THE FEAR OF DEATH.
INTERESTING CRIME EXPERIMENT. PRISONERS WATCH AN EXECUTION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. Received Jan. 4, 11.15 pin. Washington, Jan. 2. A Chicago message states that Sheriff Peters, convinced that the spectacle of seeing a man hanged would have a deterrent effect on other criminals, made arrangements for two hundred inmates of the local jail to witness through their cell windows the execution of Raffalo Bnrrage, convicted of murder. When Burrage stood on the scaffold prior to the drop, every convict who was watching roared: "When do we cat?" They maintained the uproar until the condemned man disappeared. The Sheriff, answering critics, asserted that the experiment sought to bring the fear of punishment before the minds of men who were over coddled by well meaning philanthropists Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1920, Page 5
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130THE FEAR OF DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1920, Page 5
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