The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 20, 1928, Image 8
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Snyder nod Gray Pay Supreme J'r#
ally For Murder
?>ing Sing Prison^ O&sLning, N. Y.,
Jan. J t.? Mr*. Ruth Snyder and
Henry Judd died in the electric chair
tonight, she crying out for forgiveness
and he inaudibly muttering
prayer*.
Mrs. Snydej was pronounced dead
at 11:00 o'clock and Gray at 11:10.
Both hud been announced resigned
to their fate by their spiritual advisers
shortly before time for the
r executions, and they walked to the
chair without assistance. Neither had
been given any opiate or stimulant
of any sort.
As each sat in the chair, a priest,
for Mrs. Snyder, and a minister, for
Gray, murmured prayers.
The execution was carried through
without the slightest hitch. Just before
11 o'clock Warren Luwes called
the official witnesses, four doctors
and 20 reporters, into his office and
told them that the time had come.
Briefly he outlined the procedure,
to avoid possible confusion, and then
all started for the death chamber.
The way led outdoors across the
prison grounds, into a walled court
and so through a door directly into
the death chamber.
This is a large bright room, about
f)0 feet square, with four doors, four
short benches for witnesses and tho
chair.
There are no other furnishings.
The plaster walls are a light cream
and the floor stone. It is a room
giving no impression of sadness but
for the central chair with its straps
and metal.
Besides the official witnesses, seven
doctors, half a dozen guards, the j
executioner, his assistants and .the
warden were the only ones in the
room.
After all had entered and scarcely
before the witnesses had seated
themselves or found standing room
along the walls, Mrs. Snyder was
brought in.
She entered through a door bohind
the chair over which a large
sign bearing the one word "silence"
was fastened.
At first her utterances were incomprehensible
beyond the fact that she
whs railing on the deity.
"Have mercy on my soul" were the
firRt words plainly distinguishable.
Aa she was strapped in.the chair
by four guards, the matrons stood
between her and the witnesses. As
the prison priests murmured prayers,
she was asked if she had any last
word.
Then suddenly she seemed to realize
to the full the imminence of
death and pulled herself sharply
erect. Her voice came in a shrill
tense emotion.
"Forgive them, Father," she cried,
in this strange unnatural voice, "for
they know not what they do."
She was silent then, and as if at
some unseen signal, the black mask
was placed o\er her face ami the executioner,
Robert Klliott, standing in
ji little alcove, pulled down the
switch.
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It teemed to watcher* th*t death
wan so sudden it munt have been entirely
painless. There was no strug>
gle and no outcry.
Gray immediately followed, and the
process wa? repeated. When he was
aaked if he had any word, however,
he made no response, merqjy continuing
hi* soundless prayers, and
the mask was strapped in place.
Warden laiwes stood about ten
feet to one sidefrjaf the chair during
both electivetjfrons, but he kept
his head bowed, and, so far as coulJ
be told, he did not once look at either
prisoner.
As soon a- Gray had been pronounced
dead, Warren Lawes opened
the door into the walled court, and
the sole procession of witnesses back
to the warden's office bonin,
When the office was reached, the
main door was thrown open.
"All right, boys," a guard called to
the reporters among the witnesses,
and all dashed to their waiting ears.
There was a mad race of roaring
engines then for half a mile to the
roadhouse, where two score telegraph
wires had been installed to
carry the news reports of the executions.
Last Messages of Ruth and Judd
Oasining, N. Y., Jan. 13.?Hope
that her life would serve as a lesson
to the world was expressed by Mrs.
Ruth Snyder in a conversation
with attorneys shortly before
her execution, while Henry Judd
Gray told his attorney that he real-,
ized that enormity of his crime and
agreed that justice must be served.
Mrs. .Snyder was sitting in a chair
with her head in her arms when
Kdgar F. Hazleton, Dana Wallace and
Joseph Lonando, of her counsel,
visited her shortly before 9 o'clock.
"I forgive everybody who holds
anything against me," they quoted
her as saying. "Please tell everyone
that I bear no malace."
Ivonardo, who remained with her
until 9:15, said when he asked Mrs.
Snyder whether she had any last
message, she pointed to the clock
which showed it to be 9:05.
"1 have an hour and forty-five
minutes to live," she told him. "I
am very very sorry. I have sinned
and 1 am paying dearly for it. 1
only hope that my life?that I am
giving up now?will serve as a lesson
to the world."
"I asked her how she felt toward
Judd," said Lonardo, who quote!
Mrs. Snyder as saying: "Well, we
sinned together, and I guess we will
go together, God knows where." ;
"I asked her about the child, what
she hoped for the child. She said:
If I had my life to love over ugain,
I would want to be what I want my
child to be?a good girl."
Samuel L. Miller, counsel for Gray,
who remained with his client until
after 9 o'clock, reported he left him
entirely resigned.
Giay, said Mr. Miller, "feels that
his punishment is entirely just. He
parted in tears from his mother. It
was most affecting.
He is spending his last tninutcs
writing letters thanking people who
have written him consoling letters
or sent him gifts of books and other
things.
"He indulges in no self-pity. He
realizes the enormity of his act. He
said that the only regret he felt in
dying for his crime was the suffering
that he was bringing on his family,
His mother and his sister and his
brother-in-law.
"Previously he had said to me,
it was a cruel crime and justice
had to be done, but still I feel that
I am not a criminally disposed man
but one who became involved in
a terrible deed without knowing
why. 1 don't know yet. I have
never been able to understand whv
I did it."
"He spoke only in kindest terms
of Ruth. He said, 'we both sinned.
I have nothing to say against her.'
"He was astonishingly cheerful
and said: '1 am now at peace with
my fellow men and G<xl."
Officers Saturday were seeking an
unknown slayer who fired into a cabin
on a farm near Gray Court Thurs_
(ia> Highland kilied R. C1pvp1?.^i
Smith, farmer.- Smith's body was
found several hours after his death.
A shattered pane of glass showed
j where the load of abot was fired
horn without the ^vuilding. Sheriff's
forces said little evidence was found
i at the scene of the slaying.
Contract to build the Piedmmu
Print Works near Taylors, at an estimated
cost of $1,000,000, will hv
let in Greenville on January 30, :t
was announced here. The company
pbins to construct a village of sixty
houses and homes for their employes.
Benjamin Adger Hngood. attorney
and president of the South Carolina
Power Company, died at h - home
Charleston at 11:30 o'clock Frida.
night after he hat! been seriously
ill about two weeks. He was dl
yCar?n A practicising attorncfor
10 years, he was member of the
firm of Ha good. Rivers and Young
at the time ot his death.
The temperature range in the
Sahara Desert, the. largest desert in
the world, is as much as forty degrees
between day and night.
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IN THE CAROLINA8
Krmh of InUrtui Glesurd from Newipaper*
of Two States.
M. S. Edge, a farmer of White Oak,
N. t ., was acquitted by a jury of the I
charge of killing a neighbor, Charles
V. Owen, by iH>i?oning a watermelon
last July. The watermelon wan taken
from the field of Edge,
Walter II. Wilson, 47, prominent
farmer of near Huuternville, N. C.,
and brother of a former mayor of
Charlotte, died at Charlotte from concussion
of the brain when he fell
while alighting from an automobile
and struiK hie head on a concrete
roadway on the Statesvile highway.
The man who had lived in Hickory,
N. C\, longest, A. S. Abernethy, aged
7H, who came there as a boy, died
there Sunday. He was born in Catawba
county and was a prominent
business man in Hickory for yeara.
He was a charter member of the
Methodist Church there and one of
its stewards.
A burly negro attacked a doctor's
wife in her home at Lexington, N, C.,
smothered her screams with one hand
and tore off her clothing with the
other, and just before she collapsed
from exhaustion and terror, the
standby timq a radio station ended
and the announcer begun to talk
through a loud speaker in the room.
The negro at the sound of a man's
voice ran away and escaped*
A negro who fits the description of
the one who attacked a Lexington, N.
C., physician's wife and was chased
away by a voice over the radio was
shot and killed by W. A. Baker, superintendent
of the Kaleigh sanitary
department while the negro was trying
to break into a home in thai
city. Mr. Baker was exonerated by
the coroner's inquest. The negro,
Jack Huggins, completed in December
a six months' sentence in Wake
county.
Rev. Dr. J. E. Abernethy, a prominent
Methodist divine of the North
Carolina conference and formerly
pastor of Trinity church at Charlotte,
was seriously injured in an automobile
accident near Maiden last Saturday.
He remained comatose for a
long time, and his surgeons fea1pneumonia
from injuries to his lungs.
He will be in the hospital at Statesville
for months, if he lives. He is
presiding elder of the Statesville
district. The accident | occurred
twenty miles above Statesville when
his car collided with one from South
Carolina.
The only time his mother neglected
to put a screen before the fireplace
when going to visit a sick neighbor,
little Benny Harper, two years old,
at Durham, ignited his canton flannel
nightgown while helping his little
sister cut out paper dolls and
burn the scraps of paper and was
burned to death, dying after two
hours of agony. The mother left the
children asleep in bed and expected
to return before they awoke. The
baby's entire body was burned.
The farmers around Hamlet, N.
C., are planning to grow sunflower
seed which will be profitable with
the recent establishing of a mill
there.
Mrs. Bessie Otren has sued Harrison
Troutman, of Statesville, N. C.,
for $10,000 damages for killing her
husband the night of December 27
by shooting him. Troutman is under
indictment for first degree murder.
Over two hundred men of Morganton,
N. C? spent Sunday night hunting
a negro who tried to drag a young
white girl from her bed through a
window. Croat excitement relgnetT,
the fire department trucks were utilized
to afford search lights, and all
the surrounding country was scoured.
Mrs. Cornelia S.' Pickens, o f Hendersonville,
willed about $40,000 *to
the North Carolina conference of the
Methodist Protestant church and the
First Methodist Episcopal church of
Hendersonville, N. C., Her library
and that left by her husband, a
-promlTTFnt attorney now dead, wa?
left to the city library-there. '
A woman arrested for trafficking
in narcotics with a $5,000 stock of
drugs on hand, near Charlotte, had
a big bank account with some large
deposits shown in her hank book
in the Inst few months, showing
large profits. Her name is Mrs.
Harry Rea, and in her home in
Charlotte the police found a stock
of drugs after a farmer telephoned
about seeing her and her * negro
: chauffeur, Henry Kennebraw, hide
! something in the woods from a costly
j automobile. Papers found on the
' woman indicate that she did a big
business in a number of North Caro
lina towns and cities. Her husband
is now serving a Sentence at Utant*
for dealing in narcotics.
The . legislative committee of the
State Teachers' association, at its recent
meeting determined to spoMOr
a compulsory attendance Uw
will * Assure the co-operttloti frf
parents and get the'' children IfAo
GOATS GO TO MtAZflL I!
KourtMa Mm f*W Bucks ||
l/Oiitd Absurd B*^rMi Car. ||
Eighteen Nubian milk goats, each 11
in an extra large crate with proven-1
der and water eufficieht to laat for |
several days, were loaded at the ,See* |j
board station yeeterday by the Amer-|
icau Railway Express Company qp |
board an express car for New York!
from which port they will be shipped
aboard the steamer Dalrooulh to |
Kio de Janerio, Brazil.
The goats, to be used at breeding |
stock on a ranch in South America, |
were from the milk goat farm con-1
ducted by Mrs. Belie V. Miller whose
place is located about nine miles |
from Columbia, one mile off the Jef-1
ferson Davis highway. Mrs. Miller,!
who has been in the business of rais-|
ipg goats for about fifteen years, has I
been shipping goats'.for some time|
but the shipment yfss^rday was the!
largest she ha* made since coming |
to the State and she was right in the J j
car yesterday to sec that everything | j
was ship sh.apc before the car was |
locked. . I
The goats will be on the water 30
days ufter leaving New York and the I
crates were made large and airy so I
that the animals would have abun- j
dant space in which to move about ||
The shipment was directed to Velas-||
co aud Company, New York, thisjj
concern making the shipment on tojj
South America. The goats will be
shipped from New York next Tues-j)
day. * p
Mrs. Miller has on her farm a j]
herd now of about forty-five milk |
goats, the shipment of eighteen hav- I
ing depleted it considerably. She I
brought the nucleus of her herd
from Southern California, and after |
visiting several other states, came to I
Columbia. She said yesterday that
she hoped she was located "for I
good" now. |j
The milk of the Nubian goat is |
said to be held in high esteem by L
dieticians, it being especially suited |
it is said, for infante and persons suf-1
fering from certain intestinal dis- j
orders.?Saturday's Columbia State.
Young Boy Killed. i
Spring Hill, Jan. 18.?Alva Reynolds,
ten-year-old son of Mrs. Geo.
Pate of the Luckmow section of Lee
I county was run over and killed by a
two-horse wagon loaded with lumber
last Friday afternoon about 3:30,
while on his way from the Lucknow
graded school. The child with some
playmates was playing along the road
and in some way ran between the
wheels of the passing wagon. The
wheels passed diagonally over his
chest severing the artery to the
heart. He was immediately taken to
the home of his uncle, Mr. Hopkins,
nearby, where he died half an hour
later.
His Body Brought Here.
The remains of Mr. /John Boykin
who died in Milledgeville last >Yednesday
night were brought here last
Friday for interment in the Camden
cemetery, and the funeral was held
at the grave at 12 m.
He was a native of Camden, where
he lived until a few years ago. He
was the son of Col. E. M. Boykin and
at the age of IB joined the Confederate
ranks Tor the last years of the
war. He is survived by a son
Thomas Ancrum Boykin, of Colum-^
bia and a daughter, Mrs. S. N. Roberts,
of Atlanta, also a sister, Mrs. :
Sallie Boykin Wilson of Charleston
and a brother, Edward Mortimer I
Boykin, Sr., of Camden.
The active pallbearers were Edward
Cantey, Willie Haile, W. E. Johnson,
Jr., C. P. DuBose, Dan Jones, B. H.
Boykin, Jr., A. B. Boykin and Willis
Cantey.
The honorary pallbearers were Dr.
John Corbett, C. H. Yates, C. J. Shannon,
Sr., W. S. Burnet, James deLoache,
Burwell Boykin, Sr., A. J.
Boykin, L. W. Boykin, W. L. DePass,
F. M. Zemp, T. J. Kirkland, W. E.
Johnson, Sr., H. G. Carrison, B. B.
Clarke. Sr.. G. T' Little and f)r S F
Brasington.
The Death of a Good Woman
On last Sunday morning - Mrs.
Sarah Bradley, age 66, departed this"
life. She leaves a large number of
relatives and a great host of friends
in and ai-ound Camden. She was
loved by all who knew her and shall
be missed much. i$he was a faithful
member of the Hermitage Baptist
church. The funeral service was
at Antioeh, near Camden, Rev. C. L.
Norman, her pastor conducted the
service.
Aged Lady Died Here
Miss Bertha Meyers, 81 years of
age, died at the home of her niece,
Mrs. Jacob Hirsch, in this city at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon following
an illness of several weeks. Miss
Meyers came to this country from
Frankfurt, Germany, 20 years ago.
I Funeral set vice* were conducted by
Rabbi F. K. Hiraeh from the family
residence at 1209 Lyttleton street
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
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"News From Mt, Zion
Camden, S. C., rfd 2, Jan. 17?
Things look brighter towards our
church as several piles of lumber
greet the eye in passing. We hope
to start the work in the early spring
as a new church as well as a Sunday
School is badly needed. We have
services every first and third Sunday's
and an invitation is cordially
extended to the public by the pastor,
Rev. Dabney, and his congregation.
Miss Willie Moora Lyles, of Hamlet,.
N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Hildreth, and little son, Charles, of
Wadesboro, N. C., were visitors at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Stokes.
Mr. and Mrs. Waddell Collins, of
Lancaster, spent Sunday with the
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latter's parents, Mr. andlH
Truesdale.
Mr. Luther Stokes spent fl
days in the Camden hospital
ating after a successful openH
the removal of an eye uHl
loss of the eye was caused
cident at a saw mill east
Wallace Stokes is at hontfl
after a two years stay In Minfl
The B. Y. P. U. had *
meeting at the home of Mr.
R. L. Stokes Sunday evena?
meets next Sunday at our chujB
all are cordially invited.
Mr. Tom Shiver, d? Clfl
N. C., spent Sunday with hUj
at the home of Mr. and MhB
Stokes.
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