Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1926 — Page 4

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WHITMIRE, KING OF BANDIT GANG, IS PUT TO DEATH ‘I Wish to Say Good-by/ He 1 Tells Witnesses to Hanging. Bv United Press BALTIMORE. Aug. 13.—Richard Reese Whittemore. bandit leader and murderer,' was hanged today. With his death, the last but one of the Whittemore gang, whose depredations netted them more tob;j.n ii millibn dollars, has paid the •penalty of crlml. Death, disease and prison have claimed the others. Whittemore, who was 28, went to the scaffold almost unmoved at the prospect of death. Relatives Barred “I wish to say good-by. That is the best I can wish for anyone,” was all he had to say as he stepped to the gallows in the presence of a roomful of disinterested witnesses. I-le was alone as far as human sympathy was concerned, for his wife and relatives had been barred. Whittemore died for the murder of Robert Holtman, a guard at the Maryland penitentiary here. He killed Holtman while escaping last year and wafe caught after a series of robberies and crimes that stirred the East by their daring and success. • Promptly as the clock pointed to midnight, and it became Friday, the 13th, guards entered Whittemore's cell. He was handcuffed and led to the death chamber. Like a Stage The narrow, white-washed room was brilliantly lighted. At one end, set like a stage, rose the concrete balcony of the scaffold, with its steel death-trap. Under the glaring light the spectators stirred and shuffled restlessly. A door on this balcony opened,

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and Whittemore appeared, £ slim boyteh figure, shrouded from neck to ankles in a black garment, beneath which bulged his shackled hands. A doctor and a guard accompanied him. He Smiles Ho smiled faintly as he looked at the crowd below. The black death-hood had hung from his neck. Then it was pulled over his disarranged hair. The noose was slipped tightly about his neck. He stood rigid. ‘‘What a nerve,” whispered a spectator, as Whittemore gave his last good-by. Mencken There • H. L. Mencken, magazine editor, who was among the spectators, turnejl to the man beside him. ‘‘There are mighty few witnesses here who could have spoken anything as calmly,” he said. There was anew stir on the illuminated stage. Guards about the prisoner stepped back, leaving Whittemore standing on the steel trap. One walked to an adjoining room where the lever springing the trap is located. Tj\e trap was sprung at 12:07 a. m, # Pronounced Dead Twelve minutes later, Whittemoro was pronounced dead. Twenty-four minutes after midnight, Dr. Albert Anderson, penitenlary physician, permitted guards to cut the body down. The half-hundred witnesses slowly filed out. Mencken was discussing with friends the comparative merits of the electric chair and the scaffold as instruments of capital punishment. In the midnight streets, crowds still lingered. Precaution Taken Every precaution had been taken to prevent any demonstration at the execution. T\yo guards at the main entrance to the prison had carefully examined all admittance cards. Tear gas bombs had been stored in readi-

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1? KILLED IN GERMAN WRECK Twenty-Seven Injured in Crash Near Munich. Bv United Press • BERLIN, Aug. 13. —The Ttegens-burg-Munich Express was derailed

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