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Show SING SING 'DEATH BEE' WILL ? ! SNUFF OUT LIVES OF EIGHT, j ' I The Sins Sing death clmlr nml five oT the men who will die In it In I tho "ITanglng Bee." J..crt (0 right, top row James Cusskl.v nnd Joseph j Uscfof". Lower, left to right Leo Jankowskl, Charles McLaughlin nnd Joseph Mllano. BY LORRY A. JACOBS. 1 N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. J NEW YORK, May 29. The stage Is all set at Sing Sing Prison, Os-slnnlng,. Os-slnnlng,. N. Y., for the most ghastly "death party" In the pen's history Beforo tho end of May, unless tho arm of law - reaches out to halt It, eight men will go to their death in the same electric chair. James Cassidy, Joseph Mllano, Charles McLaughlin and Joseph Usef of were convicted for the slaying of Otto Flalo, Intervale subway guard In the Bronx. Just as they wore about to be executed, May 5, Mllano confessed, saying the other three wcro innocent, and Governor Smith wired a reprieve for two weeks or moro. Sliaking Dice With Fate. It was remembered, when news of the confession came out, that the four men were said to have thrown dlco to decide which one should tako tho entire blame. All four denv tills. Miss Silvia Uscfof, sister of one of tho men, has been working night and j day to obtain a new trial. Loo Jankowskl and Walter Levan-dowskl Levan-dowskl killed Keeper John Gunther In Dannemora prison. Jankowskl, suffering with tuberculosis, has asked that his execution be hurried that he may escape the pangs of coughing. Lovandowski's request that he be electrlcuted on May 2C, his birthday, has been refused. He was to die tho day following. Calls Affair Horrible. John Byrd shot a Kingston policemen police-men and William Byrd murdered a Buffalo Pullman porter. "Although we are compelled to do our duty," said Warden Lawes, "it Is a horrlblo thing to think of snuffing out eight lives in one week. It has cast sort of a gloom over the whole prison." Ten ether executions have been scheduled for this spring. |