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Show . e TT Nevada Nlurderer Executed 4wmxir mmm 53 Witnesses, Including 2 Women, Watch Execution PRISONER SMILES Third Man to Die in Lethal Cell CARSON CITY, Nov., June 2 (As-3isted (As-3isted Press) R. H. "Bob" White, -.Ike gambler, died today In the iethal gas ehsmber st ths Nevada ststs prison here. He hod been convicted con-victed en circumstantial evidence ef the murder ef Louis La veil, another gambler. White was taken at 4: IT a. m. into the stone chamber be helped build en airtight room nine feet long by eight feet wide and seven (eet high . nd strapped Into a chair. Hs smiled snd nodded to the people looking In the window. There were fifty-three witnesses, including includ-ing two women. Before White s chair stood a two-gallon two-gallon crockery jar containing a euart ef sulphuric scld snd half a gallon of wateev palling a-etrtng In the next room opened a container, dropping aearly a dosen ane ounce "eggs" ef cyanide of potassium Into the acid solution. The deadly gaa wss generated almost Instantly. TAKES DEEP BREATH . White nodded again as the gas stsrted to corns up from the generator. genera-tor. Then he took a deep breath, as deep aa he eould take. He leaned back easily. At the third breath his head fell beck. His arms and body twitched aa In a convulsion, thea Vss still. Three minutes after' he entered the death chamber he was apparently apparent-ly dead. White wss not a bit nervous. Hs shook hsnds with the warden and the other two men who helped strap him In the choir. He was dressed In a blue shirt and a pair of overalls. Miss Margaret 8k eater, a Reno nurse, and Mies Msy E. Ksnnsy, another an-other nurse, Carson City, were the women witnesses. They were admit, ted at their own request. DECLINES BREAKFAST White declined breakfast. He went to sleep about It p. ro. and when ths night guard went oft was still asleep. Hd was awakened about half an hour before the execution. -There was no minister present. White wanted none. Ilia last act was writing a letter to hie wife Sunday night. His body will be sent to Oakland for cremation. Officially, the gaa was turned en at c:7 1-1 a. m. White's heart (Continued on page ) GAMBLER GOES TO HIS DEATH IN CAS CHAMBER (Continued from page 1.) stopped beating for ten seconds at -1:29 1-2, and natural breathing stopped st 4:39 1-3. After a lapse of ten seconds the heart started beating beat-ing as;tin, but stopped completely ;it 4:47. nine nnd a half minutes from the time the gas w;is turned on. At the start White's pulse was 10S, contrasted to a normal of 72. One minute after the gas came on his pulse reached 120. At 4:42 his respiration became very convulsive, long and short breaths. At 4:37 J-4 his head fell back, a quarter minute after the gas cam. on. Then he took five deep breaths and hi. head fell forward. From 4:41 to 4:4 1-J his respiration respira-tion wss very convulsive. These figures and data were given out after the execution bv Dr. K. a. llamer, state health officer, who kept a spei ially devised stethe-i"cope stethe-i"cope on the condemned men throughout tho execution proceed ing. THIRD OF KIND White wss the third man to be executed st the NrvsiU penitentiary by the gas method. which was sdoptrd In 19:1. tire Jon. l.'hlneee. waa executed on rebruary t. 1924. for complicity In & -tong murder at Mlna, and Htonko Jukech was executed exe-cuted on May 21. 1:. for the mur-der mur-der at Kuth of his 14-year-old swee.thesrU In the two previous executions exe-cutions th. gs wss forced Into the execution chamber from tsnks and appsrenlly worked faster than the method used today, aa there was no convulsive movement of the men ex. cept a nod of the head. How soon death occurred In the two previous cases Is nut known, as no test was conducted with a stethescope. |