DETERMINED TO DIE
MURDERER MAY CHEAT THE CHAIR. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, December 13. A prisoner, sentenced to die in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison, refused to permit the prison surgeon to perform an emergency operation, for acute appendicitis to prolong his life until he is executed on April 1. The surgeon nnd nurses were waiting when Ross Caccamise, aged 24, the condemned man, rose from the stretcher and said: “I will pot go through with it.” The physicians fear that he will suffer a fatal attack at any time if the operation is not performed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19673, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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101DETERMINED TO DIE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19673, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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