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Issue Ends In Gas Chamber SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP)—Caryl Chessman died yesterThe potassium day in the San Quentin prison gas chamber, cyanide pellets dropped into the acid in the apple-green death
chamber at 10:03:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, and Chessman was pronounced dead at 10:12, (1:12 p.m. Puerto Rico time.)
Just as the fatal fumes rose, the 38-year-old Chessman managed
a laugh, almost a chuckle. No one could hear him through the sound- proof walls of the hermetically sealed | chamber, but he spent his final moments mouthing words directed toward Mrs. Eleanor Black, Los Angeles reporter, who had interviewed him many times. Chessman condemned on two counts of kidnaping with bodily harm in Los Angeles lovers’ lanes in 1948, took a deep breath as the fumes rose. Then his head went half-way backward and stayed tilted back for several seconds,
with the mouth wide open. His black hair was neatly combed and he wore a white shirt, open at the throat. Dréps of saliva trickled from his open mouth. At 10:09 am., a little over five minutes after the pellets had dropped, his shoulders quivered sli ghily.
He had entered the chamber at 10:04 a.m., preceded by one guard by three others. were
CARYL CHESSMAN » e. the light went
out |
The 60 witnesses jammed Hardly a breath silent. pRDOcnte, Warden Walter blind behind The
in front of the thick windows of the death chamber stirred. D. Achuff announced the official time of death. which Warden Fred R. Dickson stands, a little distance (See
Lang Mystery Leans| Away From Suicide By Was
HORST
BUCHHOLZ
by a bullet accidental or was it murder? ~ Prosecuting Attorney Obdulio Bauza yesterday refused to reveal what his investigation into the
case had divulged so far. But he did say: “I tend to disregard
the possibility
Several
people
of suicide.”
have
been
in-
terviewed in connection with the death Saturday of Lang, a 48-year
old
assistant
director
for
deve-
Ponce Man Adrift
nistration.
Bauza
yesterday
said:
cutter
cue. According Leslie
Hugh
speeding
to
the
to
the
Coast
Fleming,
of
be
a cru-
tween
communistic
“be-
imperialism
and freedom founded in faith and justice.”
case.” Bauza added that he also expected to discuss the case with Alexander Shaw, regional counsel
hope that the eee won't be slashed deeply bY Congress. But he said “groups strategical-
the
further
Public
study
Housing
-of
The
one
of
two
janitors
toward
a non-suicide
theory, Bau-
ed
on
his
desk.
Another
reason,
La Rambla, in Ponce, apparently -he added, was the position of the ran out of gas in his 14ton motor body when police arrived, vessel, ‘The Sea Jack,” early Cast A Shadow yesterday morning. Distress sigSome other facts which appanals were first heard in Bermuda rently seem to cast a temporary (See MAN ADRIFT, Page 21) (See Lang Mystery, Page 21) ®
expressed
in Congress
the
have
pro-
claimed it as their fixed purpose to slash the appropriation for this
found
za said that a letter from Lang’s daughter, had been found unopen-
President.
ly situated
Adminis-
the body in the agency’s office in the Banco Crédito y Ahorro Building at Stop 17 on Ponce de Leon
B
would
the
pending
after
res-
program
shing defeat in the struggle
out anything. But I tend to disregard the possibility of suicide
of
Guard, 19
foreign
“I don’t rule
By BOB BONE A Ponce man, on his new yacht has expressed the with three companions aboard, is Ave. Shaw adrift off the coast of the Do- ‘opinion that suicide was unlike~minican. Republic this morning, ly. Citing his reasons for leaning awaiting the arrival of a Coast Guard
WASHINNGTON ((%)—President Eiséhhower. said last night anydrastic cut in his $400,000,000,000
tration, possibly today. Shaw was the man who called authorities
Off Dominican Shore
21)
For Freedom
con-
of the federal agency. Earlier hé talked to the janitor who first found the body. Asked whether he ruled out Bauza
Page
Ike Fears Aid Cut As Defeat
sulted with Rafael Ramirez, head
suicide,
CHESSMAN,
+
lopment of the P.R. regional office of. the Public Housing Admi-
Frederick W. Lang’s death
and followed
-GAS
CHAMBER
CHAIR
« « e worldwide
controversy rests
mainstay of the Free World more than a billion dollars.”
by
Europeans Shout Shame! Danish Ship Missing Over
Chessman’s Death
LONDON
coiled with “Shame!”
(AP)—Europe
horror last
and
night
re-
from
the
Caryl Chessman execution. Newspapers, prominent figures, and people of all walks of life termed the gas-chamber
death ful”
of the convict as “frightand
“monstrous.”
Some
said
it
would
damage
cries of United States prestige throughout the
world,
though
a
minority
supported the execution. Evenjng papers published extras and radio stations broke into
their
of the
programs
with
news
execution.
(See SHOUT
SHAME!, Page 21)
COPENHOAGEN: (AP) — A Danish motor ship with 18 persons on board was reported missing last night south of Greenland —in the same general area where
the
Danish
Greenland
li-
ner Hans Hedtoft hit. an iceberg and went down with 953 aboard early. in 1959. The
ship,
Hanne
S.
of
Svend-
borg, 499 tons, has not been heard from since Saturday.