GALLOWS CHEATED
Condemned Man's Dive to Floor of Cell (Received 11, 8.45 a.m.) BOISE (Idaho), Dec. 10. After farewelling his mother and father in the condemned cell, Douglas Vanvlack, aged 30, made a desperate attempt to cheat the gallows, on which he was scheduled to die at midnight for murdering his wife and two policemen. Vanvlack was standing outside his cell as his mother left. He leapt and seized a projection from a tier of cells above, and ascended hand o^er hand to the third tier, finally scrambling out on to a cross-beam. Guards ran for nets, but Vanvlack cried: "You will, never see me swing at the end of a rope. I have the right to choose the way I die. I will not come down unless I am reprieved." He dived from tlie beam, smashed on to the floor head-first. He is believed to be dying.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 67, 11 December 1937, Page 5
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