Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — GOES TO CHAIR WITH SMILE [ARTICLE]

GOES TO CHAIR WITH SMILE

Bandit-Slayer Hamby, Who Laughed at . ‘ Death, Is Now Dead. Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 30. —Gordon Fawcett Hamby, murderer, bank robber and train bandit, whose crime record reached from coast to coast and culminated in the murder of two Brooklyn bank employees in December, 1918, was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison. Hamby maintained to the last his iron compdsure, going to the chair with a smile on his face. He refused the offer of the Protestant and Roman Catholic chaplains to accompany him to the chair and walked to his death unaided and with a firm step.