Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-20 | Page 2 | Two Go to Deaths in Electric Chair

TWO Iwo GO TO DEATHS I I IN ELECTRIC CHAIR I Oklahoma White Man and Negro Pay for Crimes MALESTER Okla OkIa Oct Oel 20 UP UP- UP Ted Patton Palton white youth convicted of killing a boyhood chum and Charlie Dumas burly negro who pleaded guilty to assaulting a white girl Cirl were executed here early culy today They were led to the electric chair chIr chaira a l few minutes past midnight the white nun man unrepentant and hostile the negro contrite and ready to go Patton was convicted of oC killing Robert Wall Nall son of or a former Sallisaw district judge At his trial he pleaded self defense and claimed Wall attempted attempted at at- tempted to attack a girl I 1 am sitting down In the electric chair to die Patton said If It U t was to be done over again I would do just what I did There isn't anything 1 I would change changa Dumas admitted an attack on a white girl while he was a fugitive from the Oklahoma penitentiary I feel teel fine Ine Where Im I'm going there wont won't be no white or no black side I he s said ld I 1 got nothing against no no- no-I no body