Show legal hanging in record time Mayfle ld ky the hanging of al len matthas the negro who criminally assaulted miss ethel mcclain on the took place tuesday in a legal manner in the yard of the county jail fully 10 people were on the scene but only a few hundred could see the execution although almost the entina fence surrounding the scaffold had been torn down by the enraged zens while the trial was going on it was only fifty after the time the jury was sworn in until the ne gro was pronounced dead |