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Show MURDERER GOES TO i CiiMTUB I Gordon Hamby Meets Death ! Maintaining to Last Iron Com-; Com-; posure and Boasting I OSS1NING. N. Y., Jan. 30 The body of Gordon Fawcett Hamby, notorious no-torious murderer and bandit who was j electrocuted in Sing Sing prison last i night for the murder of two officials i of a Brooklyn savings bank in December, Decem-ber, 1918, will be buried today. No one ' claimed the body and the ruystery surrounding sur-rounding his parentage whicli he had studlousb guarded remained unsolved. : An autopsy disclosed that tho brain of the youtbtul criminal was "normal" and we'll developed. Hamby maintained his composure to the last, smiling as h) was strapped; Lo the chaii and making a brief oral statement to the warden and witnesses! just before life was snuffed out. As he left the death house he called out to his companions: "Goodbyo fellows! fel-lows! I always liked to try everything every-thing once." The murderer gave three letters lo the warden, asked him to mail them and keep tl:C addresses secret. Gordon Fawcett Hamby, niurdortr, bank robber and train bandit, whose crime record reached from coast to coast and culminated in the murder of two Brooklyn bank employes In December. De-cember. 191S v,as electrocuted in Sing Sing prison last night. , Hamby maintained to the Inst the Iron composure which marked his demeanor de-meanor irom the hour of his arrest in Tacoma, Wash., last June. He refused the offer of the Protestant and Roman Catholic chaplains to accompany him to ihe chair and walked to his death unaided and with a firm step. After he had seated himself he turned to Warden Lawes and asked permission to make a statement. In a clear voice which betrayed not the slightest symptom symp-tom of emotion, he said: "I want to say that anyone who had the misfortune, for indeed, it" was a misfortune, to come in front of Jay B. Allen's gun. had a chance and a good chance. That's all. Go ahead boys." 1 From the time of his trial, Hamby had insisted that his right name was : Jay B. Allen. i ilamby spent his last day in the i death house writing letters in his cell, i reading newspapers and ".talking" with ' the ouija board. He expressed relief t when he learned that an eleventh hour 1 efforj to get Gov. Smith to give him a repiievc had failed. I When asked what he wanted for sup- pc-i", Hamby ordered lobster salad, of whMi he ate heartily. He then proceeded pro-ceeded lo enjoy some of the cigars and candy which his companions in the 'death house had furnished him. Father William E. Cash in, the Roman Ro-man Catholic chaplain, this afternoon spent ti half hour with the condemned (man who' did not actually refuse spiritual spir-itual consolation but requested the priest and Rev. Dr. A. N. Peterson, the Protestant chaplain, not to accompany 'him in his walk lo the chair. I When asked by Father Cashin if he I had any message for the youth of the country, Hamby said: j "I don't wish to appear in the light of a moralist but you can tell them for , me never to start doing wrong. Once you get started in crime you can never stop." I nn |
