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...coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...
...learn. Our visitations often take the form of trials. The Paritans, in the midst of the hardships which everywhere attended them, yet seized the opportunity which they saw had come, and success rewarded them. How different was the outcome of the efforts of those who persecuted the Hugenots in Francel. Because they knew not the time of their visitation they laid waste their country, destroyed life, and ended by driving out the most useful branch of the French people. We are just beginning to realize what good is coming to us from the heroic efforts of those...
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