Legal execution by electric-chair at 12:05 A.M., in the Ohio State Penitentiary for robbery/murder.
Age 43
Career criminal
He has become part of folk-lore because about 1900, while an inmate, he designed metal clamps to replace the leather straps on the electric-chair to improve its performance. He later died in the same chair.
Legal execution by electric-chair at 12:05 A.M., in the Ohio State Penitentiary for robbery/murder.
Age 43
Career criminal
He has become part of folk-lore because about 1900, while an inmate, he designed metal clamps to replace the leather straps on the electric-chair to improve its performance. He later died in the same chair.
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