Show e t a t. f CHAIR TO 0 CLAIM GUN WO WOMAN I COURT OURI REFUSES NE TRIAL PLEA T FOR R n DOOMED PAIR Defense Claims Error in ini i Denying Impulse Petition BOTH REMAIN STOIC I End of Long Murder Loot Case in View NEW NEW CASTLE Pa Aug 9 United Press Press Mrs Irene Iren-e Schroeder Schroeder der and W. W Glen Dague were sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to die in in the electric chair for the murder of Corporal Brady Paul state highway policeman and their petitions petition for new trials were refused by Judge R. R L. L Hildebrand to today day Defense A Attorneys Ben Jarrett and Thomas W. W Dickey Dicke announced they would file We a bill of ot exceptions and appeal to the state supreme court from frona the death penalty The Tho date of of their execution willbe will willbe willbe be set b by the governor go The court held held there was insufficient dent clent evidence c to warrant a a. new trial and that the tho convicted killers had bL j Judged bed and rid lh- lh n 16 to pa pay the d death tJi by by bya a a. Lawrence count county Jury COURT ERRED CLAIM Pleas for a new were based on the claim chain of ot the defense that the trial court erred In not permitting the plea of or Irresistible impulse to and murder The rhe judge also cried erred In his charge to the thc jur jury the thc defense contended Mrs Schroeder and Dague were ere erele le led from their hot and stuff stuffy cells cens In Lawrence count county jail into the tho deserted deserted de do- courtroom where on a a blus blus- lery ery March arch day d they were found guilty of f murder In th the first t degree deree with recommendation for fOT the death penalty Neither r showed any emotion as the judge told them he lie could not remove e the specter of ot the electric chair thair With much the same stoicism they the showed ae aB a they robbed and killed In a a. brief briet career of ot crime the they heat hear Ie e e judges judge's de de- de isIo and then returned to their Continued on page Ia 6 COURT REFUSES S NEW TRIAL PLEA OF DOOMED PAIR Continued from frona page I 1 cells to tu await the next turn of oC theIr fate ate It If the d death ath sentence finally Is carried out Mrs Irs Schroeder will be bethe bethe bethe the first woman to die in Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania's Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania's vanla's electric and ono one of thc the few fe who have been executed for mUI in this state Dague and Mrs Irs Schroeder reached the clima of ot their bandit careers a q b few cw da days s 's after atter last Christmas Christ Christ- mas m when nhen with her year old son Donnie giving an air all of or innocence to the tile party thc they held up a chain store in Butler Pa A third man who accompanied them was believed b by police to have been Mrs ders der's brother He never has been found The They were ere speeding down the thc Butler pike after alter the robbery when Corporal Brady Brad Paul and Ernest Moore Moor attempted to halt them for questioning The answer was a stream of or bullets Paul fell fen to the ground dying Moore was wounded MAMMA SHOT COPS A few days das later policemen en found round Donnie When questioned he told tern My Iy mamma shot two cops like you OU Tho The chase finally finall led l d to the mountains of ot Arizona Fighting and shooting at officers l' l in their flight across tho tue continent the they were captured at last near Phoenix by bv a sheriffs sheriff's posse A deputy deput- sheriff was ns killed in tho the fray tray Extradition was granted and late In ha February they came cam back to New NewCastle NewCastle NewCastle Castle to face tace trial |