Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-25 | Page 4 | Mr. X Operates Sing Sing Chair

Mr X Operates Sing Sing Chair OSSINING N N. Y Aug 25 UP UPI For For the first time In 13 years Robert Elliott did not pull the switch last night when a murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer died in Sing Sings Sing's electric chair Ailing AUing for two months Sing Sings Sing's official executioner was supplanted by an executioner incognito when Arthur Perry year old Queens n negro e g r o o. o stepped into the chair and died for wife wite murder Warden Lewis E E. Lawes said the substitute whose name he would not reveal was a master electrician chosen from applicants New York state pays and expenses for each man executed