Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From then on the Earl of Reading, Viceroy of India, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-1921), was admittedly in a most awkward position with respect to the Maharaja of Indore. The British forced the execution of three of the Indians who were implicated and the banishment of four...
The chief prize (gold medal) was given "for distinguished personal service in advertising" to Ernest Elmo Calkins, President of Calkins & Holden, Manhattan agency. Originally a printer, Mr. Calkins studied art because he knew that good typography must follow the principles of design. In 1902 he went into partnership with Ralph...
In the state of Delaware survive many of the customs which rendered English justice so deadly a century and a half ago. Latest achievement of this commonwealth which still champions the whipping post is a popular, public hanging. A crowd which the spectators at the old Newgate prison would have...
The Court was human. Although five of its members had refused to stay the execution, it considered the appeal in spite of the irregularity. The Court was also firm. The appeal was denied.
Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought...