Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — Two For The Gallows. [ARTICLE]
Two For The Gallows.
Michigan City, Ind , Feb 28 Edward Donahue, who will be exe cuted by Warden Reid the night of June 9, will be brought from Crown Point to prison this week and assigned to a cell in the death cbam. ber, where day and nighC watches will be maintained until the penalty of the law is imposed. Warden Reid has be.n advised by the officers of Lake c mnty tnat Donahue is desperate f nd they fear ’hat he will attempt his life. Donahue is making professions of religious’penitence and is receiving visits from a Catholic priest. Smith the Indianapolisj nepro who wid be hanged by Warden Reid in May, spends a large portion of tis time in singing and praying. He professes bir readiness to go to the gallows.
