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BANDITS BEAT ARMORED CAR TO BANK CASH Loot of More Than SIO,OOO Taken at Forty-Second St. Institution. AIRPLANES AID POLICE Money Being Prepared for Transfer Scooped From 9 Cashier’s Table. Half an hour before an armored truck was to arrive to take the money to a downtown bank, three youthful bandits held up the Second Street £ ate Bank, 4209 College Ave., and escaped with between SIO,OOO and SII,OOO. A fourth bandit waited In their auto ' ucslde. -Th3 bandits, waving revolvers, forced five bank employes, a State bank examiner and three customers, In the bank when they entered, into the vault. Nine or ten customers who entered vhlle the hold-up wus in progress v ere ushered Into the vault with the others. They scooped up the money which J. Clark Mills, cashier was preparing to turn over to the men in the Merchants Trucking Company armored truck. They fled west in an old Chevrolet touring car parked outside. About $3,000 of the loot consisted of loose bills taken from the cages. The remainder, $7,200, was wrapped In ore package for the truck. Sta.e Senator Sumner Clancy, vice president of the bank, announced that the loss was covered fully by Insurance, and said the robbery would not affect bank affairs and business would be continued as usual. Two police emergency squads, deputy sheriffs and four police motor squads were aided in the hunt for the bandits by two United States Army planes from Schoen Field, Ft Benjamin Harrison. BlThe fliers watched roads around ®he city. William J. Clark, Marion County inkers Association, secretary, announced that SI,OOO reward would ke paid by the association for the apprehension of the handits. Two hundred fifty dollars will be paid for the arrest of each bandit, Clark said. Walked in Quietly The three bandits, all dressed in light suits and wearing caps, walked quietly into the bank. One stationed himself at the door and all drew guns. Two of the youths were about five feet nine Inches tall and the other was several inches taller, bank employes said. As the others threatened the cuatomers and employes with their revolvers, the tallest tried to open the door leading from' the front of the bank to the cages. The knob twisted off in his hand so he Jumped the seven-foot partition. The second bandit jumped the partition and Joined him and the two herded the bank employe* into the vault and closed the screen door, but left the outside door open. “And Keep Still!” “Lie down on your face and keep still. We won’t hurt you. If you move It will be too bad,” they warned. J. M. West, State bank examiner, was checking the institution’s books and was lodged in the vault with employes. As the customers entered the bank they were herded back into the vault with the others. F. L. Ralya, 414 W. Thirtieth St., Pras presenting a check to be certified when the bandits entered. They took $6 from his pocketbook. Albert Frost, 6140 Haverford Ave., smother customer, was forced to lie on the floor. Struck at Customer Perry A. Adams, Bohannon Uptown Sales Company manager, Forty-Second St. and Broadway, dropped to his knees to avoid being slugged from behind by one of the bandits. "I was standing at the teller’s window when I heard someone behind me say, ‘Crack the son-of-a-gun if he don’t cet down,’ Adams said. “I turned Just in time to see some one strike at me with an automatic. I stepped back, and, obeying his order, dropped to my knees.” P. M. Rhodehamel, 2946 N. Delaware St.; Milton Mills, Zionsville; Joseph P. Henly and Miss Lacy, 20, of 2461 Carrollton Ave., were other employes in the bank. What’s It All About! “It seemed comical to me, I wasn’t afraid,” said Miss Lacy. “When the people kept coming in and the robbers kept putting them into the vault I wondered if they would have room for all of them. 1 “I didn’t really know what it was all about. I saw a man climbing over the cage and noticed he had a gun. It just occurred to me then that maybe It was a hold-up. I walked to the vault when he told me to. He told me to keep my head down.” Boy Drowns in Cedar Lake | By United' Press ■ GARY, Ind., Aug. 23.—The fourth ■person to drown in Cedar Lake this year Is dead here. Hyman. Hankins, 8, son of Abraham Hankins, Chicago, swam beyond his depth and was drowned before Other swimmers could reacn him.

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91; Old Enough By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Aug. 23. Mrs. Jane Whipple, who has just passed her ninety-first birthday, has no desire to attain the century-mark and waits for death calmly at her home southeast of here. A pioneer of the covered wagon days, Mrs. Whipple sees no difference between the world of today and that of her youth save that “preachers are different.” She has been a resident of Jay County eightysix years.

CITY SHAKE-UP PLANA VERTED Police Chief Has Backing of Two Safety Members. With statement of Police Chief Claude F. Johnson today that two members of the board of safety had promised him *hey would not vote for his reduction, the latest threatened city shake-up was believed averted temporarily. John said the board president, O. D. Haskett and Edgar Hart, promised him they would not vote for his reduction at an “informal” board meeting Monday. This would make necessary removal of the present safety board if Mayor Duvall’s reported plan to make chief Claude M. Worley, ousted as detective chief two weeks ago, is carried out. Worley’s return to the police department would result from an agreement said to have been reached at a conference between Duvall and Worley since Worley was ousted. According to reports, Johnson was to be made city controller or city purchasing agent to make way for Worley. Johnson today, however, declared he would not accept either city jx>st and indicated he would fight to retain the chiefship. GRIEF CAUSES HEART TO CEASE BEATING Coroner Probes Death of Man At- , tending Cousin’s Funeral. Heart disease, aggravated by grief, is blamed by Coroner C. H. Keever, for the death of Frederick Eberhart, 78, 329 E. Merrill St., while attending the funeral of his cousin, Mrs. Marie Dewitt, 1315 N. Kealing Ave., at the Shirley Bros.’ funeral home, 946 N. Illinois St., Monday afternoon. Mr. Eberhart had lived in Indianapolis for more than sixty years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Magdolene Eberhart, a son, Ernest, and a grandaughter, Magdalene, all of 329 E. Merrill St.

OPEN MYSTERY BOX 'Ticking’ Gives Postoffice Employes Scare. Postoffice employes were given a thrill Monday when a small package, emanating "ticking” sounds was found on a writing desk on the main floor. The mystery package was taken to the custodian’s office. Those present drew lots to see who should open It. A small cardboard box containing anew alarm clock was disclosed. Later a woman who had lost the clock identified her property at the custodian’s office. This was the nearest approach to any disturbance at the Federal Bldg., at any time during the threat of action by Bacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said. The extra guard on duty the last few days and which was increased Monday was reduced today, he said, but Intimated that more than the usual number was still on duty as a precaution against any reaction to the electrocution of the two radicals. HE’LL LET DOLLAR GROW It Will Provide Fortune for Descendants in 2427. Bv United Press HOLLAND, Mich., Aug. 23.—William Stellema, fruit dealer, has invested one dollar in a local oank with the provision that it is to accumulate at compound interest until 2427 and then be distribute:! among his living male descendants. The total amount after 500 years is calculated to run into eleven figures.

Hope’s Trust By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. ‘They’ll never dare kill them,” declared and old, white-haired, partly deaf and almost sightless woman lying in a bed at Garfield Hospital here today. She is “Mother” Jones, famous woman labor leader, now 98 years old and waiting for death. She was speaking of Sacco and Vanzetti. She does not know they were executed early this morning. She has not been told and will not be for fear the shock might kill her.

COUNCILMAN’S DEAL ON CITY LOT DISCLOSED Albertson Gets Property Through Second Party, Records Show. FATHER GIVEN POSITION Official Has Expressed Opposition to Impeachment Move. A lot at Thirty-Eighth St. and Central Ave., sold by the city, found its way to ownership of City Councilman O. Ray Albertson through a second party, records at the courthouse disclosed today. Albertson Is the ccunciiman whose father recently was named custodian of Casino Gardens by the park board and the councilman who remarked the night impeachment proceedings were filed against Mayor John L. Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser: “I am against everything of this sort.” Deed Filed Late The courthouse records show further that whereas the lot came Into possesion of Albertson Nov. 5, 1926, the same day that Albertson got it from John F. Snyder, local shoe salesman, the deed was not filed for recording until Aug. 19, three days ago. Lot Is Sold “I made a little money,” said Snyder. “I saw the lot advertised and bought it. \I think I had it one day when Albertson, an old friend, came to me and asked me to let him have it if I had no use for it. He wanted to put up an English art building. I sold it to him and I think the price wr.s around $2,800. Albertson and I Lave been friends for ten years. “We had no arrangement for the sale to him until after I bought the lot.” The deed to Snyder was made by Duvall and City Clerk William Boyce Jr. The records show that Snyder and his wife deeded it to Albertson and his wife the same day. Higher Value Is Shown Inasmuch as the property was owned by the city, it it not listed for taxation purposes, but an old plat book, in which are recorded the approximate values of all lots, shows that at that time the entire lot, of which the land ‘.n the present deal Is one-half, was valued at $5,000. /The deeds show that the same notary, Charles M. Davidson, who took acknowledgements on the deed from the city to Snyder, officiated on the deed from Snyder to Albertson.

EXPANSION OF FARM LOANS IS ADVOCATED Speaker Pleads For Relief of Cotton Fanner of South. By Waited Brent WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.. Aug. 23.—Expansion of the Federal farm loan and Intermediate credit facilities under "farmer sympathy and control” for relief of the cotton planter, were advocated here by B. W. Kilgore of North Carolina, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Cotton Growers Exchange, before the Institute of Politics. Pointing out that the Mississippi flood disaster represented a loss much smaller than economic vicissitudes of the southern farmer during the last two years, Kilgore urged freight adjustments, waterway improvements and tax reductions. BRAZIL DASH DELAYED Redfem Must Walt for Tropical Storms to Pass. Bti United Prrtt BRUNSWICK, Gfc., Aug 23—A tropical disturbance centering in the vicinity of the projected course of Paul Redfem’s monoplane port of Brunswick is likely to delay the proposed Brunswick-to-Brazil air dash until next week, Paul J. Varner, chairman of the flight committee, announced today. SWIMMER’S HEART FAILS Man Carrying Daughter on Back Dies in Water. By United Prctt BAY CITY. Mich., Aug. 23 Samuel Brown, 43, died of heart disease while swimming with his 9-year-old daughter Constance, on his back. Rescuers found Brown standing up, dead. The daughter was revived. GARY BUILDS CITY HALL Work Begins on $700,000 Project of Late Steel Magnate. By Timet Special GARY, Ind., Aug. 23—Construction of a 1 ' 1 $700,000 city hall began here today. The new building is a part of the late Judge E. H. Gary’s projects for beautification of the city. Mayor Fioyd E. Williams turned the first shovelful of dirt for the excavations.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 23, 1927

Waif Found in Basket on Street Entered in Greenfield Baby Show

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ROBS TO HELP SICK HUSBAND Girl Collapses After Sentence to Prison. “My husband was sick. At times he was so ill he would lay down on the bed and cry. Finally, I made him quit work and even locked the door to keep him from gonig out.” Sobbing, Mrs. Virginia Hudson, 21, today told Special Criminal Court Judge Fremont Alford this was the reason she started a career of crime. •She and her husband. Robert, 20, were sentenced one to ten years each for grand larceny and receiving stolen goods. 4f>. Mrs. Hudson had to be led from the witness stand when she collapsed after telling her story. She pleaded guilty to stealing several hundreds dollars in cash, watches and jewelry from seven Indianapolis hotels in the last ten days. She was arrested late Monday, confessed and was on her way to prison this afternoon. Her husband pleaded guilty to selling and pawning the stolen property. She said she -was never arrested before and that “it seemed the only way to aid her sick husband and five-months-old baby.” Her husband said he had not worked since leaving Cincinnati a few weeks ago. Before that they lived in Columbia, S. C., they said.

COST IS $2,000,000 Chaplin Divorce Hearing Expenses to Be Fixed. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal'., Aug. 23. Two million dollars was estimated today as the cost ,of the Charlie Chaplin divorce trial. The exact figure will be fixed at . hearing on receivers' fees this afte.mon. At least $1,000,000 was spent for various attorneys’ and receivers’ fees and expenses. The itemized bill: Property settlement, $625,000; children’s trust fund, $200,000; receivers’ fees, $10,000; temporary alimony approximately $15,000; interest on deferred property settlement, $17,000; SI,OOO a month for maintenance of the children until tho trust fund can be established. SLASHES OWN THROAT Grover Lytle Is Near Death In City Hospital. Unable to give any reasons for the act, Grover Lytle, 43, of 2519 N. Pennsylvania St., was in a serious condition in city hospital today after he had slashed his throat with a large kitchen knife. He was found lying in the bath-, room by his brother. Albert Lytle, with whom he had been living. His brother told police that he had been in ill health for a long time, but did not think this led him to attempt suicide.

Four in One By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 23. —Mrs. Paul ,T. V/illlamson is minus four teeth because she was so deeply interested in the golf form of her friend, Mrs. Fred H. Freeman. As Mrs. Freeman started a drive, Mrs. Williamson, intent on the play, stood so close that she was struck by the club on its back swing.

Many Seek to Adopt Child; Officers Have Clew of Identity. BY ELDORA FIELD "Out of the night as comes the dawn. Out o t the embers as the flame— O, this Is the way the baby camel’ r-=—| AMES WHITCOMB RILEY I I wrote that years ago and he I J | might well have had in mind the intensely interesting event which has Greenfield, his birth town, all agog today. For somebody abandoned a baby —a bright-eyed, cuddly little fellow —in a basket on a Greenfield street Sunday night. Whoever pressed the tender little body deep down info a rough split basket was certainly indifferent to the fate that might overtake it. for flat against the wheel of a parked automobile, the basket rested. Entered in Baby Sbow Only one kind thing that person did. He or she picked out the town of Greenfield in which to leave that little pink bundle, and from the time Mrs. Robert Yule, hearing a strangling little cry, looked into the basket and took it to Sheriff Harry Comstock's office, one constant stream of Greenfield people have “ch'd” and “ah’d” at the round-Wit-tie face and the helpless, waving baby hands. Today the baby was entered in the baby show at the Hancock County fair being held at Greenfield. Mrs. Harry Comstock, who has cared for the baby since it was laid in her arms Sunday night, will be its attendant at the show, and the whole countryside is expected to turn out. “There have been hundreds and hundreds of Greenfield folks at our house to see the darling little thing,” said Mrs. Comstock. “I hate to give it up.” “I bet we’ve had fifty offers from folks who want to adopt the little fellow,” said Marshall Winslow, president of the Children’s Board of Guardians at Greenfield. “In fact so many have offered that it’s going to be puzzling to know how to decide its future foster parents.” So Greenfield, Riley’s home place, is responding to the mute appeal of the little baby “who came out of the night” in just the spirit that this poet of the children, would have wished. No additional clews have, been found by authorities endeavoring to determine the baby’s parents. From a hospital identification tag found on the baby’s wrist, the child is believed to be the ten-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman F. Jordan, formerly of 1402 E. Tenth St. Find Hospital Tag Dr. Fred L. Hosman, 150514 N. Illinois St., whose name was on the tog, said he attended Mrs. Jordan at Indiana Christian Hospital ten days ago at the birth of a son. The name “Baby Jordan, male,” is also on the tag. Mrs. Jordan left the hospital with the baby Sunday night. Mrs. Ida M. Theis, 1402 E. Tenth St., said the couple had a light housekeeping apartment at her home, but that she saw Jordan but once since his wife went to the hospital.

REMEMBER VALENTINO Anniversary of Death Observed by Solemn Requiem Mass. Un'trd Prctt ROME, Aug. 23—The anniversary of Rudolph Valentino’s death was observed today with a solemn requiem mass in St. Mary Majors. Movie celebrities and crowds of the late actor’s admirers attended. BARTHELMESS ENGAGED Screen Star to Marry Katherine Wilson, Stage Luminary. By Timet Special NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Announcement of the engagement of Richard Barthelmess, motion picture actor, to Katherine Wilson. stage star, has been made. The marriage is expected to take place in the late fall

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MILLER'S JOB ISLEFJ OPEN Jackson Will Make No Appointment Today. Despite official ruling' - of Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom declaring the office of superintendent of public instruction vacant, Governor Jackson announced at noon today that appointment of a successor to Charles F. Miller will not be made today. Miller was among those who called on the Governor to discuss the matter this morning. The Governor stated that they discussed school matters in general and no reference was made to the Gillnm luling. ’ ‘" r '” The Gilliom ruling pointed out that the Indianapolis superintendency is prescribed by statute and an oath of office required to hold it. The opinion cited the constitutional provision that no two offices may be held at the same time and then went on to declare that when Miller took the city school position he automatically vacated the State post. Miller, however, has refused to raign. He holds, upon advice of attorneys, that it is within his power to hold both positions, but has stated he will accept only State pay. Ruling as to whether or not he shall receive it will be asked of the Attorney General by State Auditor L. S. Bowman. Superintendent Donald Dushane, Columbus, is believed leading the field for the State post from a political angle. However, his county failed to go for Jackson for Governor.

MORE SHIPSJN HUNT 16 Vessels Join Flotilla Seeking Fliers. B "WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The Navy search of the Pacific for the seven missing Hawaiian fliers was augmented today by sixteen more ships—the light cruiser Omaha and fifteen destroyers. The intensive search of the Pacific lanes will be continued until darkness Thursday, at which time, if no traces have been found of Miss Mildred Doran and the six aviators lost in three planes, all vessels will start returning to duties Interrupted by the hunt. Word of these developments was given out today by the Navy Department in a dispatch from Admiral R. H. Jackson, Pacific fleet commander, Jackson ordered the sixteen new ships from Admiral Luke McNarnee, commander of the destroyer squadron. The sixteen ships engaged in battle fleet maneuvers between Puget Sound and San Francisco lejt the fleet yesterday and will arrive shortly after noon Wednesday at a point 555 miles out of San Francisco, where the Erwin “Dallas Spirit” was last heard from.

HURRICANE IS FEARED United States Weather Bnreau Warning to Vessels. By Timet Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—The United States Weathej Bureau has ordered storm warnings posted from Boston to Wilmington, N. C., because of a “tropical disturbance of great intensity attended by hurricane winds.” All vesllls along the north, middle and south Atlantic coasts as far south as North Carolina were advised to be cautious. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 63 10 a. m 76 7 a. m...... 64 11 a. m 78 8 a. m n 12 (noon) ... 80 9 a. m 72

ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT FLARES THROUGHOUT WORLD AFTER RAUICALS GO TU DEATH

Disorders and Violence Mark Sacco, Vanzetti Drama Close. PARIS REDS INFLAMED Catholic Monastery Bombed in Cleveland; Radicals Are Blamed. By United Press Disorder, mass protests, violence and one death were side shows last night and today to the drama of Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti’s execution. Thousands of persons in the United States, Europe, Great Britain and Australia met to pro.‘2st against the death sentence. Anti-American sentiment was especially prevalent in Geneva, seat of the League of Nations, where one person was killed and twentyfive were injured. American automobiles were attacked; stones were thrown at American delegates to the League’s press conference; the council room of the League was wrecked. Police dispersed protesting crowds in France, Germany, England, Denmark, Chicago and Detroit. Some heads were broken; no one was killed. Consulates Under Guard Paris Communists planned an attempt to prevent the American Legion convention meeting there next month. London police dispersed demonstrators near Buckingham Palace and the United States embassy. Throughout Europe. United States embassies and consulates were under guard. Italy was orderly, although feeling was intense. Pennsylvania State police sought the murderer of a State policeman, who was shot after a Sacco-Van-zetti meeting yesterday. Two bombs exploded in Montpelier, France, and another damaged a monastery in Cleveland, Ohio. There was no evidence to link these bombs with Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. Geneva Mobilizes Troops Europeans awoke today without '.earning from their morning papers that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo yanzetti had died in the electric chair. The hour of execution having come too late to catch even the last editions. An exception was the Daily Express of London, which held up its last edition for the first time in nineteen years. But the word soon spread, and serious outbreaks were feared. Two thousand troops were mobilized today in Geneva, said a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, to prevent further SaccoVanzetti riots. In far-off Sydney, Australia, more (Continued on Page Two)

PRESIDENT ON TOUR Coolidge Spends Day in Geyser Region. By United Press OLD FAITHFUL YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Aug. 23. —Through the fantastic geyser region, where steaming water spurts from the mountain sides and mud springs from liquid clay every color of the rainbow, President Coolidge moved today on the second day of his deluxe tin can tourist trip in Yellowstone National Park. The presidential caravan of five automobiles and three busses wound its way up through the Rocky Mountains from Mammoth to Continental Divide. Accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge and his son, John, he stopped at all the points of interest along the way. just as the hundreds of other tourists in their camp clothing. This afternoon he planned more sight-seeing around the excelsior geyser basin, remaining tonight at Old Faithful Inn. He plana to proceed tomorrow to Lake YellAwstone, where he will fish.

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Three Men Go to Death Without Showing Trace of Fear. MAINTAIN INNOCENCE Heavy Guard Is Kept Over Prison as Alleged Slayers Die. BY HENRY MINOTT United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Aug. 23.—Massachusetts wiped the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti off its books this afternoon. The anarchists, with Celestino Madeiros, were electrocuted at the Charlestown State Prison between midnight and 12:30 a. m. In less than an hour, the bodies rested in a city mortuary. George B. MaGrath, county medical examiner, came during the morning to perform the autopsy required by law. Then the State was through and ready to give the bodies to the relatives. Gardner Jackson and Aldijio Felicani of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee, claimed the bodies of the two anarchists. An undertaker claimed that of Madeiros in behalf of hla mother and sister. Police Relax Vigilance Police vigilance had been relaxed. No crowds gathered at the morgue. Newsboys shouted extras telling of violence in other cities in the United States and abroad, but Boston was returning to normal. Vanzetti will be returned to Italy to be buried where he was born. His sister, Lugia, who came here from the little Italian village of Villafiletta to console him in his last moments, probably will accompany it. Sacco, who “kept a beautiful garden” at Stoughton, will be burled by his wife, Rose, perhaps near a Massachusetts garden. The body of Madeiros will be sent to New Bedford, Mass, where his mother lives. Up to th- : hour of doom, weary attorneys, battling for the lives of the condemned anarchists, held the faintest glimmer of hope of staying the hand of death. Meet Death Without Fear Once before, only twelve days since, these same lives had been spared by a midnight reprieve. Last midnight brought no respite. The three men were ready for death and met it without show of fear. Madeiros, entered the death chamber at 12:02 a. m. He walked to the chair, led by two guards. At 9 minutes and 35 seconds past midnight the doctors announced he was dead. Nicola Sacco was brought in next, at 12:11. A man of 36 years, he seemed younger as he walked with pale face, but set lines, and steady gait to the chair. He was sitting in the death chair. ‘“Long live anarchy,” he criod, in Italian. Guards adjusted straps and the electrodes. “Farewell, my wife and child and all my friends,” he said audibly, i time in broken English. Vanzetti Is Dramatic Just before Robert Elliott, the ex. ecutloner, threw his switch from behind a screen, Sacco spoke his last words: “Farewell, mother.” A deathly silence then prevailed. A dozen men were there. The only sound was the subdued shuffling of the two men who curried what had been Nicola Sacco to a marble slab behind a protecting screen. He was pronounced dead at 12:19 a. m. Vanzetti was brought in at 12:20. With his mild, reproachful brown eyes and drooping, walrus-like mustache, he radiated even at the hour of death the restless energy which made him, an Italian immigrant and fish peddler, an intellectual leader in his circle. He was three years older than Sacco. The attendants seemed more to be accompanying than leading him. He stopped to shake hands with his guards.

Maintains His Innocence Then he sat in the death seat without a tremor and said: “I wish to tell you I am innocent and never committed any crime, but sometimes some sin. “I thank you for everything you have done. "I am innocent of all crime, not only of this one, but all. "I am an innocent man. “I wish to forgive some people for what they are now doing to me.”. The earnest, broken English was followed by a brief, profound silence. Then the warden’s arm raised in the -signal to the electrician. Vanzettl was pronounced dead at 12:26 a. m. Hundreds of police and troops who, with their beyonets, pistols and Are hose, had guarded the prison against an Interruption in the business of execution, began to disperse. Michael '’•'•'•elo Mucrrenno, young nttr'ij’irjh attorney who hsl fli-