Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several days before the execution last week the sensational press tried to inject into it some of the epic quality of the capture. Notably energetic was Hearst's evening Journal. It tried to engineer a last-minute visit of Helen Walsh, the girl friend, to the death house; it...
"Two-Gun" refused to see Miss Walsh (his comment: "The hell with her") ; but to the end he supplied a certain amount of drama of his own kind. He bade a friendly farewell to the warden whose broken wrist was in a sling. Said he: "Gee, I feel sorry for...
Times and Herald Tribune each gave the execution and obituary a column and a half on inside pages. Hearst's morning paper, the American, limited its report to less than two columns. One of its reporters in the death chamber was Rev. Charles Francis Potter, publicity-craving founder of...
The nine capitals decorated with pure design show that combination of strength and delicacy, that supreme skill in execution, which is characteristic of the best Burgundian work of the twelfth century. In the figured capitals, however, the interest is even more intense. A brief discussion of the iconography or subjects...
In Khabarovsk, Siberia, four railwaymen of the famed Trans-Siberia Railway were arrested for "gross criminal negligence," swiftly tried and sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense?execution by shooting."