SENTENCED TO DEATH
EMERGENCY OPERATION
DECLINED BY PRISONER
(Received December 14, 2.30 p.m.) NEW XOEK, December 13. A prisoner sentenced, to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison refused today to permit the prison surgeon to perform an emergency operation for acute appendicitis to prolong his life until he was executed on April 1. The surgeon and nurses were waiting when Ross Caccamise, 24, the condemned man, rose from the stretcher and said, "I won't go through with it." The physicians fear a fatal attack at any time, if he is not operated on.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 10
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96SENTENCED TO DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 10
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