Eye Witness Describes Electrocution Of
Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
By REMLIN MORIN
OSSINING, N.Y. UP)—In Ossining,
where Sing Sing Prison is located,
the night was quiet as the fixed
hour for the execution of Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg approached.
Heavy details of police and state
troopers, guarding temporary bar
ricades, met no demonstrators.
Two telephone lines were opened
between the office of Warden Wil
fred L. Denno and Washington—
presumably to be in touch with
the White House and the office of
Attorney-General Herbert Brown
ell.
The Rosenbergs spent most of
their last day together. Warden
Denno said they talked from
about noon to 6:20 p.m. (EST) in
the woman’s wing of the prison.
They were separated by a wire
screen.
The party of official witnesses
entered the death chamber a few
moments before 7 p.m. It is a
squai^ room. Behind the electric
chair was a white, wheeled table.
In front were four rows of bench
es, like pews in a church.
The black helmet was placed
on Rosenberg’s head. Then the
black straps were fixed around
his chest, and the other electrode
was set against his right leg. The
trouser had been slit so that the
leg was bare from the knee down.
The guards stepped away. A
signal was given to the execution
er, in an alcove to the left of the
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room.
A metallic rattle sounded. It
sounded like marbles rolling down
a metal washboard. Then it
stopped. The room was filled with
a humming buzz.
Rosenberg’s chest bulged, and
strained against the straps. His
fists clenched in tight knots. His
neck and shoulders turned crim
son.
There were three massive char
ges of electricity. The first lasted
three seconds, the second and the
third, 57 seconds each. He was
dead in 2% minutes.
The humming stopped. It was
7:06% o’clock.
Then Ethel Rosenberg, 37,
walked in. She wore a shapeless
green dress with no belt.
Unlike her husband, she looked
around the room. Again the black
helmet, straps and leg contacts
were set in place she closed her
eyes.
The chamber was hot. There
was no sound except the half
whispered words of the Rabbi.
Then the switch was thrown
and the metallic rattle sounded
again.
Mrs. Rosenberg had stretched
her arms along the arms of the
chair, with the palms of her hands
turned upward. Now, her hand
clenched and her body strained
against the straps. Then it slumped
after the first three-second charge.
The two 57-second charges fol
lowed.
So closed the story of Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg which began
more than three years ago>with
the arrest of Dr. Klaus Fuchs,
German - born atomic scientist
who was working in an atomic
laboratory in Great Britain.
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Heaviest Losses Of
War Suffered Last
Week By Allies
SEOUL, Iff)—The Reds Saturday
massed some 16,000 fresh troops
along the east central front—the
scene the past week of the great
est Communist offensive in two
years.
The U.S. Eighth Army reported
the Red buildup as the Air Force
announced Allied air power suf
fered its heaviest losses of the
war in the past week, helping to
stall the great Communist drive.
Nineteen planes — including
Sabre jets — went down behind
Communist lines, the Air Force
announced. Fourteen were lost to
anti-aircraft guns and five to un
explained causes.
None was lost in dogfights, in
which Sabre jets shot down 19
Red Mig jets.
Day and night, U.N. warplanes
in record waves dumped bombs
and jellied gasoline on Commu
nist troops to play a major role
in stemming the greatest Red
drive since 1951.
The worst previous Allied plane
loss was 16 in the week of Feb.
5-11, 1952.
The week also saw destructive
Communist air raids on the Seoul
area, resulting in Friday’s an
nouncement that 'U.S. Marine Sky
raider attack bombers were as
signed to patrol the capital.
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