Show MOD MOB GLOATS WATS AT AI KILLERS KILLER'S DROP DROr fROM AllOWS Vantage Points Sell for 2 Each to Watch Execution Execution Execution tion i in Kentucky SLAYER OF THREE PAYS WITH LIFE Courtyard Crowded and Hundreds View Gruesome Gruesome Gruesome Grue Grue- some Scene From Roofs LEXINGTON Ky March 5 AP Al' APEd AlEd Ed Ed Harris negro was hanged atthe atthe at atthe the Fayette county Jail here this morning at lIe He was convicted of attacking Mrs 1 Margaret Bryant Brant Bryanton Branton on January 21 after aUer he had hd slain her husband and two children The negro was pronounced dead at a a. a m. m The courtyard was crowded with people who witnessed the hanging banging Two hundred more persons who could not gain entrance viewed the hanging from a a. nearby garage at 2 a seat The case created unusual Interest interest Inter inter- est throughout the state and after aUer the negro was capt captured rd guardsmen were wele called out to protect him Prisoners on one occasion threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened to mob him Ho He was carried from the state state reformatory at Frankfort to trial here under an armed convoy of or tanks Martial law prevailed here during the trial LEXINGTON Ky March 5 United Press In Pres-In In a hush when ven tn OW at t peered over over the troop gu guarded J il valls were silent Ed- Ed Harris negro was dropped through the trap of the gallows here early tod today y Fifteen minutes late he was pronounced pronounced pro pro- dead and cut down He paid for his murder of ot a white whiteman whiteman whiteman man his two children and Kan nn attack attack at at- tack Jack on the mans man's wife Im at p peace ace with the world my JOy y sins are forgiven Im I'm ready to togo togo togo go h he said Just before etore he began his march to the gallows He mounted mount d the scaffold without a a. tremor There was a smile of or exaltation on his face before it was covered by the hangman's black cap When Harris was tried in Lexington Lexington Lex Lex- ington n In Feb February uary 1200 troops pa patrolled patrolled pa- pa trolled the streets machine guns and tanks guarded against threatening threatening threatening threat threat- ening violence Harris was sm smuggled Into town tried In thirteen minutes and shot back to the reformatory at Fr Frankfort Frankfort Frank Frank- fort where where- he remained until sneaked Into town last night |