THE PENALTY PAID
AN AMERICAN MURDERER. v CARRIED TO THE GALLOWS. (United Pres* Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, October 3. (Received Oct. 4, at 0.15 a.m.) Gordon gteiyart Northcott, wlio murdered a dozen boys, victims of Lis inhuman lust, himself died on the gallows in San Quentin Penitentiary, where bin mother is serving a life sentence for participation in the strange crimes. ; Northcott died as he lived, a supreme faker, and he collapsed as he faced the gallows. Up to that moment he had pre- , tended that he would escape the noose, but when he saw death, only /seconds away he fainted, and was carried to the ' gallows.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 13
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