AMERICAN CRIMINALS

Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 5

AMERICAN CRIMINALS

SAVED FOR EXECUTION. SURGEON'S SUCCESSFUL FIGHT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. CHICAGO, March ii. Four surgeons of Michigan City worked without ceasing for 20 hours lo save the life of Harley Edwards, convicted of murder, in order to give the prison authorities a chance to execute him legally. Edwards was to he sent to the electric chair early. He iiad 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 lor electrocution. Two blood transfusions revived him, and lie was partly conscious when the guards carried him into Hie death chamber. One shock sufficed lo extinguish the feeble spark of life.

NOTORIOUS killer

DILLINGER AT LARGE.

DILIGENT POLICE SEARCH. Lulled Press Assn. —Elec, lei Copyright. CHICAGO, March 11. Now that John Dillingcr, America’s must cold-blooded killer, lias broken out of one gaol, police fear that lie may break into another. The people arc asking “ What wilt Dillingcr do next?” His three bankrobber partners are in gaol at Lima, Ohio, and Hie guards there have been doubted, lcsL Dillingcr attempt to break in and sot them free. Several thousand policemen in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio conducted a widespread hunt during the weekend for Dillingcr, who was at one lime a farm boy, but inis grown into the nation’s most notorious killer and bank robber. He was reported seen and surrounded in a dozen places, but invostigation showed that it was not Dillingcr.

Aided by ids little wooden pistol ami own imaginative and desperate genius, he evidently got clear away.