FATHER AND SON EXECUTED
♦ TWO DIE FOR OLDER MAN’S CRIME PARENT REFUSES TO SEEK YOUTH’S REPRIEVE (Received January 18, 11.30 p.m.) BOSTON, January 18. A bizarre case is reported in which a candy-maker, aged 55, and his son, aged 25, were electrocuted for a murder in which the father insisted his son had not participated. He refused, however, to sign an affidavit to that effect to obtain his son’s reprieve m the ground that he wanted to accompany him to death. “My son is innocent,” he said, “but I love him so much that I do not want to leave him behind me. I will die happy.” The son said he bore no resentment and shook hands with his father a few seconds before they met their death. The father said: “Good-bye, but I will see you again.”
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 9
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