Show I t MEN o y SAVED i IN ARCTIC r SLAYERS GO J TO DEATH DAI IN KENTUCKY CHAIR I Four White Men Three Negroes Fo Tragic Procession ALL NEAR COLLAPSE One Confesses Charge on onWay onWay Way to Room EDDYVILLE Ky July 13 AP- AP Seven men convicted murderers all I were electrocuted between midnight and o'clock this morning at atthe atthe the state penitentiary here Seven wooden coffins later toda today were ere placed on trestles near the Irson gates awaiting disposition ot of relatives of the executed ones whose bodies in garments garment 1 ested within the boxes Four white men three thre or of them Very cry YO and three negroes made IP the seven wh s deaths e in the tl electric chair set sel a for n Kf-n- t ck Sullen defiant delant rind cind pr ier- ier ful by turns during their stay in the the condemned men were reduced oy fear to a condition condition con con- bordering upon collapse 1 n approached Although there was no clock gong gon gonto to sound the hours the prisoners sensed the time and all talk dIed away long before the d d' d started at 1215 12 15 heads supported supported sup sup- ported in cupped hands they sat fOat li- li lent their bodies shaken by chills despite the intense heat in the Mu t stone house that had been their home in the prison In plain vl view w was the execution chamber and the chair There was no somber darkness inthe in inthe the place Instead there was Continued on page 8 S SEVEN VEN SLAYERS GO O TO rb DEAtH IN KENT KENTUCKY CHAIR tt from page 1 and shadow and polished stee J. T fb men went to the chair fRed ne Lawson J 35 fl l rd lt Corbin 1 Ky leading the w w. lIe ready to forgive everY everY- and was ed ed In quickly dead three minutes laU later s Th The murder of n. n neighbor or In nix mR county had brought him theft the Seymour 21 Louisville w WIt the secund A dramatic attempt at- at tempt n a stay for him last ni t d and he met tate fate In a a. stupor When his succeeded suc In arranging an 11 hearing before the ty ju ite her here shortly alter after 8 Ise he old ld h bl cell erell comp companions that he would at east get out or of the prison ont once more But the warde warded d. d M old Id In and n. n t the star or speakers speakers' sl stand I Ibe being be g us used d as a judges judge's bench When th the judge ruled had had no jug t n. n Se Seymour mour sagged In his and nd dId not spec ln in until the tor his exec execution when hd the murder for tor which been convicted that ot of a l Lb Louisville le merchant ue Dockery Docken 21 l Harlan arlan Ky Iy followed Originally he be had bad been t 1 to dl first t the hum ot of the de death c dynamo the the cell bl block ck he asked for tor a priest explaining that he wished to be a a. Roman Catholic He was Into the church r hours earlier Dockery had had sneered and the ah ashes I from a a. when hen WardEn Chilton read read tM the d death ath warrants Uttering no word wOid h ha dragged slowly lowly Into the chair chamber and as the hood was adjusted ad- ad ju ted started mumbling prayers prayer H waS charged with slaying two women ome I. I arles arles' raul BAtra 23 St. St Louis 1 R. R was as the fourth convicted of th of a grocer In Louisville inan attempted holdup Ile He had bee been rather r disdainful In his attl- attl the guards since the confinement here In three minutes m without making any tte te meat ment l. l le re e negroes negroes apparently nUy crush crusha earlier in the night by bythe the nearness and certainty ot of death recovered spirits sp to a greater degree than h he time came 10 th m to pass pas dO dOJ down J the the corridor of teel and stone the thede de with the chair room Moore 45 Louisville was th to die lie He said nothing James Howard also tj Louisville ent th chamber singing Sweet LIlY Lila of the Valley and as he sank back In the chair waved his hand Gentlemen how are you OJ tonIght 1 The last was CJ CI McQueen 38 Cynthiana hummed a song and paid close attention to the manner in which th were adjusted l of the ex i men had seen seen them for tor the ast after the reading of h death warrants were to be to the bodies away awa today It was thought however er one ne' ne or more might remain to bE b In ih the tiny prison cemetery pat at lies les just o outside the towering walls w Early In the morning a cart and mule st st. od hitched near thE coffins to perform the last q q t the tate state In hauling those th remained down the hill day yesterday esterday a aced td last night Co Fem em D D. Sampson tt at ran 1 fUt way was swamped with petitions peti- peti seeking seeking- clemency clemenc H He re- re ed e the cases tully fully but refused to interfere |