Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-24 | Page 16 | Timely Topics

I Timely T Topics I I NEVADAS NEVADA'S HAUN HAUNTED ED CELL It was thought that Poe hau touched ultimate horror I In The Pit and anti the Pendulum But Poes Poe's height of ot I terror was no more than thana a great swinging blade that I I crept nearer a bottomless pit and fiery walls that closed in upon the victim What manner of ot man can r retain a gleam of ot reason reason in Nevadas Nevada's gas cell What manner of ot man can ever sleep other than the sleep that precedes death from exhaustion How many deaths will he die before he dies that death the court has ordered and the law approved ed Kipling tells of Wall Dad who came to Kabul town to to warn the king of his enemies As the jest of or a j I he is stationed in a peach tree to warn wart of ot their coming The fixed bayonets of a guard were vere below him I It is recorded that by the power of ot God who alone is great he fought with his fate until the seventh day I And Anti sleep the cords of his hands untied And he fell and was caught on the points I and died Nevada has been giving her condemned the choice of ot dying on the gallows or at the hands of a firing squad Doubtless the men who urged and passed this recent I law honestly believed that they were humanizing exe exe- Do they know nothing of the terrors and tortures tortures tortures tor tor- tor- tor tures of ot the imagination Of waiting for tor certain death And It h has been written into American organic I 1 law the constitution of the United States that cruel 1 and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted Phila Phila Philadelphia delphia Public Ledger Lansing never did agree with Wilson and you will notice right after Bobs Bob's book came out the f former president president president dent h had d a severe attack of indigestion Make 1 your own comment Cincinnati Enquirer In days of ot old when knights were bold we bet there thero armament trust that made fine tine was an art a little profit on every suit Fremont Premont Fremont Neb Tribune I Average American ma may be greater milk drinker than than his father but he be hasn't the punch Richmond Times Times Times- Dispatch I N