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Show I TONG MEN DOOMED TO GAS EXECUTION ! I House of Creeping ' Death to HavcTest Chinese 'Killers' Convicted in Nevada Face Lethal Chamber While Legal Battle Rage3 BY GENE COBS. CARSON CUT. Kev'u Feb. 0. The House of Creeping Death" Is Cheduled to have its first try-out between April 16 and April .2. That I- the tinio fixed for the ex-0f ex-0f ., ,.i ii (hie sine and .. -Ton, murderers, under Nevada's new state n providing for the killing by lethal Li of persons sentenced to death. Unless the United States supreme rourt wills otherwise, these two Chinese Chi-nese tons members will bo led from murderers' row where a death watch already has been set over them t to become "test subjects" for the u world's first lethal gas executions, .' in the meantime, the prisoners wait with fatalistic calm, wholly unaware H .1 the national attention they are V f ttraoti ng li I i G i D WTLE 1 1 Pi j in (h meantime, loo, a bitter legal P battle has opened In Nevada to stop V ,, us- "i the lethal gas cage ss a , ,, i'm capital punishment Attor-, 1 eya will carry the fight to the high- est courts. But sinr-e the Nevada legislature! ial voted the lethal gas cage the last word In "humane execution." Governor Emmctt Boyle and state ' prison directors are continuing with I plans for its construction and the j deaths of the ' test cases " As for Hughle Ping. If. and Gee Ion, 29, they merely know that thty La.' . onception of thf scientific d via n y '' in of ihe war, that may carry thi i F, tri momcnUr' fame as well as to ' l The wars convicted of a tong 1 murder, jjf llugbb" Sins, who rif.-rd-d At. r Sjaj .an schools but could not forget lee- I sons in tong vengeance learned out-', d the classroom, talks freely. , ajBJ r;,, Jon known the length of 1 1 . BaB Pacific coast as a ' killer." says noth- ', ,f dm. w v KJKE IUVOTH1 R 1 aH Hughle Is more interested' in the P MM ourse of the courts than in thej' means of death if the courts fail. I If I must die, one way Is about ns BBJ bad as another to me." ho says. He can't comprehend what a iethAl ' gas execution Is. EjV "I know I have been sentenced tu ' BBJ ilcath, that Is all." ho says "I do,1 EPj not want to die. but what am I to'1 c M do?" r i The lethal gas execution, popular 9 when legalized by the legislature, has : E9 stirred up a public tempest since the I SajJ day the "test cases" for It were sen-.i r9 tenced. E9J Thousands of protest letters are , 1 BBJ pouring in on state officials, charg- j EBJ tng that lethal gas killing Is 'inhu-,! fc- J msn," is "cruel and unusual punish- i fined torture." No plans have as yet been drawn!; for the "house of creeping death" 1 that will kill Hughio and Gee, This1' is the theory of it, as Governor Pa.yly.l explained it to me DEATTI HOI si' DESCRIBED A small concrete death house. U about Jx7x8, will be built In one cor- . ner of the prison yard. Through one i . I I wall a pipe leads to a large gas tank. This pipe would be operated either , by a Jet or plug, which would bej, manipulated by one of three wlrefe. 'I'hree persons, to be selected bv lot. L would pull the individual wires, v, none would know whic h had turned L on the gas. ! , i n the opposite side of the death . house w ould be an outlet pipe to J, carry off the gas after the exccu-l, tlon. From the center wall six witnesses would be able to watch the victim ' die.1 a small casement window being ( provided for that purpose The law f says that this number of wltnespet ' may attend th executions. Entrance : to the death house would be gain) lj through a small, hermetically sealing' door. Trison officials hold that within a 1 ' few seconds after the condemned man'P ntered the death housc, he would be i ' under the influence of the gas. Chief objection to the lethal gas ' Kllings. -ind the center of the Btorn 1 now gathering, lies in the wording j1 of the law which says that some' time during the week of sentence the ' execution shall take place." I1 Thus, the objectors hold. a man! could live for days of terrible torture, ' never knowing at what moment the 1 deadly gas would be turned on. State and prison officials ln?h;t!' I that they have no Intention of ad-p I ministering the gas in this fashion; ' that the condemned prisoner will be1 notified of the time of his death and ' that the execution will be Immediate. 1 A test will prove whether or not 1 li bal gas is humane, they aay. 1 Atid so, unless the supreme COUTt interferes. Hughle Sing, the high 't school lad, who learned more of tong engennce than of mathematics, and I) 'iee Jon. the calculating "killer" of sun KYanclsco'a Chinatown, will be1 Ihs subjects of that test, ' Hgjjgjjm |