SERIOUS OPERATION
DECLINED BY CONVICT
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH
(United Press Association—By Electrk Telegraph-Copyright.)
NEW YORK, December 13
A prisoner sentenced to die on the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, refused- to permit the prison surgeon to perform an emergency operation for acute appendicitis, to prolong his life until he is executed on 'April 1. A surgeon and nurses were waiting when Ross Caccamise, aged 24, the condemned man, rose from his stretcher and said: “I will not go through with it.” Physicians fear ■ a fatal attack at any time, if the operation is not performed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1933, Page 5
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97SERIOUS OPERATION Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1933, Page 5
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