| Show ONE SHOCK KILLED HIM an Elec electric trie current slakes short work vork of ft a murderer derer SING SING N Y april 3 james W hamilton a eo colored lorell ex preacher and convicted wife murderer wa was electrocuted in the prison here at 11 0 clock I 1 this morning I 1 the ti tle crime cicino for which lio ho suffered suil erod tho penalty was tho the premeditated murder at windfield Wind neld long island I 1 in may 1892 of annie brooks a colored girl whom hobot lie betrayed rayed and was forced to marry three years before they phoy did not live together and hamilton tried in vain to so secure elare a divorce fiem her he Q expressed pr ossed h s determination to got st rid of her ho decayed her from froin flushing 0 L I 1 chory she NN was as amp employed loyod to windfield windield Wind neld choro ho cut her throat hamiltons death was instantaneous unlike uncil liw all former executions execution i ta there 1 lore was only one cont contact let of electrodes it was mas pronounced tho the most successful execution yet carried out salt lako lake tribune |
