Show Rape-Killer Rape of Year Old Girl Dies in Arizona Gas Cell S FLORENCE Ariz Arts Feb eb 19 UP A Tim Jim Jini Rawlins 46 died In Anzona's Arizona's Arizona's Ari Ari- f zonas zona's lethal gas chamber Friday as the state exacted its toll for forthe forthe the rape and murder of Marylin Erma Atkins Rawlins left death row at 6 a. a m. m and had been strapped in a chair in the tiny white death room Eight and a a. half minutes later Warden A. A G. G Walker told the the witnesses crowded near the glass partition that Rawlins was dead The former machinist who ravIshed ravIshed ravished and then strangled to death the year old ld girl in Morenci August 29 1942 spent his last h hour ur with two Presbyterian ministers ministers ministers minis minis- the Rev Elbert N Nash sh of Morenci and the Rev S. S B. B Han Hanah h the prison chaplain Silence is is' golden was all aU Rawlins Rawlins Rawlins Raw Raw- lins would say before he left the cell he has occupied since September September Sep Sep- 15 I Bare and dressed only in his gray prison trousers Rawlins Rawlins Rawlins Raw Raw- I lins walked up the stairs calmly and said nothing while the straps were adjusted to his arms and legs After he entered the tiny cubicle the two went ministers ministers went in inand inand inand and patted him on the back anc and then stepped outside He followed them with his eyes eyes and looking at them through the rooms room's window window window win win- dow smiled as the poison gas began circling from the the- solution in the earthen cro crock k at his feet Rawlins the father of two small smal girls was the sixth forty-sixth person to be executed by Arizona and the eighteenth man to die in the gas chamber since it replaced the gallows in 1934 |