Word: electrocutioner
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North Carolinians learned why State Pardon Commissioner Edwin B. Bridges had resigned his post after only eight months tenure. Similar officers in other states already knew the reason. Onetime Pardoner Bridges is a young lawyer of Charlotte, N. C. He has sensibilities. His reason: "I took the job for experience...
On Friday, the thirteenth of this month, an unfortunate couple were put to death by electrocution. This fact alone, one would think, ought to satisfy the individual who is interested in the dispensation of justice, for, after all, this is really the only significant feature of the case. But this...
The Vatican suavely disapproved, declaring semi-officially: "...The moral efficacy of the electrocution is not only destroyed but completely reversed."
Died. Nicola Sacco, 33, factory worker, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass, (see p. 10).
Died. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 39, fishmonger, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass. (see p. 10). Died. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 53, naturalist, painter of birds; from burns and crushing in a grade crossing motor accident near Unadilla, N. Y.