WOMAN ELECTROCUTED
NEW YORK MURDER CASE. NEW YORK, January 12. After every legal effort, almost to the last -hour, had failed to bring about a stay of proceedings, Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison for tne murder of the woman's husband. Mrs Snyder is the first woman to suffer capital punishment m New York State for 19 years, and only the third since electrocution was instituted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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