SENSATIONAL EXECUTION.
PRISONER CHOOSES HIS DEATH. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 27, 0.55 p.m. New York, September 27. Harry Thome has been executed by shooting at Salt Lake City for the murder of a clerk during a hold-up at a grocery store. The Utah laws permit a prisoner to choose the mode of bis death. Thorne is the first prisoner to choose shooting. He asked that his eyes should not be bandaged, but the request was refused, lest the firing squad should be disconcerted. "He was the gamest man I ever saw die," said the prison governor.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 5
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96SENSATIONAL EXECUTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 5
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