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Died. Gerhard A. Puff, 40, German-born bank robber who made the FBI's Top Ten in 1952; of electrocution; in Sing Sing. Sentenced to the chair for killing an FBIman in a 1952 Manhattan gun fight, deadpan Gunman Puff ordered two of the most sumptuous "last meals" in...
In New York City's Union Square, barricaded by police, a crowd of 5,000 took its cue from prompters on a sound truck, wept through the time of electrocution, sang Go Down, Moses, abused President Eisenhower as "bloodthirsty," shouted a pledge to carry on the work of the...
On one death-dealing front, man has failed to make comparable progress. In the last 15 years, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reported last week, the death rate among infants from non-accidental causes has been reduced by 44%; accidental deaths have been reduced only 2%. If a child reaches...
There, the Army reported tersely last week, Hangman Woods died. Cause of death: accidental electrocution.
To prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back...