Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — THREE HANGED AT JEFFERSON CITY [ARTICLE]

THREE HANGED AT JEFFERSON CITY

Convicts Who Killed Guards in Prison Die on Same Gallows. Jefferson City, Mo., June 27. —Harry Vaughan and Edward Raymond, convicts sentenced to the penitentiary from St. Louis, and George Ryan, a convict Sentenced from Kansas City, were hanged in the county jail here for the killing of Prison guard John Clay during a concerted attempt to escape from the penitentiary. The three were hanged at the same moment. Sheriff Scott sprung the trap. All three died from -strangulatlon and no one’s neck was broken. The physicians in attendance pronounced Vaughan ‘dead in 16% minutes after the. trap was sprung; Ryan dead in minutes and Raymond dead In 11% minutes. About 250 persons witnessed the execution. No statement was made from the scaffold.