Show PAYROll BANDIT P PAYS A YS' YS WITH liFE Convicted Murderer Mar Mar- Married ried in U Jail Is Electrocuted TRENTON N. N J J. Aug 6 By By The Associated Press Salvatore Merra was ras executed in the electric chair a athe at atthe atthe the state prison Friday night for the slaying of o Theodore Theodoro O. O Conway a public service cervice paymaster during an unsuccessful holdup in Newark on June 4 4 1926 Only three days das ago a few feet from the death chamber Merra l married narried Jennie of Newark with whom hom he h lived at the time of ot the holdup The ceremony was performed to legitimatize leg e their two and one half son Ln In nearby cells celia four men sentenced to dip W listened to the wedding wadding lines Unea Merra's Merra execution ended one of or the longest legal battles waged for a con- con concI cI nan man in New Jersey His I counsel State Senator Alexander i Simpson carried the case h the state elate courts court and to the federal courts contending that tha a II semicolon had been omitted In th trial Jurys Jury's verdict verdict- Merra was tried in conjunction with his alleged accomplice In In the crime Salvatore The official rec rec- record record record ord of the verdict read We V find the th defendant Salvatore Merra guilty cuilty of ot murder in the first degree and the tho defendant Salvatore guilty of murder In n the first it decree and recommend life imprison imprison- imprisonment on ment at hard haid labor Simpson maintained that the verdict should have h l. e been divided by a semi semi- semicolon semicolon colon rolon if the recommendation for mer mer- mercy mercy cy applied only to All efforts cU to obtain a writ of error failed and the ease case was taken to U. U S. S Supreme Court Justice Dran els at M athis athis his summer bummer home In jn Chatham Mass who also alco refused to issue a II writ |