Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1939 — Page 23

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. Five ‘Accept Religion’ but Sixth Is Defiant on Way to Chair.

COLUMBIA, S. C., March 24 (U. P.).—Six men died in South Carolina’s electric chair today within 45

the murder of J. guard captain, during an attempted break from the State prison in December, 1937. : ; Those to whom the State refused to “show mercy because they showed no mercy” in killing Mr. Sanders

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J. V. Mair, 28, Sumter, S. C.; Clayton Crans, 29, Rochester, N. Y.;

i William H. Gentry, 25, Summerville,

Ga.; Herbert Moorman, 42, Detroit,

Mich.; Roy Suttles, 29, Simpsonville, | | . 8. C.; George Wingard, 23, Lexing-| ¥§ ‘ ton County, South Carolina.

Slaying Is Recalled

Prison officials led the men to the chair—one by one—Iin the order they

~ had entered Capt. Sanders’ office| 8

. when they attempted to force their : way out of the penitentiary 16 ' months ago. The electric = chair faced Capt. Sanders’ old office. Wingard was the first to enter.

. He was smoking a. cigaret and

: looked around the room. “I've made my peace with God” he told the 40

"witnesses, who included two of Capt.

. Sanders’ sons. ; . When the door opened for Gentry the four remaining called ' “goodbye Bill.” From the death + house came the strains of the hymn, $ “Till We Meet With God.” . Gentry said his five companions ‘ in the abortive break were innocent . and that he stabbed Capt. Sanders. { He told the guards who strapped ' him to the chair, “Don’t choke me, : men.” : ‘ Forgiveness Is Asked ~ Suttles said he wanted the people of Greenville, S. C., to-know that + he did not shoot Sherman C. Kelly, in 1935. He asked ‘“Sanders’ loved ones” to forgive him. Moorman thanked the guards and officers for their kindness to him. Crans, siting in the chair, read a : Statement - warning young men 3 Crans :was singing “Lord I'm Coming , Home,” when the current was turned + 0n. i Bair read a statement from the « chair in which he said he had ac- # cepted religion and that he was *Sorry for Capt. Sander’s two sons.” All of the condemned men, with the exception of Gentry, were bap- « tized yesterday. They ordered a last *. dinner of a whole fried chicken each *. and banana pudding.

Five Pray for Sixth Before going to the death cham-

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|; ber,.five of the men who had “made - 4 peace with God,” knelt and prayed

4 for Gentry, who had expressed no % interest in religion. i Nine ministers spent the night saith: the doomed convicts. They < prayed from darkness until midnight :—then there was a brief stop while "ice cream was served. From then until morning there was praying

pe and the singing of hymns in the * death house.

“Forty witnesses and officials were in the death chamber. Dr. R. Lee ; Sanders and Joe Sanders, sons of « the slain guard captain, were in the

“je Tear of the chamber. % The six convicts, on Dec. 21, 1937,

invaded the office of Capt. Sanders, joverpowered him and demanded » they be allowed to escape. For ; three hours they held Capt. San- , ders captive. Olin D. Johnston, then ‘ Governor, personally pleaded with sthe men to surrender, Arguments .- were futile. °° « National Guardsmen threw tear + gas into the office. Capt. Sanders was . stabbed by a pair of scissors. The /six . staggered from the building, ‘ blinded by the gas.

‘7 GHILDREN HURT IN VARIETY. OF MISHAPS

: Seven children had injuries today as a result of a series of accidents, sone of them on a basketball court. . Three were burned, another was in:jured in a fall and two others by ‘automobiles. : Merle Miller, 16, of 2010 Sugar {Grove Ave, received -a fracture of .the right arm when he fell while playing basketball at the Meridian “M. BE. Church last night. v “Viola Hearne, 10, of 309 N. New Jersey St., and Robert Biddle, 14, of 307 N. New Jersey St., were burned when another boy threw a lighted match into gasoline which Robert was syphoning from the tank of an old automobile. They were ‘treated at City Hospital. Three-year-old Ronald Bain was burned on the arm when he spilled ‘hot tea on himself at the home, 540 N. Belle. Vieu Place. Billy Henson, 16, of 1553 Roache St, was at City Hospital suffering

Arom cuts and bruises received when|

‘he fell from his bicycle at Delaware and Henry Sts. . : . ‘Everett Lynn, 5, of 517 N. Traub :Ave., was struck by an automobile driven by Ragnar Johanson, of 1717

~ /Sharon Ave, at Lynn and Michigan

“i Otto Herb, 10. of 3715 N. Capitol :Ave., was hurt when an automobile ‘driven by Frank Flint, of 1323 In«diana Ave. struck his bicycle at 32d @nd Meridian Sts.

RICHMOND U. A. W. ~ PICKETS GIVE BAIL

* RICHMOND, March 24 (U. P). Ten members of the United Automobile Workers of America Union stoday were free on bail from ‘asjsault and battery charges filed when they allegedly tried to prevent employees of the Atlas Underwear Co. from entering the factory. » “Eight of those arrested were reiportedly from New Castle. Police iwere called to the factory when the «pickets allegedly prevented 11 emjployees from entering the building. ee :

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Martha Summeier and Gilbert Howard.

OUTLINE CONVENTION OF PHI ETA SIGMA

BLOOMINGTON, March 24. — Delegates from 43 colleges and universities will meet on the Indiana University campus April 3 and 4 for the national convention of Phi Eta Sigma, honorary scholastic fraternity for freshman men. Jack Fairchild of Elkhart, president of the I. U. chapter of the organizations, will have charge. All national officers have indicated they will attend. Dean Charles M. Thompson of the University of Illinois School of Business will give the principal address. A model initiation will be presented by the local chapter, in which 60 freshmen elected to the fraternity this year will be induced.

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Vermont Cannot Follow At Least on Income Tax Gains.

WASHINGTON, March 24 (U. P.).—Rep. Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.), who indicated he has been smarting under the political jokes

of the last two years around the parody, “As Maine Goes, So Goes Vermont,” told the House he had a new and better joke to tell. “It is contained,” he said, “in the Treasury Department report on income tax collections. “Maine is the only state which shows an increase in income * tax payments in the country, an increase of 20 per cent as compared with a decrease of 30 per cent for the -sountry as a whole. “This shows that political virtue is its own reward. If the country will only follow the State of Maine we will yet be able to bail you out.”

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Clyde Menaugh, 57, who was shot and wounded by a bandit Wednes-| day night during a holdup in his, drugstore at 2960 College Ave., re-| mained in a serious condition at St. Vincent’s Hospital today. Meanwhile police continued their hunt ior the gunman who fled after | the shooting without obtaining any

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Walter Weber, 926 Prospect St.: Walter Menges, 627 Orange St., and Joseph Melvin, 435 N. Noble St. Weber took the stand against his two companions yesterday and testified the three of them robbed George Callahan at his store, 3218 E. Michigan 8St., last Oct. 1, and escaped with $15. Menges and Melvin denied the

‘| robbery, the latter claiming from

the stand that he was celebrating a wedding anniversary of some friends at the time of the crime. Police have said Weber and Melvin were identified by Mr. Callahan as the two who entered his store The State charged that Menges drove the car used by the two. The case is being tried before Special Judge Floyd I. Mattice.

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SEATTLE, March 2¢ (U.P) —GMen and local officers today had

refused to comment on a Seattle Star story that a dying man had

in the kidnap-murder of Charles Mattson of Tacoma. The Star described the development as the most important in the unsolved crime of Dec. 17, 1936,

10-year-old - Mattson boy from ‘k Home. The child's body was fou later in a thicket hy a hunter.

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