“HOW A WOMAN CAN DIE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 11

“HOW A WOMAN CAN DIE”

‘GUN-GIRL’ ELECTROCUTED SMILED AT DEATH IN TIIE CHAIR BELLEFUNTIi (Benin), F<>l>. 25. frond Schroeder, the 21-your-o|if "gungirl," was eject rpeuled at 7 o’do'ek this iruii'iiiti^'' in the Western Penitentiary, R«‘:kview. Her lover and accomplice, (ilemr Hague, watf executed 10 minute:) later. The eanplo were, condemned for the murder of tlorporal Brady Paul, a. Slide patrolman, on December 27, 1920. Schroeder and Daguo were escaping in a stolen motor car, after a hold-up allair at Butler, Pennsylvania, when they shot dead the patrolman, who attempted to slop them. “1 am going to show them how bravely a woman can die," said Schroeder a leu hours before her execution. _ Dressed in a grey frock of artifiical silk, Irinmied with n white collar and culls, and wearing, as a special concession, chiffon stockings in place, of the customary cotton, her pale face lighted I with :: grim smile, she walked calmly to the death chair in the grey dawn. She needed no support from the attendant's, and sat stolidly .while the executioner, Hubert Elliott, strapped! tier down. A current of 2ioC'o volts was applied, and five, minutes later she, was pronounced dead. Hardened reporters among the dozen witnesses present wondered at tier stoicism and absolute absence of emotion. in striking ‘contrast, Hague had to be practically carried to the chair.