Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-28 | Page 2 | Negro Murderer to be Electrocuted

NEGRO MURDERER 10 BE ELECTROCUTED INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 27. William Ray, colored, 19, was sentenced sentenc-ed to be electrocuted August fifth in criminal court here tonight when a jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in tho first degree. Ray la said to have stabbed to death 14-year-old Martha Huff, a white girl, April 19th. Ray will be the first person to die in the electric chair In this state. When the verdict was read, Ray seemed stunned. He had refused to take the stand and the first words ho spolto all day were when ho was sentenced. sen-tenced. "I didn't mean to kill the girl," he said, "I was overpowered by passion and I didn't know what I was doing." The eighteen witnesses examined today testified Ray enticed the .girl to the river bottom last Monday ev. enlng, assaulted her, stripped her of her clothing, stabbed her thirteen times in the throat and threw the body Into Eagle creek, where it was found tho next morning. The jury was out twenty minutes.