Show LAUGHS AS DEATH AWAITS negro murderer asks delay of execution to read jokes but law Is in insistent Ins Insi latant stant tr trenton enton N J when father edward 0 C griffen the catholic chaplain of the new jersey state prison visited williams diamond a negro mur murderer derm in his cell here to tell him that everything was in readiness for hla his execution diamond demurred lie he was s reading a comic paper and laughing at the jokes and pictures tho the hurry he asked cant they wait till I 1 finish this ahta paper the priest explained that being executed did not admit of delay other than legal all rig right ht said diamond but I 1 would like to finish that paper alamond pl amond known as black diamond reluctantly dropped tho the paper and went to his bis death ile ha was the least concerned man who had bad anything to do with the execution ile ho had told the guards that while he was a trusty in another prison lie he rad nad seen a man electrocuted and that the operation had al ways always interested him ile he watched closely while state electrician Electric tan davis strapped him in the death chair just before the mask was fastened ho he shouted so that five condemned men in nearby cells could hear him goodby good by boys then turning to the guards he said all right let em go it took four shocks to kill the negro dlack black diamond was sent to prison for holding up an automobile party on september t 21 with another he ase tried to escape and when intercept ed by Keeper ell D B Ste he shot and killed hilled stetser |