Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-27 | Page 2 | Doomed Eva Coo Hopes for Reprieve

DOOMED EV EVA A COO HOPES HOPES' FOR REPRIEVE O OSSINING INING N. N Y June 27 UP PE P- P E Eva Coo doomed to die in the elec electric elec chair tonight clung desperately today to hope of oC an hour eleventh-hour reprieve from Governor Herbert Lehman Men who have studied the legal currents which carry carr convicted killers through the tho death hous house believed be- be she was grasping a straw Also hoping against hope for a reprieve was Leonard He too oo is under tinder sentence to die to tonight to- to night S Mrs Coo was convicted of ot the insurance slaying sla ing of Harry Wright handy landy man at her roadhouse near Cooperstown conviction was s for the holdup killing of a Rensselaer detective was sentenced for the slaying of Detective James A. A Stevens Stevens Stevens Ste Ste- vens during the holdup of the Rens- Rens County Bank and Trust company company com corn pany in May 1933 1033 He obtained three reprieves by giving information information information tion about an Albany I