Word: judd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Machinal. It is related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls...
...mustn't read that," her mother would say, when Jane Gray picked up a newspaper, "that's too old for you." An obedient child, Jane Gray never learned that her father, Judd Gray, had been tried and executed for the murder of Albert Snyder. She was however informed that he was dead and that before his death he had written a series of letters one of which she would receive every year on her birthday. Last week, Jane Gray received the first of these letters. Newsgatherers wished to know its contents but Jane Gray refused to tell them...
...Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever since...
Thanks chiefly to the dramatic nature of the trial and execution not long ago of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the question of capital punishment has come up again. Much opinion has been aired, editorially and otherwise, and conclusions have been varied. From lively descriptions of ghostly apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time...
...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...