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Show 8 & . t II 7u;o Chicago Murderers Executed ONE GOES TO SCAFFOLD IN GREAT TERROR Other Walks to Gallows Unassisted Unas-sisted and Faces Witnesses Wit-nesses Calmly REMAINING SIX OF DEATH ROW REPRIEVED Chief of Police Protests Against Granting Stays to Murder Gang Men CHICAGO) ct- Mr Two of eight men original! se nt, deed to be h mgf d ii mi' , ook county j;m Luuaj wore executed ex-ecuted at 8.31 o'clock this morning. Thes were Frank Champlone, member mem-ber of the Cardinel" ' murder trust, 1 charged with six murders and a half hundred robberies, and John Henry Reese, negro, convicted ef murdering his w Ife with a hati hi I The six who escaped the noose all of them convicted of murder were eliminated, one by one, by reprieves, stays and commutations, as the result of desperate last-.mlnute lepal efforts. CRIES OP FRIGHT. The hanging of Reese and Champlone Champl-one was without Incident, though Champione was assisted to the gallows gal-lows In a frenzy eif terror and moaned With frirht until the quick drop sil-I sil-I enced his cries. itecse, who professed religious faith i several days ago, walked to the scaffold scaf-fold unassisted and faced the group 1 of vvhnc-sses calmly. Champlone, with Nioholas Viana, had been convicted of the murder of Andrew P. Uovvnian. saloonkeeper, durfrtga hold-up June 24, l,iy. although al-though police connected them wiih many other crimes. CHIEF PROTEST 5 The band was headed by Sam e 'ar-dinelli, 'ar-dinelli, also Implicated in the Bowman Bow-man murder, and likewise sentenced to hang toduy. but for whom u commutation commu-tation of sentence was obtained. The wholesale deferring of executions execu-tions led Chief of Police Garrity to protest that action of the courts and the board of pardons virtually constitutes consti-tutes "an invitation to gunmen to so j back to their professions." |