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Show Colorado Ax Slayer Grins As Lethal Fumes End Life! CANON CITY. Colo.. Jan. T UPt Almost dutifully, Joe Arridy, a 2J-yer-old elayer with a f-ye.r-old mind, sat grinning in the Colorado prison gas chsmber, then opened his mouth and took three deep gulps of poison gas that quickly snuffed out his life. Arridy, convicted of the ax slaying slay-ing and ravishing of a schoolgirl, was pronounced dead at f :lv p. m. laat night, six and ons-fourth minutes after the gas was released re-leased In ths windowed, chimneyed chim-neyed chamber on a rocky slop behind the prison. The execution, postponed nln times, was th seventh in the gaa chsmber. The condemned men smiled blankly as ha walked to the gs chsmber between Warden Roy Best and the Rev. Albert Bchsl-ler. Bchsl-ler. O. 8. B., prison chsplsin. "I wnnt to play tha harp like lha padre told me," Arridy told Best whsn the warden asked if he still wanted to "raise chickena In heaven." Best, who gave Arridy tha toy that kept him happy during hia more than 1 montha In a death cell, patted the condemned man'e arm while he waa blindfolded and atrapped In tha death chair. Then Beet alepped out while Father Schaller leaned forward and said "Good-by, Joe." "Give my train to Agnee." Arridy Ar-ridy said during th death walk. He had promised the toy, a Christmas Christ-mas gift from ths warden, to An-gelo An-gelo Agnea, Denver negro convicted con-victed of wife graying. Araldy escaped from a state home for mental defectlvee a few weeks before Dorothy Drain, IS, waa slain with a hatchst and criminally asaaulted August It, IMa, In her Pueblo, Colo., home. Her sister, Barbara, 12, also waa beaten, but recovered. Frank Agullar, 43, convicted with Arridy of th attack, waa executed August 11. 1937. |