MURDERERS ELECTROCUTED
HEW YORK STATE ONE OF THEM A WOMAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW Y’ORK, January 12. After every legal effort, almost to the last hour, had failed to secure a stay of proceedings, Ruth Snyder and_ Henry Judd Gray were electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison for tho murder of the woman’s husband. Mrs Snyder is the first woman to suffer capital punishment in Now York Stale for nineteen years, and only tho third since electrocution was instituted.
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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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