Show Harvey Church Church- S is us I H Hanged ng d for Double Murder Hunger and Silence Strike Ends W When en Executioner 1 r Springs Trap on Death Scaffold Scaffold Scaffold fold CHICAGO March 3 By Dy United Press Harvey Church half dead Press Press Harvey 7 hurc from fAm a hunger strike of three forty-three days was days was taken from his cell cell cot cot and and hanged at the Cook county jail at p. p m. m today He paid with his hs life for the tho murder murder murder mur mur- der of two automobile salesmen whom he ha lured to his home and murdered with the tha object of obtaining possession possession possession posses posses- I sion of an expensive automobile As Church was carried to the gallows gal gal- lows a final plea to save him was was as made before Judge It was futile The trap was sprung six minutes ahead of the scheduled time CHICAGO March 3 After After lying on his jail cot for cot for forty days Jays without t opening his eyes or uttering a word Harvey Church today broke his silence five hours hours before he was scheduled tobe to tobe tobe be be h hanged banged for the brutal murder of Bernard Daugherty and Carl Ausmus automobile salesmen whom he he lie beat to death to obtain a car to show off in his home town of Adan VIs A plea from his his' mother caused aus dJ Church to speak Your father and mother are here Harvey Warden Varden Vest Westbrook brook told the convicted man Your mother begs you to talk to her her and and you have only five more hours to live Will you talk to them 7 The youthful murderer f whose twitching eyelids have been the only outward sign of ot life Ufe during his self self- imposed n i ro l of ot silence allence turned over on one side and mumbled What did you say say asked the warden warden war war- varden war var- den leaning over the prisoner f Father arid and mother yes mother yes came back bacle in low but plainly understood words 5 The prisoner tossed back and forth several times as his parents were brought Into the cell lIe He refused to say whether he would voluntarily eat his nis is noonday meal or whether l ether It would be necessary to to- continue the forcible feeding which has kept him alive durIng durIng during dur dur- ing the hun hunger er and silence strike |