MURDERER'S LIFE SAVED
SURGEONS’ LONG FIGHT. PRESERVED FOR LEGAL DEATH. CHICAGO, Maith fi. Four surgeons of Alichigan City worked without ceasing for 20 hours to save the life of Harley Edwards, cob victed of murder, in order to give the prison authorities a chance to execute him legally. Edward.s was to be sent to the elec trie chair early. He had smashed his spectacles and gashed his wrists with a broken lens. Guards found him near death from loss of blood. ’Then began the long fight to keep him alive for electrocution. Two blood transfusions revived him, and he was partly conscious when the guards carried him into the death chamber. One shock sufficed in extinguish the feeble spark of life.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 5
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121MURDERER'S LIFE SAVED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 5
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