Show t t J. J r r SLAYER BATTLES GUARDS TO DELAY EXECUTION MONTGOMERY Ala June 14 UP Lodies Lodics Joe Mincey 30 Negro slayer of a crippled white man staved off off electrocution electrocution electrocution electro electro- cution for more than an hour e early Friday by barricading himself f in a KUby Kilby prison n dea death h cell The Negro Negro denied denied an hour eleventh-hour bid for clemen clemency y yby by Gov 1 Chauncey Sparks Sparks looped looped bed sheets around the lock of his cell in such uch a way that prison officials were Unable unable un Un- able to unlatch a bolt that would have opened the door When officials pleaded with Mincey to give up the powerful Negro sloshed water on them through the bars and muttered I can do it if I want to Finally at 1 a. a m m. m cst exactly an hour after he was scheduled to die die Mincey acceded to the pleas of State Patrolman Pa Patrolman Patrolman Pa Pa- Otto Dees walked fr m the death cell and calmly changed his water soaked clothing He began to struggle however as he started his bis walk to to- the electric chair and battled for several minutes with seven seven prison officials including pound E E. P. P Gray a aprison aprison aprison prison gu guard rd captain before he was finally strapped into the the chair He was pronounced dead at 1 07 a. a m. m Warden Varden R. R Pitt Williams said an iron bar wrenched from a bed had bad been found in Mincey's cell apparently for fora a stand last-stand battle |