Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel. At 8 p. m., 20 minutes before Hauptmann was to be led to the electric chair, Foreman Freeman asked the prison warden by telephone to delay the execution until the jury had made up its mind. The warden, a Hoffman appointee, announced a postponement of at least 48 hours...
...this Federal hanging in a State which adopted the electric chair in 1913, the U. S. Government had to supply all the equipment. Since no official was familiar with the finer points of the hangman's technique, Phil Hanna was called to do the job for nothing. Some 50 years ago Hanna was shocked by the spectacle of a bungled hanging. Thereupon he took up hanging as a hobby, experimented with plow lines and straw dummies. When he perfected a foolproof method, he volunteered his services to any State that needed...
Following this unique self-castigation from the front office, the News blithely continued to print all the Stretz case testimony it could lay hands on, masterminded over the weekend: VERA TO TELL ALL IN BID TO EVADE CHAIR...
...foundations, to the clanking of the guillotine in the Lowell House courtyard last spring, it has been axiomatic that this college battles as well as travels on its stomach. The mechanical men of Mr. Westcott's organization lack the human touch, and the call for an endowed chair in food tasting grows ever louder. Such a bequest would be a noble contribution for Harvard's Anniversary year...
...wild despair when Roberta tells him she is going to have a baby. In a final burst of speed, the drama skips the actual murder, winds up with a half-symbolic, half-realistic trial scene, which concludes with the voices of the jury sending Clyde to the electric chair...