with a striking prison pallor He was hanged at 18 1 p. p m. m Loses oses in n Second Slaying Trial ROCKFORD Ill June 1 UP UP- UP year Seventeen Russell hams liams lams was sentenced to die in the electric chair by Circuit Judge Arthur E. E Fisher today at the conclusion of ofa a rehearing of his murder case It was the second time the death had been pronounced against the he youthful slayer of a street car mo- mo orman torman Judge Fisher had pronounced the original death sentence The Illinois supreme court remanded the case for rehearing after defense defens attorneys ap pealed The court fixed the electrocution date as June 24 and stipulated that the youth shall die In the Joliet lary electric chair Young Me McWilliams Williams a tall eyed blue youth with light hair took the news calmly almly