Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-06 | Page 5 | Man Electrocuted for Death of Girl

MAN ELECTROCUTED FOR DEATH OF GIRL BELLEFONTE Pa May 6 UP Robert Allan Edwards was executed exe exe- executed in the electric chair at Rock Rock- I exe le lew prison on at 1235 a. a m m. today All effo efforts ts is to save his life or postpone his lis death were unavailing He died silently and bravely He was in love lo with Freda McKechnie McKechnie Mc- Mc Kechnie a neighborhood girl in Edwardsville Edwardsville Ed- Ed wardsville whom he had known all his life He went away to school met Margaret Grain of ot E East t Aurora Auora Au- Au ora rora rora N N. Y She was WM a music teacher teach- teach er r well educated cultured and had social ocial standing He made love to her obtained her troth Then Freda told old him she was to become a moth- moth er r. r He took her to a mountain lake ake lake killed her with a blackjack left lett her body in the water hoping it would appear she had drowned by accident It was for lor this crime that he was was executed