MURDER OF A HUSBAND
MAN AND WOMAN ELECTROCUTED (By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian <Ss N.Z. Cable Aesociation) NEW YORK, 12th Jan. After every legal effort, almost to the last hour, had failed to secure a stay of proceedings, Ruth Snyder and Henry Jtidd Gray were electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison for the murder of tho woman's hushnnd. Mrs Snyder was the first woman to suffer capital punishment in New Yovk state for nineteen years and only the third since electrocution was instituted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 7
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