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Show oo TWO SLAYERS PAY EXTREME PENALTY OSS1N1NG. N Y.. Sept. 1. Luther Koddy. ngro slayer of William .Miller , iind Krancls Buokley, two New York I Olty detectives, and Herbert Smith, conyicted of the killing of Postmaster Postmas-ter Lewis Johnson, .',1 Xinev.-h Jihk-tlon. Jihk-tlon. X. Y., In 1919. paid the d-ath penalty in the electric chair at Slni-sing Slni-sing prison Thursday. Boddy was the first to be put to death. He was placed in the electric chair ut ii:n" and vn.is pronounced dead five, minutes later Smith w.is placed in the . hair it 11 ns and waa pronounced dead at 11.17 Smith's eh ctro utlon made the two hundredth I xei ntion in bmfr Slnp prison slm tho leclric' chair first was Introdiji .1 July 7, 1891. Bol h ofen .i ppea e,j unmo ed up to the time they were led Into tiie deatu chamber. |