New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 2

GOES T0 DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR “Baby Face” Gleason, Murderer, Faces the End Calmly Baoston, Gleason, bandit, Marcl known as walked fo tl h chair prison Kissing ¥ to pay with the murder of Ja Monagle, Medford storekes ing a holdup A short for the brief stu to the pri tions to 1 prisoner’s death. His Letter “Tor my mother's sake 1 had loped would be com- muted to life imprisonment. 1 am ady 10 dic and die asking forgive- ness of all whom 1 may have i Jjured. I am thankful to all vd me and especially my Joln W. Connolly, Sheriff I and the prison officials’ The erime for which Gles was committed in November, He and two other youths T Monagle's store and ordered him to Liold up his hand: and hurled a 1 cleaver at Gle son, whereupon Gleason shot killed the storekeeper. All three e caped at the time, but Gleason w: arrested a few days later at Farm- ington, Me., and soon after fessed his crime. He was found gullty of murder and sentenced to death. Gleason's parents and his counsel appesled to Gov. Fuller to spare his 1ife, but the governor, after review- ing the evidence and visiting Gleason at the prison, decided that the: Were 1o extenuating circumstances. Was Calm Gleason amazed the officers of the | prison by his calmness during his| stay in the death cell. He was at- teaded daily by the Rev. Father M. J. Murphy, prison chaplain, and even as he walked into the death chamber a few minutes after mid- night today maintained his calm. He was pale, however, a contrast to the pink flugh on his checks that earned him the name of “Baby Face.” Ac- eompanled by the two prison guards, he walked directly to the chair and seated himself without assistance. His lips moved incessantly in prayer and he kissed the crucifix that Fa- ther Murphy held before him, as the prison attendants adjusted the elec- trodes. my sentence MODERN RELIGION Pean sperry of Harvard Theological School Has Interesting Article in Yale Review, New Haven, Marel 13 (P—Writ- frzion “modern religion and Amer can gitizenship,” in the April num- bor of the “Yale Review”, Dean Willard L. Sperry, of the MHar#rd Theological school says that the average American knows any at- tempt to identify ehurch and state in this country would be self-defeat- ing, and that any departure from the principle of the first amendment of the constitution would be political and ecclesiastical suicide. “Separation of church and state 18 an axiom of American life, Oc- casionally, as in the present presi- dential year, alarmists and propa- Monagle resisted | | and con- | D= T T gandists attempt to conjure up in ! | our midsts the speetres of the pire by law next Thurs churchi-state and the state-chureh. the confcrees can sccure adoption But the normal American is not given to ghost hunts. We cannot be stampeded by propagandists and we will not & terrorized by alarm- ists,” writes the dean. Gongress Must Speed Up on ! Benate must speedily differences with the Texan Claims Men Are Slain as Alleged Bandits ,000 for cach d bank robber in an effort | 'y ihe state bankers aasociation to | curb holdups, has brought a charge | from Captain Frank Hamer of the | Texas Rangers that a “murder ma- chine” has been created. | In a statement declaring he eould | prove that four men have been | lured to death by a group which shared the rewards, Captain Hamer | challenged bankers association offi- cials to start an investigation. Cap- tain Hamer offered to wager W, M. Massett, president of the associa- tion, that he (Hamer) could show | these rewards should not have been paid. Captain Hamer alleged that two | men slain recently at Odessa and Rankin, Tex., “in bank robbing jobs, were not bank robbers at all.” He declared they were shot down by officers who were “tipped” that the | robberies were to take place and that the men acting as informant to ith‘? authorities had arranged the | holdup. | Explaining that Lie was net con- | demning peace officers, Captain | Hamer said the authorities had no {way of knowing there were irregu- larities in the “jobs.” | “The officers in every case were working on tips which had come to | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928 activities ex w Unless The commission's lines without by the senate of the house amend- ments and the presidential signature regulation of the radio broadcasting [sored by network will revert back to Secre- |democrat, 133, with a division of the repre- sentatives along rural regard to political Representative Tennessee, radio. and urban| Two other minor broadcasting licenses Davis, found added by the house, onc providing |O0 alignments. Those from the coumryi(m. & meducton of the time of Scheduled to open here Wednesday. | districts supported the proposal. ¢ v from T The new distribution plan, 8pon- | three months and for other stations ;| °5S in & showing from one year to eix months, an 1 it8 | the other calling for elimination of a | * tary Hoover. However, there is an- |firmest support among the southern- | yrovision to continue the commission | 1100 10 @ game which has a greater Itrom playing minor rolls on stage King, having admired the cffeet o amendments |a0d screcn at last was to play a lead } the Duchess’ riding habit, chose blu: Broadway in “The Buzzard," |and white for the first naval uni- six to Tilden handled the part with suc- | [OFMS. in Albany last e——TT——— 4 |week, but now has had to withdraw | a |from the cast to devote his atten- | bill passed yesterday by the body to cxtend the existence of the lation comm Onée adopte Neaded Mgislatiqn iron out its exist house on the \oulq latter | tions commission will | tion. {ment other possibility—emergeney 1o temporarily ission. the legis- sustain the house amendments, terday before final pas- L bitter fight, constitutes al revision of the nation's broadcasting system. Tt llocate the broadeasting sta- and power among the states finally was |and territories in equal proportion federal radio comimission for anoth- {on the basis of the basis of popula- er year or elsc the pass on into the limho of extinct gov- ernmental agencice. Debated for two days, the amend- approved 236 to fit most from the istations. The southerners contended that radio stations were concentrat. d in thé east and north, particular- y in New York city. on allegations that a “radio mon- tions. and talent and change would wreck the progress of Their arguments also were based | that the proposed | ers, for that section is due to bene- by appointments, also will have to |Claim upon him. reallocation of | he approved by the senate. |WRY THE NAVY WEARS BLUE The “Ashore and Afloat” maga- |Tilden Loses Thrill by izine has delved into the origin of | gotten some ' Being Tennis Clptlill |why the navy wears blue, and re- New York, March 13 (#—Willlam opoly” controlled the large city sta- | T- Tilden's election as captain of this tne Jocal navy recruiting ofice to- jcountry’s Davis cup team and the ! gay, Opponents of the amendment took | °&11 to report at Augusta, Ga., March | the view that the large cities could |1 have robbed “Big Bill” of one of | Be.dford had, in 1745, & blue riding- | command the best radio entertainers |15 most cherished ambitions. £ The great tennins player who has | Bedford !ceived the answer from Admiral Phillimore, R. 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