Show L. L LA A A. A KILLER KILLERI I DIES SOBERON SOBER SOBERON ON GALLOWS Mounts Steps to Scaffold in San Quentin Prison Two at Time f REJECTS RELIGION OFFER Three Men Witnesses Faint as Trap Is Sprung B By BJ United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON Cal Oct 20 20 Dallas Dallas Egan 38 lover of ot poetry and fine ine arts yet a confessed cold cold- blooded killer was hanged on the San Quentin gallows today for ari aged man during the Olympic games in Los Angeles Egan spurned clemency from Governor Gov Gay James Rolph Ralph Jr asking only good whisky as s his companion in inthe Inthe inthe the hours that preceded his death He took a drink of ot straight whisky two hours before he was hanged at 1001 a. a m. m Twelve minutes later he was pronounced dead Egan had whisky on his breath but cut he died sober I was the statement of Dr E. E L. L Stanley pris prison n physician and acting warden The condemned man dressed in a ablack ablack ablack black suit white open-necked open shirt and carpet slippers strode firmly into the gallows room Climbs Steps Alone Unaided by guards he climbed the 13 steps alone He had spurned offers of religious solace The plaintive strains of a tune I called Ida drifted from the cell I room behind the gallows chamber as witnesses ne gathered and andy Stanley ley went to summon Egan The rhe convict Was calmly playing his phonograph You had better turn it off said Stanley we weare are r ready ady Oka Okay doctor Egan replied I 1 wanted to p pass ss out with ith the memory of that tune He glanc glanced d quickly around his cell About one o e remained in a bottle of ot whisky which hi h the gov governor had provided Death cell cen witnesses said Egan apparently ap considered a last drink but changed his mind and stepped from his cell ceH Egan to the end maintained his earnest desire to die Calmest In History He was the calmest man in the history history history his his- tory of the death house said Dr Stanley a veteran prison official The two guards who marched with Egan up the steps to the gallows may mayas mayas mayas' mayas mayas' as' as as well have stayed behind He took the steps two at a time forcing the guards to hurry to keep up with him Quickly and without suggestion from officials Egan took his place on the trap door He glanced out over the crowd of 50 witnesses as guards adjusted straps and the black mask Witnesses had a final glance at the calm hardened face and then the trap was sprung Three men in the crowd fainted Egan enjoyed his breakfast rand land liquor this morning During the meal he conversed with guards prison hospital hose has pital and Dr Stanley I III feel fine he told them I 1 wouldn't ask for a commutation or reprieve for anything Refuses Religion He ref refused sed religion gl n to the last Courteous to a priest and a minister who called at his cell cen he refused to embrace a faith I III dont don't believe in the hereafter I. I he explained Ive gone through life this far alone aloner I guess Ill I'll go the route the same way He directed that his body be given gwen Continued on page Two EGAN GOES DOES TO GALLOWS SOBER Mounts Steps to Scaffold in San Quentin Prison Two at Time I me Continued from PAle Page One Ono to the University of ot California medical medical med ical leal department Officials asked if U he had no relatives Im the last he said with n smile When Im I'm gone there isn't anymore any more E Egan n with a n criminal record dating back to 1914 1014 gave guards no trouble He Hel was studious and inclined to poetry poetry po pot etry and m meditation Only a a short time before his execution date he he wrote a poem In Memoriam when a fellow-convict fellow died Death sentence was passed ed edon on Egan when he confessed shooting William Kirkpatrick a Battle Creek Mich visitor to the Olympic games in Los Angeles Victim Shot Down Kirkpatrick partially deaf deat wandered wandered wan dered into a jewelry store to set his watch Egan with two companions was holding up the store Kirkpatrick failed to hear Egans Egan's command to put up his hands and was shot down Later Egans Egana companions were killed and he was C in an attempted bank robbery Egan adopted a fatalistic attitude during Ills his trI trial His ills outstanding ambition am ambition am- am seemed to be death on the gal lows He expressed himself in picturesque picturesque pic pic- language I 1 have poisoned the well and it Is right that I 1 should drink o of the waters wa watern tern was one of ot his remarks I 1 carried a gun and I I intended to kill if the need arose he said The occasion arose and I killed Now itis it itis itis is my turn to die A week before he was to hang Egan wrote to Governor Rolph requesting requesting requesting re re- re- re questing that no hearing bearing interfere with the scheduled execution He also asked his attorneys not to intercede in any way Explains Attitude J If I stayed in prison several verRI years then was paroled Id I'd be too old t to work or commit crimes crime he wrote If U my sentence were commuted to life Id I'd lose the fine food they serve in death row here herc So Im I'm ready to go Egan also told the governor he was guilty of another Los Angeles murder for which Fred W. W Gardner is serving ing a term in San Quentin Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles authorities discounted the confession confession con con- saying Egans Egan's story did not conform to facts in the case In his last hours his hh poem on the death of ot George Evans a fellow prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner was revealed t It expressed the sentiments sentiment the condemned man himself him self seI appeared to typify for it read in inper part per 0 O child of humor whom disease and age Could never conquer and who jest jested d death Thou art no longer burdened with a cage And may now soar beyond the humid breath Of soured beastliness and Josh with Twain Who like yourself saw tragedy and laughed |