Show RUSSELL SCOTT HANGS HIMSELF Former Young Million Million- Millionaire aire ahe vice Twice Sentenced to Death I CHICAGO Oct 8 By 8 By The As As- Associated Associated Press Russell Russell Scott for for- former former or- or mer met wealthy Canadian bridge pro pro- promoter promoter moter meter who has narrowly escaped gallows gallons sentence following his its con con- conviction convIction on a charge of murder hung himself In the Cook Coo county Jail to to- to night UNUSUAL L U CAREER C Russell T T. Scott at 30 30 was head of a Canadian corporation organized to build a 30 inter Inter- international International international national bridge between een Detroit Mich and Windsor Ontario A few years year ear later after a career care as salesman actor bootlegger and dope dop peddler he was sentenced to hang hong for murder in Chi Chi- cago for the tile death of a drug clerk killed in a robbery In jail awaiting the hangman Scott devoted much of his Isis time to writing books on how ho to succeed d. Before Edore his difficulties overwhelmed him he pro pro- produced produced produced n a dozen do n books on business problems hems lems ems and commercial ethics Ills vol vol- volumes vot- vot umes Humanity and Business and Mind Your Mind were considered red texts of more than mediocre worth His plunge from fortune and social eminence to a n murderers murderer's cell he lie at- at to affairs with women With some 80 branch offices of the bridge corporation In operation throughout Canada Scotts Scott's first des des- descent descent descent cent cams came when Wilen disagreement di devel devel- developed developed among anong associates over his busi bud business business budness ness methods methods- Forced to leave the company com pan he parted with Ill a personal person 1 j Continued on rae Page Two RUSSELL SCOTT HANGS HIMSELF Continued from rare Page One fortune fortuM of ot in settling his affairs Penniless a few months oS later he faced a breach of 01 promise verdict obtained by a young woman formerly employed in his of office ot- ot lice flee Unable to satisfy s the Judgment he fled Canada to launch upon a aa va varied va- va sled ried career in the states lIE HE IS ARRESTED On April 2 1921 he was arrested for tor the murder of ot Joseph Maurer 10 19 Year old clerk in the City Hall phar phar- pharmacy pharm pharmacy macy m lcy opposite the Chicago city hall ball Scott cott admitted the police said he had turned up hold man under the pressure of ot adversity ad and had taken part in 34 robberies In his trial he sought to throw the blame upon his brother Robert He lie insisted d Robert shot the clerk in an en altercation over an on attempted liquor purchase State witnesses refuted toe the story declaring Scott and a second man presumably his brother held up the th store and herded the employees and patrons In the basement After being sentenced to hang on a plea of guilty Scott petitioned for a B new trial changed his plea and was again sen sen- sentenced sentenced aen- aen to the gallows gallo gallosA A heroic fight tight was made by his father to save him from the scaffold by an abiding faith in his hisson hisson hisson son Thomas H. H Scott pauperized himself In an effort to raise funds for a third trial |