The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 18, 1953, Page 5

j, December 16,1953 THE KEY CITIZEN syman Tells Of Hall's 'OR'S NOTE: The following; ar of the execution of Cart Hall and Bonnie Brown was written at the invite- the Kansas City Star by one) sight cisrgymen who sew, Santa's ’ Mail Box Little Ricky Xushman, 4'4, ining anony-, Placed the first letter in Santa’s written this in an| Magic Mail Box at the office of ‘out the Christian) The Key West Citizen today. (i) wes made Letters which children write to te the Associated Press Santa and place in the box will Ster.) | be printed in the pages of The — | Citizen up to Christmas Eve, to IRSON CITY, Mo, #—Carl | give old Santa the jast-minute a tremendous witness for d wishes of the children in Key Mt saved the lives of five) “he mean five more from g those identified with the no,” said Hall, “I mean T’ve hated all my life. lave gotten them, too, with all money, it would have been “See what I mean? I killed and was caught. It might six—five more.” paused, and, then said with ‘s the working of Christ. to be. I had murder in my God knew, and saved those; ; }7,000 shares up %, and among/ | West. if you write a letter to Santa, | bring or send it to the Magic } Mail box before December 24. Ricky’s letter: Dear Santa Claus, My name is Ricky Kushman. 1 mas day. Love, Ricky Kushman P. S. I love you, Santa, Don't forget me. I want a train, a fire engine, a car, a truck, a bulldozer. TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK ( — Television |shares climbed today in the stock | market on the’ heels of the federal government okay to get going on color TV. Radio Corp. opened on a block of row i The | Weatherman Says | Key West and vicinity: Cloudy {and cold today and tonight; Satur- |day cloudy with slowly rising tem- \perature. Low tonight about 55 de- ‘grees; high Saturday about 65 de- igrees. Moderate to fresh northerly winds. - Florida: Continued cold this af- ternoon and tonight but not so cold into the death chamber, Hall’s lips} White fumes {LOVERS DIE TOGETHER! "2! adviser, said both prisoners\simple prison clothing, nothing) | (Comunued From Page One) | Physician, commented that her breathing lasted longer than any were ‘absolutely and completely reconciled” to death. “They are prepared to meet Al- jlike the luxurious clothes they! lused to wear. | | Mrs. Heady was clad in a bright Hien ted ep ienns gee goad God,” he said after pray-|green cotton dress, the standard gas chamber. No other woman has ever been executed in this state. ing with them in the death cham- ber. Ne Sign Of Fear prison garb. Her dark brown wavy |bair was carefully combed and {she had on a little makeup. She The killers’ final conversation—| Neither of the kidnapers showed| wore scuff-type sandals but no it lasted about ten minutes—was/any outward signs of fear although | Stockings. in a small detention cell just Hall breathed deeply while being | | Hall wore olive green twill pants ithe gas chamber. With them was strapped into the death chair. The |20d shirt, a black stripe down the US, Marshal William B. Tatman.|chamber door clanged shut on/ side of the trousers. He had on un-} The pair were not visible to the/them at 12:04 a.m. Thirty seconds |laced shoes but no belt. His shirt) official witnesses as they sat side by side on a cot in this cell. i Final Kiss As he stepped out to clamber later Warden Eidson tripped the lever which dropped cyanide pow- der into two jars of sulphuric acid beneath the death chairs. rose around the |was-open at the throat. | shtly Strapped Both were squeezed tight by the |straps around their chests and} Mrs. Heady complained about! day. Low tonight 25-30 in were reddened as if with lipstick. |coupl. Hall took a big gulp as the that. As they were led into the mio Sek ues upward to Tatman, after the execution, con-|fumes hit his face but Mrs. Heady} gas tank, she said: “I can’t es abou 4045 near the lower East coast.’ Frost in north and scatter- ed frost in interior of central and south portions. Fair except increas. ing cludiness Saurday and near the lower East coast tonight. Jacksonville thru the Florida firmed the two had given each other a final embrace and kiss. | “You wouldn’t want to deprive them of that,” the marshal said. | Hall was puffing on a cigarette | as they approached the gas cham-)| ber. He passed it to Mrs, Heady) who took a final puff. (Straits and East Gulf: Moderate’ Tatman stepped into the gas \to fresh northerly winds becomi ing chamber with the two, After guards an instant. Their heads jerked back. There were a few convulsive movements. Both were unconscious almost at once. Some of the official witnesses jhad figured in the unusual federal) jcourt trial when a jury in Kansas \City recommended the death sen- moderate northerly over north por-|had blindfolded them and strapped’ tence Nov. 19. tion and moderate to fresh north- them to the chairs, the marshal| Hall’s attorney, Marshall K. easterly winds over south porti ion asked: “Have you anything to tell Jate tonigh and Saturday. Increas-|me?” jing cloudiness Saturday and over lextreme south portion tonight. Witnesses sensed in this question la last effort to find out if eiher| | Western Caribbean: Moderate to knew what had happened to more|little Bobby Greenlease’s family ive at $21 Peacon Lane. Goodby fresh northeast winds thru Satur-|than $300,000 of the ransom money ./Santa. I will be seeing you Christ- day. Mosly cloudy over north por.|they collected in Kansas City on |tion, partly cloudy over the south oct. 4 and which was missing when | Key West, Fla., Dec. 18, 1953 | Observations Tal | j-, EST TEMPERATURES Highest yesterday ..... |Lowest last night .... Mean Normal .. PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours Total this month . Deficiency this month Total this year | Excess this ye Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. At City Office) |portion. Widely scattered showers, they ce arrested in St. Louis on | Nothing To Say Both shook their heads in the jnegative and Mrs. Heady said aloud: ‘No.” As the death chair strap was 66 being tightened about her chest, \Mrs. Heady, with a little chuckle, ®2\told the guards: | “It’s tight—I’m not going any- were,” .|Then she called out to Hall: “Are you doing all righ, aoney?” “Yes, mama,” Hall replied. The prison was quiet as the no- .|torious pair went to their deaths. |Seven degree cold kept the crowd Hoag of Pleasonton, Kan., an old |friend of the family, was one of jthem. But the only representative of prsent was Norbert S. O'Neill, Kansas City business associate of the child’s multimillionaire father. negotiated with the kidnapers and dropped a record $600,000 ransom near a bridge east of Kansas City Oct. 4. Witnesses Deaths ‘I came down here,” O'Neill said after the execution, ‘to keep faith with a vow I made several! weeks ago. I don’t like to see peo- ple die, but these people deserved! to die. I came down here to see the- sentence carried out because I thought it was a just sentence.” The couple’s last audible words| before the door was sealed were: ‘Thanks for everything,’ and “Goodbye” to the guards who had O'Neill was one of the men who! jappeared to hold her breath for/@ thing.” Mrs. Heady asked Hall, who was) }seated on her right, if he had) {plenty of room, but he made no audible answer. | | Mrs. Heady, the first woman to! jdie in the gas chamber since it j|was installed in 1938, had one oth- er woman near her almost to the end. She was Mrs. Tatman, wife of the U.S. marshal. Mrs. Tatman {stayed until her charge was ‘strapped in the death chair. Then ‘she went outside and did not see| jthe actual execution. | Inside and outside the pris. on, officials carried out the tight- est security plans to prevent any | jtrouble. Some convicts had * ex- prison last April 24 after serving 15 months of a five-year term for robbery in Kansas City. It was while in the penitentiary for rob- | bery that he hatched the idea of | easy riches through a kidnaping. Other Other convicts had reflected the attitude of citizens all over na-| tion, the same attitude expressed | after the trial by little Bobby's | father: j “It’s too good for them, but it’s | the best the law provides.” When two hearses took the bod- LEE = | Another Gift Is Added To List For °54 Baby Key West's first baby of 1954 has another gift waiting for him or her. The Navy Thrift Shop today announced that a hand crochet- ted cap, sacque and booties are ready for the first new Key Wester of the new year. Im case you're not up on ba- by nomenclature, a sacque is something like a sweater. Yesterday, 23 Key West busi- Mess = concerns = announced through the Chamber of Com- merce that they each were giv- ing a present to the first child born in Key West in the new yeer. The only rule for winning the handsome array of presents is that the child be the first one born ‘n 1954 and that it be born in the city limits of Key West. LARGE Shipment XMAS Records and Small Radios exaA @ ADMIRAL @ MOTOROLA We're Open Until 9 for Your Christmas “And here's a Good Credit Card from City Lean Co.” outside at a minimum. | 5 other gainers were Motorola, Ze- ‘Aa the. official witnesses. walked ” he added, “and you/nith, and Admiral Corp. 55% watched over them in the last few|‘es out of the prison about an hour: days. after the execution, the streets Shopping Convenience for me, father.| them that only joafed along an irregular price} I know now. them that if it weven’t these itentiaries world, Look—if' do this for me, a | miserable so-and- Phrist could do it for anybody, ther, I’m an intelligent "he said. “This isn't a con- mw because I’m afraid of I’ve never been afraid of All my life I’ve been won- thinking. And if it made) ) intelligent men all over there must be some- >", poised, he repeated his heve thé world told about . he demanded, “do we to wait so long? Why do we to be so stupid? ince I’ve been in jail, I know s the will of Christ that I n't kill those other five. He d me after killing Bobby. d now I’m ready for God, udge. And I'm gla what about Bonnie? Was she repentant? her better than anyone else, monnie was drunk for a year , . 8 drunk daily for months. a while anything seems all I'm the guilty one. She n't say no to me. The only he’s guilty of was loving me.” tside Line For ore Patrol Navy's Shore Patrol The rest of the stock market course with changes fractional, Going higher were motors, air- crafts, air lines, and utilities. Steels tended to go lower. Other major divisions were steady to irregular. Higher prices were paid for Gen- eral Motors, Montgomery Ward, Boeing, American Telephone, jAmerican Tobacco, Southern Rail- way, and American Airlines. Lower were Bethlehem Steel, Goodrich, National Distillers, Ken- necott Copper, Dow Chemical, American Can, and Texas Co, PROTEST CLOSING ° LAKE CITY W—A report that ythe State Forest Rangers School jhere is to be closed met with pro- Assn. in a resolution here yester- day. Representatives of several large wood industry firms said there are opportunities for gradu- ates of the one-year technical course. BARTOW ®—The former wife of slain gambler Ed Milam was awarded a $5,000 insurance policy on his life in Circuit Court here “l yesterday. A petition by Mrs, Mary M. Milam was denied. Milam was found shot to death in a ditch near Kissimmee last spring. The slaying has not been! solved. ce GET FIVE YEARS CRESTVIEW #®—Monroe Brown, 38, and Jack M. Cartledge, 25, both of Tallahassee, were each sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for receiving stolen prop- erty in connection with the burgla- ty of the Crestview Investment Co. Dee. 10. . In Streets Here Today Read The . Citizen test from the Florida Forestry|! INSURANCE GRANTED | |Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. 30.32 ins.—1026.8 mbs, ; Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise {Sunset Moonris Moonset .. TOMORROW'S fIDES (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide | 9:42 a.m. “2:59 a.m. 8:42 p.m. 1:51 p.m. |Boca Chica ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West | Time of Height | Station— Bahia Honda (bridge) ———-oh 10m 9.0 No Name Key feast end) —+2h 20m Temperatures At 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta aa Augusta Billings \Birmingham | Bismark |Boston .. Buffalo — Charleston Chicago eS Corpus Christi jDenver _____ ee SRR CREE |El Paso __ |Ft. Worth —__ Galveston — Tide high water through the darkness of the prison courtyard, Christmas decorations made by convicts sparkled on the .|frees and bushes, Extra Security Elaborate security precuations .;had been made, with extra guards and highway patrolmen brought in for the execution. But the extra men were not needed. There was no outburst from the 2,500 con- victs, As the parade of witnesses fol- lowed the death cars down to the gas chamber, one convict shouted from his cell: “Pour it on ’em.” Warden Ralph N. Eidson, who tripped the lever which sent cya- nide gas curling around the faces of the kidnapers in a white cloud, said the pair had been “just as normal as they could be” since they entered the prison Nov, 20. “T don’t think we’ve had any more ‘normal prisoners than they were down-here,” he said. The Rev, George L. Evans, Episcopal rector from Kansas City, Kan., who was Hall’s spirit- ——$— CITY WORKERS SIGN (Continued From age Une) business of the credit union and vote on policies, The financial soundness of the organization is safeguarded by fed- of f 36 | books, 15) Interest rates on loans are never Qjhigher than one per cent per 16| month, he pointed out. Shares cost- 17/ing five dollars each are sold and 21\annual dividends, from Profits of 4/the credit union are paid, Bennett 51 added. 33| Next step for the local union will 18\be an organizational meeting after 29\their charter is approved. Bennett qr preside at that meeting. \Jacksonville — |Kansas City — KEY WEST __ |\Key West Airport ‘Los Angeles ~ |Louisvi —oneeeenneenininemnny Minneapolis ‘Memphis __ INew Orleans New York _ Norfolk _. Oklahoma City Omaha __ Pensacola Pittsburgh Roanoke a LOUIS ii San Antonio — seattle ____ Tallahassee —__. ‘Tampa $$$ Washington 3:| _ LIFTING OF BAN $7, ‘(Continued From Page One: 56 ficer, yestereday reported that he 47 had conducted a Preliminary in- $/ vestigation of the premises and that 22 he had seen no evidence of pros- 47 titution. 7 19 some with children — now live in 39 the house. The place is now known 18 as Palm Gardens and is a trailer 23\park, There were seven trailers = pei there, Lieut. Urech Teport- e 32) It was agreed that the matter Sof lifting 15 would be discussed in an executive 12 sessionof the board. ~ 48 Seige Eva W. : San Francisco 5 ge Eva Warner Gibson, of 3 juvenile court, who was 10 minutes 4Tilate for the meeting, asked to 38)evidence that there were ,|Whom she should report if she got! But they kept on talking to each other for the few seconds it took to seal the chambe,. Did they talk about the little boy they planned to kill even before they abducted him? Their. few months of illicit love together? Or trying to brace each other for death? Witnesses peering through the thick glass windows of the gas tank couldn’t tell. Little Regret All the witnesses knew was what prison and law enforcement offi- cials have reported in recent, days: that Hall did not regret the crime so much as he did his own stupidity in getting so drufk he was caught. He was arrested in St. Louis Oct. 6 after police were tipped that a man with a lot of money was on a drunken spending spree. He led officers to Mrs; Heady’s hide- out a fe whours later. And that, according to guards who have been close to her, was her biggest dis- appointment. They had planned a life of luxury with the $600,000 they got in their vicious plot. But today — worth of chemicals killed em. They went to their deaths in _. 18/eral law and periodic audits of the | FRUIT. . . $3.95 Insured and Express Included 1105 Truman Ave. PHONE 2-3961 He added that five families es the off limits ruling] were they just two human souls|™M were almost empty in the near- zero cold. Victor Buescher, a Jeff- erson City undertaker, claimed the bodies and prepared them for and father are buried in a family plot at Pleasonton, Kan. At their home in Kansas City,| the Greenleases went to bed at their customary hour and did not stay up until the execution time. 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