Word: electrocutioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back...
Not since the New York Daily News ghoulishly sneaked a picture of Murderess Ruth Snyder*dying in Sing Sing's electric chair, in 1928, had such a death-house hullabaloo stirred the U.S. press. Chicago's lusty, raucous Herald-American had started it by running a Page One...
An autopsy was not performed on Harbury, since his family and Cambridge Medical Examiner Leo Myles were satisfied that electrocution had caused death.
Dr. Leo Myles, Cambridge medical examiner, said, however, he was convinced electrocution was the cause of death.
Beatty's life was never in danger once he entered the ambulance, doctors at McLean hospital revealed last night. They ventured that the insulating effect of his coat and jacket may have saved him from electrocution.