MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XX111. NUMBER 10.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ruth suer and i
HENRY JUDD DRAY
ARE ELECTROCUTED
"FORGIVE THEM FATHER FOR
THEY KNOW NOT WHAT
THEY DO”, SNYDER
SING SING, N. Y., Jan. 13. (JP)—
Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray
paid "with their lives in the electric
chair for the murder of the woman’s
husband. Mrs. Snyder was led to the
chair first and pronounced dead at
11:06 p. m. Gray followed immedi
ately and was pronounced dead at
11:16 p. m.
Mrs. Snyder went to the chair mut
tering biibical quotations and Gray
followed her to death his lips moving
in prayer but making no audible
sound.
Mrs. Snyder was led to the death
chamber by two matrons who stayed
with her to the end. As she walked
to the electric chair she cried out
“Forgive them Father for they know
not what they do.” as soon as Mrs.
Snyder’s body was taken from the
room Gray, who was sentenced with
her for the murder of her husband,
was led in. A Catholic priest read
the ritual as Mrs. Snyder died. Gray
was accompanied by a Protestant
minister w'ho read in a solemn voice
Gray’s lips were seen to move in re
sponsive prayer.
Mrs. Snyder was given three shocks
of 200 volts. Gray was given two
shocks of 200 volts. Mrs. Snydei
wore a black house dress, open at the
neck, scarcely more than knee lengtt
and over this was a tan smock. Gra>
wore a light grey suit, a white shiri
but no necktie.
VACATED STAY
NEW YORK. Jan. 13. (TP;—Supreme
Court Justice Levy vacated the staj
of execution which was granted Mrs
Snyder last night. In vacating the
stay the Justice said the chief con
cern was for Mrs. Snyder’s daughte'
Lorraine but added that despite the
Attorney General’s assertions to the
contrary the court had a right to ord
er a stay.
TO WED RAJAH
LONDON, Jan. 13. (£>)—Nancy Am
Miller, Seattle, Wash., girl, has ai
rived at Bombay to wed the forme
Majarajah of Indore, whom she me
while the former Rajah w~as visitini
in the United States.
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AIR SERVICE IN TWO YEARS
LONDON, Jan. 13. (JP)—Regula
trans-Atlantic airship service betweee
Britain and America maintained b
five huge dirigibles will be establish
ed within two years if the plans o
C. Dennison Burney, member of Pai
liament materilize..
EVERYBODY HAPPY AGAIN
NEW YORK, Jan. 13. {JP)—'Te:
Rickard and champion Gene Ttinne;
have settled their difficulties.
TEN KILLED IN ALASKA
JUNEAU, Jan. 13. (^--Federal
Mining Inspector Ben Stewart re
ported there were 10 fatal accidents
in all branches of the Alaska mining
industry last year. This is two more
than in 1926.
FREIGHTER GRIFFCO
REPORTS ALL IS WELL
WAS THOUGHT LOST
SOS SIGNALS OF PAST TWO
DAYS WORK OF GREEN OP
ERATOR, SAID
SEATTLE, Jan. 13. (£>)—The pas
senger liner Aorangi was advised by
radio from the missing steamer Grif
fco that “all wa well aboard.” The
Griffco radio message supplimented
by Morse light signals from the
Griffco was “cannot receive on the
wireless. Please report us To the
Inter Island Navigation Co., that all
is well.”
Efforts were begun by the coast
guard to determine why the Griffco
had been sending SOS signals for
two dlays. Seattle Harbor' officials
were of the opinion a green oprator
was responsible.
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WILL TRY AGAIN
REDWOOD CITY, Jan. 13, (£>)—Roy
Pelton, 19, has been exiled from San
Mateo county’ by the court. The
. ban against his return to his home
was brought about thru his habit of
beating his father and mother.
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FIVE YEAR-OLD BIRL :
KIDNAPPED. SLAINj
FLINT. MICHIGAN:
STOLEN FROM UNDER EYES OF
MOTHER; BODY WAS DISSECT
ED; HUNT UNDERWAY
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 13. (£>)—'The
most intensive man hunt in the State
of Michigan history is searching for
the kidnapper and slayer of five year
old Dorothy Schneider who was kid
napped from under the eyes of her
mother.
The child was taken in an automo
bile to the countryside and brutally
slain. The slayer then dissected the
body and stuTfed a portion under a
ledge of ice on Fordering Creek.
Some portions are still missing.
DEMOCRATS WILL
CONVENE HOUSTON
TOR CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (£>)—Hous.
! ton, Tex., wras seleceted for the 1928
Democratic convention on the fifth
i m
ballot with San Francisco, runner up.
The victor was a last minute entry
in the list of a half dozen cities but
led from the first ballot.
The subcommittee fixed Tuesday,
June 26 as the date, just two weeks
after the Republican convention opens
in Kansas City.
BEATS HIS PARENTS
ST. JOHN, N. B., Jan. 13. (£>)—Capt. |
Francis T. Courtney who last summer |
attempted to fly from England to J
New York but was forced back said
that he would make another attempt
this summer.
90RILU MAN IS .
HUi WINNIPEG
DENYING GUILT
WAS ALLEGED SLAYER OF 19
WOMEN AND BABY IN U. S.
AND CANADA
WINNIPEG, Jan. 13. (£>)— Staunch-,
ly protesting his innocense and (pre
serving an unruffled calm, Earl Nel
son, T“eh Gorilla man”, murderer of
Mrs. Emily Patterson, and alleged
slayer of 19 women and a baby in
Canada and in the United States, went
to death on the gallows this morning.
As he stood on the trap he made a
brief statement saying ‘‘I declare my
innocense before God and maJu. I
forgive those who injured me and I
ask the pardon of those I have In
jured. May the Lord have mercy on
my soul.”
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TO FIGHT AGAIN, MARCH
NEW YORK, Jan. 13. (/P)—Tommy
Loughran ^vho barely escaped with
his light heavyweight championship
! in his battle with Leo Lomski last
week, signed for another bout for Tex
Rickard on March 30th. His oppo
nent has not yet been selected but will
i probably be Lomski again.
The Good Samaritan*
THREE DIE KOTZEBUE
DIPTHE1; SENDING
TOXIN BY AIRPLANE
TWO ILL IN NOME; NO FEAR OF
EPIDEMIC IS EXPRESSED AT
NOME
NOME, Jan. 13. (/P)—Preparations
are being made to send diptheria an
titoxin by airplane to Kotzebue where
three deaths from diptheria have
been reported. Two Nome residents
are ill with the disease and preventa
tive measures are being taken to
avert a spread here.
An epidemic is not expected altho
the situation at Kotzebue is regarded
as more serious. The two persons
ill here are Miss Susan Drenth, teach
er; and Charles Calkins, city engin
eer. Those vfho died at Kfotzebue
were Eskimos.
A physician and nurse are stationed
there by the Bureau of Education and
it is believed they have the situation
well in hand. If the antitoxin supply
is received by airplane it will proba
bly be taken by Noel Wein, Fairbanks
aviator, who arrived yesterday with
passengers and mail.
FIELD 111 COLORADO
COAL MINER KILLED; OFFICER,
TWO MINERS ARE INJURED
SHOOTING AFFRAY
DENVER, Jan. 13. (£>)—Walsen
' berg, Colo., in the southern coal field,
is in a state of unofficial martial
; law following a shooting affray yes
terday which resulted in the death of
one striking coal miner and the seri
ous injury of a state police officer
and injurries to two other strikers.
The clash occured when police en
deavored to turn back an I. W. ^V.
parade. Klementz Chavez was the
miner killed.
REVOLUTION TO FLAME
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 13. (/P)—Dr. John
Winthrop Sargent, noted anthro
pologist predicted that the flames of
revolution will break out in Honduras
; during or immediately after the
t presidental election of early March.
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SALVAGE EFFORTS FAIL
BALAKLAVA, Crimea, Jan. 13. (JP)
—Eforts to salvage $15,000,000 in gold
from the British cruiser Black Prince,
which sunk off Balaklava during the
Crimean war have failed again.
EFFECT RECONCILIATION
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13. (£>)—Hal
Roach and his wife, reported separat
ed a few days ago, announced that a
reconciliation had been effected and
that they were to live happy ever
after as the movies say.