New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1926, Page 13

CHAPMAN GOES TO NOOSE, HIS EMOTION CONTROLLED (Continued from Page 1.) low volce Bradley read the names of the officlal witnesses. As each | man's name was called he stepped forward with a low "Here.” In a column of twos they formed. Bradley faced them. “One thing 1 want to tall you men bufore you go in," he sald. “There must be absolute silence, no conver- satlon at all. I'll give you the time on the executlon after we retu re. Now we must go through th ne ward and you know how in- people are. It is possible they will make a noise. If they do, ple explain in your news storles that it was the insane ward. DPerhaps t won't make any noise. 1t they don it doesn't matter.” He stepped to the head of the column. The gray-haired prison guard captain, his hat shoved back from his head carelessly, opened th barred gate. The column came to a | halt before another door, beside a clock, which showed the time to b Through the maze of bars guards looked on curiously. ‘There followed a wait. One in the line cleared his throat nervously. All lo-ing rapidly. A num- ber of sharp huzzes in a small box by the closed stec] door marked the sig- nals of the prison guards dee in the building, reporting on their rounds at midnight Hundreds Outside Pricon Ontside, across the Dbig prison lawn, crowding the motor road from Hariford, and held back by state police, each with a revolver at his a crowd of several hundreds 1 and women had gather At window of their frame home, on watch, Miss Carrie Peters an her friend, Miss Johnson, practics it is to remain at thelr front window nuntil long after midnigh the nights when they know a a is to die in the prison The March Begins “We just think it nice tor gomeone to be thinking of the man vho is being hanged,” Miss I'etors sald. ¢ Qut of her view ths bu the prison guards’ signals marking mid- nl | to stand trial for murder, The time seemed long. Actually it was an instant He entered the door at four minutes and 10 seconds |after midnight. He shook his shoul- | dere loose from the light grasp of | the guords. Other guards closed in swiftly behind him and the door closed quietly, | Chapman took ons look about the | chamber. His pale eyes held no vis- ible emotion. His lips were in the I‘.s..nm contemptuous cury which men | with wonder, have seen him main- | tain under the niost exacting clreume- stances. He flung back his head, At the instant a guard pulled {down over his pale, drawn face, ¥ | with its hard, defant lines, a black | hood, fike an empty plllow case, | Starr stepped forward with the {noose. It droppad on the black | hooded head, the knot was fixed in a fraction of a second back of the left ear. Chapman Dies | There was a faint bLustle in the |corner where were grouped the | standing witnesscs in front of the | | warden, There was the grunt-like noise of the dropping welght. Chap- {man’s body, which had stood for | {that brief instant relaxed still as it death wera something to be regard- jed with complete cquanimity, was 'rked 12 feet in the alr, its black | hooded top bending forward like |that of an old rag doll. The rope |slackened. The body dropped Iin a groove, and swung idly Ii |thing of cotton and cloth. stepped forward, his fingers lightly on the limp wrists. The men ecat- tered about the room were caught | as if by a camera fn fixed poses, and |held there lost by some movement of theirs they became too much par- | of death. *he body was flung aloft all fdea of it as that of a i s gome; it |was only a & 1 it ssemed no could have heen in it For ona ment the Tauscles tautened, cath spasm &hool night. started column of wit- | s once more in motion ison gua captuin swung door. only noise in ¢ hamber, {remained only the lonz wait Dr. P. B. Battey, prison phyliseian, | | ties in that awful, grotesque manner Men who went expecting horror | [found only absurdity. The moment | Skotohes illustrate the leading incidents in the life of Gerald Chapman (center), who was sentenced to hang at Havtford for the (9) While sought by federal officials he robs murder of Policeman James Skelly at N Britain: (1) Chapman turns to erime at an early age and at 17 At 19 he is sent to Elmira (N, Y.) reforma- cut authorities to be tried for murder. (7) tory. (3) In 1921 he takes a leading part, in NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1926. Chapman Pays With Death for Lifetime of Crime some time he is captured and sent to Atlanta nitentiary, whence he escapes in 192 a store at New Britain and shoots to death Policeman James Skelly, who interfere (6) He is captured at Muncie, Ind., and fed- commits larceny, (2) eral government turns him over to Connecti- He is convicted and (%) is hanged at Wethe e up "s0on" according to State's Attorney Hugh M. Al It is be- lieved Bhean will not be charged ith wurder, but will be prosecute for breaking and enter Shean today occupicd elf at ssutty. jel) Har hoyat’ 46 For American Ctrcuit fn Mem. | LK LEAGLE 0P PICTURES DEMAND Natonal Leaguo Has 66 Polnts To | GUUQJMEFET"RS i and.ouer Jusior ‘work + | e o A0d He 15 Man Who Has Wide LBGION BAKES APPEAL ¢ 3o e | Rang of Vorally In the motion picture business when B A T el LR 0iae Amtrion) lirector could make his name with ? ‘ 16 big fllm ana thep E0 on g of Allingtown Hospital . f it r S bership and Attendance Contest Jackson And White Will See Bing almost ) cly revamping the old story v\ w g , ; ey e 4 p t many of the men who now eguphone, belleve those gone beyond recull, and a 10 hold his place before the t be able to ervise any low comed welrd p doing it, picture 1y en by the 8 BOOL a3 it has ceased at t box office,” sald. “The public may but the producers want 1t kind of pictures a di iking A director ress with every 1in this bus he dies a r generation of o handled nd “La Bo opic existence job which his 5 World War “Blg Parade Man's Land only affer 1 out a ecore of other 1 virtually no simy) 1t trast to Vidor, at least yn - 3 a siperlence, s Maurice s 5 3 I v Irne e made blg plefures Chemists Discover New s TS 880, when the movies maucy b for th 1S o The att ance ) r the screen with eye.stratnin, jig Uses for tl.efl(’\)ln h(.b(\. AL S bR hen gradusted 1oyt JF- : : ted - J urls $ 0Wn name, dropped out for nd now fs back agaln, ,Directing, satd Tourneur, 1ike the 11 ETey mare, “ain't what it used to [Distinetive creation fs more ayy. jcult today than before, hecguse €T Are more creators and the field for distinction s narrowing." added. “Not so very long age a lirector could leap into popularity a single picture. Now the publir S each time to be shown, The ereat director of today 1{s the o who ‘N point to a succession mnntes and | 81,000,000 mail truck robbery. (1) After ersfield. e one orles and then deliver anotk warden in 4 8 0st i CEIC v ne to " weight, « Another of the old guard s Fred vidor | into the prisorn it S HE Gt Toad, Hishio | eIl > s o her o y ists, 1L will be o coraperon §106,000 Loss Suffered :?’n.)v,. !‘Lvll‘e: n|,,m,.) 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Niblo left his imprint St v of eInes : N a long list of films, sweet, dram: nd & ] ) - elo-dramatic and funny, befer cok to resurrect Ben Hur 3 of the gilver sheet, T Sin : 1Y rize, who in private 1fe bisiors o e T illon ; | i * Betty Compson's husband, declar lor d ! ple - NOT SERIOUSLY 1LY e no director can live on the ! It Ap > blg pleture” Ang e, who Cruze sh 3 for his “Cover. within its 1 4 hine we to operati nii t Cruelty ¥ S € Je opk hospital X months at one K. K. K. Glies seare ithin its walls eho hi t ola ¥ ;i ; s nto the 19th Hancinz at Prison SO Mhap inother stre fa prison U's hanging is ot for { 1 P—Condition not ick Conway, another advocate of ¢ lsime : e e : £ t r t lo, in- ! do something different™ sehool - . i : . uffering from a fouched two extremes recently I around t is f h 1ain | ok plae L - 3 P gorrec?? 1 o off a couple of torrid lov New York State “Drys e e ; aring the Elinor Gl A s N Y A . trade-me nd then fum N S ne el S Moot Again il 0 e ) E and her name wWere tot m ¢ vere t That i in only at h Y € 1 & ri tioned In the ¥ Priest Claimed Body 1t was alsn later contirt voman at th three poor pletures will ki 8 drawing power of any director's {pame even after he has made go called big hos office successes s the n of Williatn Da Mille. He g ves that a good director, M} sehall pitcher, mnst have a Y. an ability to “mi oman friend of the sister onal W not. in A 4 ! ! 1 T ' did vot claim the he nor nained a for- ' v 1 ourteos i S8 2 desire to do any unioward ineident id of him ad . and t san outer doors frroehl on Hand. mand of any e stisfied with « 1 v the bugler n the ar y would cl | : ke, curss of the eplc pleture.” Nona appeared sor t red it 3 I to act as a boomerang ar Eman > prison ofilvials sought noose, Ju he condemn sisting in their e 4 he cel ( i : ! i S : Customs Trial Court i ehalain 0 soe 2 - r e Upholds the Pre \rlr!\ e 2 ¥ * imail. Ninety pe 1 and butter, and cof t b % % ) 5 = S e r v of a director's bafr Patrolman Skellv. X aaniina: : - i ? ity 1 of re¢ T d public etomach de e 1 he had no| oo oo w} . 6§ s r destrove 2 ng. A d RInEdgcompe v ehiant 1 neke. B ve DL Dl o o mie ! it Woman Sought Bods t § n ) erfectly possible J T 2 A e E : sourenir of hir : flent guards watehing him The execution o v had Ll or them and His Estate Two Collar Buttons > Tp to last day of his pri l. Hise previously bid < condemned man and S5t i its atendant ¢ prison offices an ers cutside, passed m of the pol 2 . A e o oo centivibusied Iry n and el ht to secure Chapr I to & Comp, t t 1 pie £ e oty fiim famous. T doud tth 11l ¢ Hart and McCue Abeent Kabtdnay ; prison 1 S etUE iy burialtin tesalno. t0 * s of Oxfor YA UGR wHeher lelther at. tNe: which held it above fthe two-f: Chicf of Dolice W. C. Hart i : ns (iNg in a uearby ‘ st . ) - western pro 1 in the floor conld not be . orgeant W, S s ; v \ \ ) i r a good picture.” ‘rom the compartment alon h ho had e Y ) 1ty meeting was one of nd) later at ths el ¥ 5 t nit i . have been o orge H. Rradley. Daro! jling to a pulley directly ir 0f a place among the esses af the entrance t b N | were not present, Warden Ssott d chamber {1 pe trailed, 10 ciding to limit the number in the hang in a loop to he wall | death chamber to the newsp: where the noose was cutght: €0 the | men and what few ot} not from whe : A single present hin j AR o kv ; re hag |PArdONs room while the hearing was (Chijcago Kiwanians Offer § prison officlais TelHad o wit vias not permfited SO : y onyms and antonyms, whic irned a cross. e % Prize for Longer Skirts [§ oA i g o Governor Guurled ) i e W N 3 hy Groehl was said b o ast n 0 arm She was : a ber 3 T v outer offi desired to go into t N - o ot prisener entering 10 NOOSE 1 ¢y at oxecutions un 14 not be vis wld be ve Edward in back of him ¥ 1 the right bower i hdued elatt he wit- & attorney in Landling the ellow home of Gove as on however, ac {Chapman fn al journed and Iradiw aiten por Trumbull fn Plainvills hil ‘.h'-1<'m,~ was ,\\”'RD\Y puty eheriff, and all who we ng directly sent when the frail little bandit : heres by m wherever making feverish notes on paps pt his appoi ° ;}"“k R . of e gnard h trembled h serutinized I (e ctiol Hi a : SXpIninedt thal ovethor 3 . agazines (€ e I was fr 1oato) The door of the chs . Wwhich | Hickey took up a vantagé point in HIS o e ) ¥ 1 Boston, 5 had heen closed behind them, swung |the executlon room and his alert. |Mm outslds the prisen. = il e anat Sealthy but would stay in the DEMOCRATIC MOVE FAILS partially open. Tn the aperture ap- | ness 1aft no room BERSRRY [ E e SOy SAXed niNine et o : & ong enough to ma N A F peared the pectacled, almost | both he and hief wonld be on|!he two prison v e not go to holarly face of George H. Starr, | watch fo prison delivery ool. She disar teputy warden, and Chapman's con- | or other unsxpected happening that | Arthur Schoenfeldt st Church Takes U olind/clog 70 h\eauction stant companion for a year in his|might cheat the hangman of his|0f the prison 1 FH - . Petition I'rom Warden ot v ek the abTs | i EmEROL B heard members g 25 Into Membership 1he perition tor execnt | ¢ in ell talked a d T ¥ ; responsibility for *he prisoner’'s safe | Only Father Barry, who was to | auently ir S ™ l the last I t members CY which 4l woms 1 ¢ 1 1in t crim 1 ceping. accompi himite ! theexecution [lanEtL Awith ‘him - QUEIE S L how. heen ace Yhe ot £ slated in the city livered S : | / The door closed softly. It re-|chamber, knew whether Chapmgn . few Wwoeks, even I B oL gion : et the goverac e J R % i : § opened on instant later. Through it | had made his peace with the relj. | over, were required fo r im | are:—G son, John Hodg. afternoon about 1 me - \ could be seen the door directly |glon in which he was raised, Tt ie | side Ll AL St Chapman’s cou ross the green painted hall, lead- | Father Barry who has claimed the | through the me v lizak ! 2obert | a for a new tria oan : SO Fe g here Chap- |body—not Chapman's lawyer Freed. | Guards were under S : foveicl § b ol 0 1By Storrow’s bmq Valued eicht honrs his |man, as the latter announced—and | €peak to him uniess aminer Batty of Wether wil At More Than $16,000,000 raccs of the noose. {the details of the funeral are being | him. In order to get allum Galbrait ert Hine, | filé a record of Chay s deat Boston., A 6 (@ —The Tir Chapman Swaggers Into Vic kept secret by the t | his cigarettes, whi h 10K¢ \ <H te Hol- s belleved vay ftood Father | It is no new thing ¢ “ather | continuously i nds folded across his ro- | Barry to sce a murde e. H {quired * to pr ach. He stepped forward. |accompanied many in t last gwift |against the mesk and stant Chapman ca in {trip from the death cell to the ex- | please,” when 1ard waggered—there §8 no |ecution chamber, the guards plung- |a lighted match close on in that term—between [ing the prisongr along, each ‘with a | ignite it and gloomy guards who hand under one of his armpits | Throughout his stay prison offi accompanied his misfortunes | “Some men I have scen dle beau- |clals report Chapm has ce he was brought to Connecticut 'tifully in there,” Father Barry has [served good h nd appetit in prison, ¥ s writin imt egular bodyguard accompan FRIDAY, inds their writing became an i1 | before they we nt : e his books from AT Barry and the Protestant minister = - Col At The — Marion Hat Shop Callahan & Lagosh ially closed papers on file Shean Case Up Soon Springfield, C man Wil