Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — A MURDERER ELECTROCUTED. [ARTICLE]

A MURDERER ELECTROCUTED.

Murderer Fred McGuire was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., on the 19th. He confessed his guilt of the crime of which he was convicted, and went to his doom a penitent man. The result of the electrical application showed no destruction of tissues, and the external burns which have been present in other deaths in the electrical chair were absent. The crime for which McGuire paid the»ponalty was the killing of Mrs. Amelia Gregory, of Middletown, Orange county, N. Y.,oetiwr 14.1891. The murder was committed for tho purpose of robbery.