A TERRIBLE SCENE.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 August 1919, Page 5

A TERRIBLE SCENE.

VVhile a majority ol:'.the witnesses fainted from the horror of the scene‘ two men, Joseph" Rogers and Clarence. Rollinsg.-... died a terrible prolonged death on the gallows at San Quentin’ prison on June 20, owing to bungling mechanism, says the San Francisco “Bulletin.’ ’ 4 . ' Rogers kicked so wildly that his‘ shoes flew off as his body, showing beneath his death capped face, contorted in agonies. He- was suspended for" fifteen minutes before he died. Rollins died a minute sooner. ' Rogers and Rolling paid the supreme penalty for the murder of Charles Al-4 lcn, a saloon keeper, last July. Entering Allen's saloon, they ordered a.l drink, -and as ‘Allen was bending oven preparing it they struck him on the’ head with an iron bar. ‘They then.’ slashed his throat. Securing all" the‘ money they could find the two men,‘ we-nt on a drunken debauch that last-. "en a week. When the money was‘ gone they pawned _ Allen’s watch, through which they were apprehended‘ and convicted. _ '