Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-03-18 | Page 8 | Blind Man Saved Electric Chair

BLIND MAN SAVED ELECTRIC CHAIR I O N Y March arch 13 11 II Cy By The Associated Press Har Harry ry W Cowan blind slayer or of orE E Edith Durton Burton was pulled from the IhlOw of the th electric chair laic Thur Thursday day as ax ho and two other men Were vera preparing to pay ny with theIr liver for tor murders they hAd committed as the tho th result olove of oJ love tove affairs Cowan was saying a last taro faro farewell well to hie hi daughter In the loath house when n a keeper ran up with the word that Governor Smith h had d commuted the tho death Sentence to life lite Imprisonment The Information mation mAtton had to 10 bo be Shouted to for tor Immediately Miss MIls Burton was AI wa killed 1 Ir he allot himself In the head and besides beshler forfeiting his hi sight and his sense ot of ha ho became becam partly deaf dear Good he exclaimed when the Import o ot of th the pcr's kc-pcr's kc pers per's message became clear to him The Th gov- gov governor Kov ov will never nver regret t this 00 op