Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-22 | Page 1 | Executioner of 53 Men and One Woman is Dead

Executioner of 53 Men ana One Woman Is Dead HORNELL N. N Y Jan 22 AP AP- AP The worlds world's oldest executioner William Wlliam Wll- Wll liam iam Patterson who led ledone ledone ledone one woman and three fifty men in includIng including in- in Leon Czolgosz murderer of President McKinley to their deaths In Auburn prison died yesterday Patterson who was 84 years old was the first executioner to 0 make use Ue of t the te electric chair He also executed the first woman to die in inthe inthe inthe the chair Mary lary Farmer He kept a record of the executions by carvIng carving carving ing the victims victim's name name on his cane which he always carried He was I executioner at at I Auburn for thirty years