Show Sheriffs Sheriff's Clerk Dies for Slaying SAN QUENTIN Call Cal Oct 15 UP Arthur UP-Arthur Arthur R R. R Eggers year 54 old former Los Angeles sheriffs sheriff's clerk was executed in the San Quentin prison lethal gas chamber Friday for the 1945 19 mutilation murder of his wife Eggers was pronounced dead at 1012 a am a.m. m nine minutes after the tiny green death chamber was flooded with gas The frail bespectacled little clerk went to his death denying that he beheaded his wife Dorothy and hid her mutilated body in the San Bernardino mountains Shot her I may have Eggers declared but I never cut her up |