——— LE A
IRENE SCHROEDER PAID
THE DEATH PENALTY.
Chair, Mon-
The little lad has been
pamed, Warren Calvin Cobb.
Indiana.
spotlight until her final ignominious
end in the electric chair at Rockview
on Monday morning. And whatever
in her brief life
——Another case of scarletina
developed among the children
in the North ward primary
building, the school room and all | of
the books were thoroughly fumigat- her most could not out admire the
ed on Monday night to prevent any iron courage with whichshe met her
possible contagion, | fate.
~The Harry C. Valentine house} With a step unfaltering she walk-
on west Curtin street, adjoining that | ed the short distance from her cell
in which Mrs. Valentine and Miss in the death house into the chamber
| assistan
Mary Valentine now live, has been of horrors and spurning
rented by the L. C, Heineman fam- | virtually climbed into the death
chair, as she was too short to sit
down in it naturally. Rise wae at’
. | tended to the chair by two nurses
DO t that
to-night HY wvetlonh Sig tee Belle- | it was one of the latter who strapped
trode fast to her left ankle.
fonte Academy football dance atthe elec
te after seven
Hecla park. It will be a semi- [It was just one minu
rmal | o'clock when Robert Elliott manipu-
fo the Be ua $300 3 She de lated the switchboard which meant
Good music is promised. | death to the blonde gun woman, and
four minltes later she was official-
——Hugo Bezdek, director of the noun dead by the attendi
school of physical education at the ly pro tod y tue atiancing
cians.
Pennsylvania State College, nas | PES went to the chair at 7:08,
been named a member of the com- |
mittee that will select the men who | exhibiting the same fortitude and
| courage as did his paramour, and at
will represent American college boX- | 7.13 pe also, was pronounced dead.
ers in the next Olympic games. i
| The bodies were both claimed and
——The new inter-urban motor turned over to funeral director E.
bus line at State College is inoper- ® Widdowson. Dague's body was
ation. Busses are being run on ghipped to Wheeling, W. Va,
regular schedules. All routes cen- | Monday afternoon, ina shipping case
ter on the campus and times are be- | only, while the body of Irene was
ing worked out as nearly as pos- ghipped to Wheeling, on Tuesday
sible to conform with college class afternoon. It was also enclosed in
schedules. |a shipping case only.
——A gymnastic team has been | The crime for which the woman
added to intercollegiate sports at and man paid with their lives was
the Pennsylvania State College. Ina the killing of a highway patrolman
few years, we presume, they will be on December 27th, 1920, That af-
turning out circus performers up | ternoon a report was flashed to the
there, as well as coaches and prize patrol barracks at New Castle that
fighters. The gymnasts will show a grocery store had been robbed
their stuff in competition with Tem- i near Butler. Patrolmen Brady
ple University on the gymnasium Paul and Ernest Moore were sent
floor at State tomorrow. lout to apprehend the robbers. Three
—The ave deficiency in rain- | miles from New Castle they took a
fall in Pen vania in 1930 was Stand and challenged all traffic.
13.61 inches. Carbon and Schuyl- When a car came along carrying
kill counties fared worst with ade- two men, a woman and a boy they
ficiency of 18 inches, while Cambria stopped it and asked the man at
was short 17 inches. The normal the wheel, who proved to be Dague,
average for the State is 48 inches for his driver's license. Both Dague
a year. Snow helps, but not as and Mrs. Schroeder got out of the
much as you might tnink, for 10 car and both drew guns and order-
inches of snow is equivalent to only ed the patrolmen to stand off.
1 inch of water. When the latter attempted to draw
there was a fusillade of
fell
ily, who will move there from east
Bishop street.
school auditorium, Mrs. F. W. Hal-
les, of State College, gave a most
interesting and instructive illustrated
lecture on the “Passi conflicts with the authorities, mor-
‘Oberammergau,’ on Play wt | tally wounding a sheriff and shoot-
~The Clearfield Taxidermy ing a deputy. They were finally
every year awards prizes for the Saptirea nt sina mountains,
pecimens of deer heads re- mney were brought back to New
ceived for mounting, and the judg-
’ Castle, tried and convicted, with the
ing of the heads submitted as the (ne death sentence recommended.
result of the 1930 season tock place
recently. In the neighborhood of
y preme court which, in December,
1200 heads were included in thecol- refused to recommend a new trial.
lection, which was the finest ever Governor Fisher named Januat
received in any year. The second 19th as th
e date for their electrocu-
most perfect head submitted, accord- 4, ~~ appeal for commutation
ing to the jud was by Frank
of iain, was % had g Was then made to the Board of
points 2 inch Apread, ome quar- Purdy he bt Aa sgting: on Wed
maximum variation. | "
(fused to intervene. Applications
———1In the neighborhood of ninety P
officials 3 ploy of the West Poured into the vi r's office
Penn Power company in Bellefonte 8 :
and at State College celebrated .C>°t STant another as no
Washington's birthday, Monday eve- | 0088 had ever heen Hglestrocutéd
ning, with a baked ham su ‘in the State, but the Govrnor
the P. GC. S. of A. hall, Re | obdurate and refused to intervene
ter-Hoy block. During the eve- > 30Y Way.
ming it was decided to organize al In the meantime preparations had
Tocal branch of the National Elec. | Deen under way at Rockview peni-
tric Light Association and forty- | tentiary for the electrocution of the
two names were promptly placed on : pair. Warden Stanley P.
the membership roll. This number
ER tog ovencd by ths Ut | musts:
on is ready to perfect] “mye time of the removalof Dague
a permanent o
pe *Eepization. (and Ms. Schroeder from New
——Bellefonte friends of Miss Castle to Rockview was kept secret
Margaret Miller will regret to learn as possible and it was not until
that she fell in her room, at the 11:40 o'clock Saturday morning that
Presbyterian home in Hollidaysburg, ' Sheriff Harry Johnston, left that city
early Monday morning, fracturing to bring the condemned pair to Cen-
her collar bone and sustaining other tre county, Dague and Mrs. Schroe-
injuries. Last November Miss Mil- der were handcuffed together, and
ler celebrated her 9th birthday annl- | the sheriff was handcuffed to the
rsary gu at the home have woman. The sheriff's wife, -
already been planning a big celebra- tron and deveral guards oy
tion for her when she rounds out 8 ' them. Several carloads of newspa-
century. It is because of this fact | per men trailed along.
that her injury now is especially | The trip was made by way of
deplored, and also because she is gittaning, Ebensbury, Hollidaysburg
reported as being one of the most water Street and up Spruce Creek
cheerful of all the guests in the valley and through State College to
home. Rockview, where they landed at ex-
——John W. Hess, who has been actly 5:20 p. m. Mrs. Schroeder
a patient in the Centre County hos- was one of the most unconcerned
pital since December 4th as the re- in the entire .
sult of a gunshot wound in the hip, During her brief stay in the death
while hunting in the Seven moun-| house Irene never lost her com-
th the Modock Hunting Club, | posure, ate heartily, slept well and
he is a member, was taken Was game to the last.
The double electrocution was a
feast for yellow journalism and wild
and vivid imagination ran riot with
truth and veracity. Newspaper writ-
ers vied with each other in an en-
deavor to turn out the most vivid
story in order to satiate the public
appetite for all the morbid details
ae blonde gun woman's tragic
An appeal was taken to the Su-
12
g
:
g
:
:
§
E
g
#
g
EE
2
;
condemned and
ce i
on
. sor, was made custodian of the last
- waitress in a Wheeling restaurant. ;g73 when Mrs. Susan Eberhart
or at
Ashe downfall
came in from Pittsburgh and took
personal charge of the arrange-
| Interest in the details were not| ERIE TRAVELING MAN A
| confined to the home locality of the SUICIDE IN PHILLIPSBURG. _ yrs Harry Dunlap and
p ut patrolman Brady Jack B. McFarland, of Erie Hav.)
‘where highway » "Va. Sunday to attend the
‘Paul was shot down while in the cling salesman for the National ii Lewis Berchey.
it was, Gypouim Co., of Buffalo, N, ¥Y., shot
in the Brown spent the greater part
at Bellefonte, at the Stewart
‘twenty-nine men and three women.
| Under the pressure of this avalanche a single man.
'of writers penitentiary officials ed that he was
yielded a heretofore obdurate point grownup sons.
i
| Telegraph company to establish a
branch office in residence of
| deputy warden W. J. McFarland,
where four expert rs were
installed to help handle the press of
news dispatches. |
Another point yielded by prison she
officials was that of giving out a volver
| fash as soum ted and a or R Hea
| Irenc was comple ano i
‘when Dague was pronounced [TH remains were sent to Butler for openings
For these flashes a complete circuit : ‘away will be spent with her niece,
' of one thousand miles of tel
‘wire, from New York to Chicago, DOUG FAIRBANKS COMING
‘were kept open and a score of TO CATHAUM NEXT WEEK.
| newspaper offices were connected up ——— |
with telegraph operators alert at Dashing, dynamic Douglas Fair-
| their keys to catch the dots and banks comes to the Cathaum theatre, |
' dashes anpouncing the electrocution, State Colllege, on Monday and Tues-
and not a single office missed the Say of next week, iB ua latest pro:
! call. | on, “Reaching ”»
All told approximately 150,000 and
words of news dispatches were sent modern story—a
‘out from Bellefonte from Saturday tornadoof action, funhigh jinks and
morning until Monday evening, and romance. It is a new Doug you'll
‘not a hitch of any great importace never forget—a dashing, daring,
‘occurred. It was the biggest news which, have been run at the Pennsylva- ago to return to her former home at
event ever to happen in Bellefonte. marketeer! | nia State College. | Pleasant Gap where she is now in pos-
All the newspaper men spoke lionaires! Racing, romping, leaping | —Miss Mary Forbes, instructor of Session of her own property.
| with appreciation of the courtesy through countless thrills and risk- English in the Bellefonte high school,| —N. E. Robb, of the Bellefonte Trust
and fair treatment of warden Ashe ing everything for the love of a! entertained Miss Hildebrand, of Lan- company, went to Washington, Tuesday,
‘and deputy warden McFarland, As girl he had seen but once. caster, and three fellow walkes in jhe | to attend the Trust companies convention
representatives of the. Common. “Reaching for the Moon® i the Shun MAMORU SA | nr. Ro wi 0 to Pie
wealth they did everything possible best Fairbanks production of recent WOWO. ° lo (ont in Johnstown be- | to see his daughter Miss Leila, and the
under the law to assist the news years. Bebe Daniels reaches new , .-. ..ng to Bellefonte. | Nevin Robbs, for his first visit with
‘writers and at the same time pro- heights as the girl for whom Doug ~~ .nd Mrs. Bruce Talbot having their five month's old daughter, who is
tect the two condemned persons risks everything. Edward Everett _. =... mrs Talbot's nephew, Tom- Mr. Robb’s only grand daughter.
placed in their charge. Horton, Jack Mulhall Claud Allis- ,,, O'Brien, drove up from Philippi,
Most of the men appreciated this ter and others are in the cast. last week, for a week's visit with Mrs. .o.oww noveng
fact while a few of them, especial-' George M. Gamble, who accompanied |
ly the photographers, were unduly The Bellefonte Academy bas- them home yesterday. Upon leaving, | WIN ANOTHER TILT,
persistent. This was emphasized ket ball team will play the Colgate Mrs. Gamble's plans were fora two |
when five of them attempted to in- freshmen, on the armory floor, at 7
week's visit with her two duughters, | In seven i! Ses. Sib marked wich
Pr Ly , | Keen e-
vade the undertaking establishment o'clock this evening. Go down and O'Brien and Mrs. Talbot fighting Bellefonte Acad
of BE. E. Widdowson to take see the game. The Colgate boys
—Mrs. Sudie Woodin returned home My mittmen dgtenied S saat em
. spend - | Maryland junior Varsity, u
pictures of the dead bodies of will stop here on their way to State Salirgey ‘wig, ares Sng: the: wit | ¥ rday
Irene and her lover, and had to College and while in Bellefonte will
ter with her two nieces, Mrs. Seixas, night, on th Y. M. C. A. floor. The
and her family, at Germantown, and Mrs. | score was 5.5 -1.5.
be forced to leave by highway be guests at The Markland.
patrolmen on guard.
James Harris and the Harris family, at’ «Skeets” Gallagher, Bellefonte
| Reading. Mr. Seixas accompanied Mrs. | pantamweight, gave a ten pound
Nothing daunted they proceeded
Woodin to Bellefonte, and after an over
-) : | weight advantage to Meyer, his West-
'to the railroad station and took their capture by the county com-'Sunday visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jerome |, Sys, ,viand opponent,
| missioners. Harper, went on to Clearfield for speak-
the shipping case contain-
w si was transferred THE SIXTH JOINT EXECUTION IN Ing engagements.
8 ] THE UNITED STATES. | -=Miss Mary Blanchard went over to
from the hearse to the train on: { Wednesday morning, to at-
Monday afternoon. A large crowd Mrs. Schroeder was the twenty- Huntingdon A
‘of the morbidly curious were also Sixth woman to pay the death pen- | ihe Huntingdon reformatory. From
see being ship- ality and the tenth to die in Penn-|
resent to see the body being SHIP" | pivania for a crime The ArSt town, where she Tet her Sister, Mrs
Rev. H. O. Teagarden, of Pied. | €Xecution of a woman took place in Beach, for a ten days trip to Philadelphia.
| mont, Ohio, Dague’s spiritual adyi- this State in 1871, when Mary Hall During their absence, Mrs. A. Wilson
! ; | was put to death for burglary, occupies a part of the
claims Was then a capital offense. live at The Talley-
| She and Dague made the
| execution of a man and woman
| gether in the United States.
The other five couples who have
i
HH
8
~~
E
g
| patrick home until Tuesday.
—Mr.and Mrs. Sid Bernstein will |
Sunday, to motor to New York City, on Tuesday, were
a buying trip for the Ritz store, which Buffalo, N. Y.; and Mrs.
is fast becoming one of the most pop- | son, of Philadelphia; Mr.
ular shopping places of Bellefonte. Mr. | George Wilson, Tyrone;
and Mrs. Bernstein anticipate spending and children, of Williamsport;
the after part of the week at Atlantic Mrs, Miles Hoy, of Lock Haven
City. | Thomas Brown, of Oil Ci
—Miss Anne Keichline left, Wednesday, Mrs. Rachel Noll and her sister,
‘to go to Cleveland to attend a meeting Hiram Fetterhoff, were in from
of the Ceramic Society, of which she | Gap, Wednesday, on a buying
is a member and before which she will spending & part of the day in the stores
E
wishes of the couple. He
to have a complete statement of
Dague's life, about 24,000 words in
‘all, which he is figuring on having
published with a view of liquidating
some unpaid expenses in connection |
‘with the long fight for life, as well
| State College by bus, changed there to
Sgaied in Soule SXavuilions Bad In | tie Tyrone bus os from Tyrone gr
I | journey y . Changes
benefi dren | principals. Dague and Mrs. Scroe- | the schedule of the main line train make
I Dague and : to the Shilds ofboth | or, however, were sentencd to this necessary, for residents of Bellefonte |
‘death for a State hway not having cars cannot get to Altoona |
The first meeting between Dague Jeath or kiliteg = | ne away by rail before the middle of the after- |
and Mrs. Schroeder took place sev hee’ o robbery. noon. | Red arts heua whes the
a you M$ Bn Seva “ert aiuto of anand 1, Met, 4, TA, rome ag a Bitoni
e and mo r, Was wo rom our eH e, who lives
3 WO was at ton, Ga, out in Bush Addition, and we were sorry OB & forfeit.
to learn that Mr. Fike is still more or! In theunlimited class there were
less “under the weather.” While he looks two matches. Demshar, Bellefonte,
well and is able to get around as usual defeated Wentland on points after
he just doesn't seem to be able to throw three rounds of hard fighting, while
off the effects of that attack of “shingles” | MeFadde Barnett .
he suffered several years ago. We hope | on } lost $0 oF Wen
Dagus Sondustey an aulotioile) 4nd Enoch Spann were hanged for
the same city and was superintend- | te MY Oer 5 Spa a ite 1a the
ent of a Sunday school. Onemight, resulted in murder and then double
the suburbs of ;
whi Snving A oy | executions, wives conspired with Maryland.
| Wheeling, near to running | joyers against husbands. with the coming of spring he will be| .gp;" gignley, former Penn State
down a woman. Itwas Mrs. Schroe- George Smith and Catherine Mil- back to his old self again. stellar athletic performer, who is
der. Taking her in his car they jo. paid with their lives in Lycom- Mr. and Mrs. M. I Gardner, of now agsistant to Dick Harlow
(crossed the river to Bellaire, Ohio, jpg county, Pennsylvania, in 1881, Clearfield, attended service in the Meth- ;
and spent the night together at a ¢,. murdering her husband. | odist church Sunday morning, while in
| not That wis She. begiulie. While only nine States have Togal. | Bellefonte Swing the arrival of Mr.
a i ch. |1Y exscuted Wotien, aere Jave been “way ;
dren and joined Mrs. Schroeder Ma | Jhchings Io ot ge Stat ae fio" p. c.
career of crime. Stealing automo- | giemation pond at Tn (for 8. a
'biles was a spicialty and at one ncatile Kat at}
Frosedhvimnt We 2mm Fie the oud of » in Wyoming in Ses 3
| parked | pioneer days, for cattle rustling,
. |
in one garage in Wheeling. From ang juanita, a Mexican girl, was
‘a short step, and it ended in
Was panged by a mob in San Francisco while in town
their jn, the gold rush days. | the latter part of
Besides the ten legal executions McCormick,
Rev. Teagarden, of Piedmont, of women in Pennsylvania, eight in In for a short
Ohio, spiritual adviser of the pair New York and two in New Jersey,
‘was early in life a coal miner. there has been one in each of the
| Later he became an evangelist and following States. Alabama, Arizona,
'Dague made his acquaintance when | Georgia, Vermont, Louisiana and i
the preacher held evangelistic serv- | Virginia.
ices in Wheeling back in 1917. The yi5r OF WOMEN EXECUTED. | t.
Rockview and stayed with them to! of women in the United States fol- COWS had the less milk they gave.
| the end. lows: | —Murt Cunningham, of
Mrs. Schroeder's father and broth-| Pennsylvania—Mary Hall, 1781; city, who had been here for
er, Joseph and John Crawford, came Elizabeth Rimby, 1808; Elizabeth two weeks with his brothers
‘to Bellefonte on Saturday, and after | Moore, 1809; Susanna Cox, 1809; (riends in Bellefonte, returned
'a final farewell visit with Irene left Mary Twiggs, 1858; Charlotte Jones, "IS city on Monday evening
for Wheeling on Sunday. 1858; Martha Gunder, 1866; Loon | 0 By a ast, Sar
| Another conspicuous figure in the Miller, 1867 and Catherine Miller, .ighteen years since
double electrocution was Robert 1881; Irene Schroeder, 1931. | he was very busy
| Elliott, of New York, legal execu-| New York—Margaret Houghtaling, time has wrought. Murt
|tioner. Elliott shuns newspaper 1817 (hanged for murder of her when he left Bellefonte,
men and being informed that Belle- baby, but a year later a neighbor structural iron worker
|fonte was full of them he left the woman confessed on her deathbed YY Well. While here he divided
. time between the homes of his
train at Milesburg, Sunday morning, that she had committed the crime;) 3
'was brought to Bellefonte by auto- Bdward and, J. Mitchell Cunningham.
Eada Van Valkenburg, 1846; BE. Demi, of Philipsburg, was
rs. Runkl } Hoag, 1852; | ~XEmest B. : :
mobile and went into e, 1849; Ann » 1882; | Bellefonte on Tuesday. Mr. Dem
| Rockview early Monday morning,
| is a candidate for the Republican nom-
| Elliott has been legal executioner | ination for County Treasurer and, judg-
for Pennsylvania since the latter
ling from what we have heard of him,
Durgen, ne is a go-getter. He has been in the
part of 1925, and Dague, the last to
go on Monday morning,
to
:
and
to
es :
|
1909; Ruth
ersey—Bridget
1867; Martha Melerhoffer, 1874. garage business in Philipsburg for a |
Alabama—Silena Gilmore, Negro, number of years, is well thought of
1930. there and is one of the kind of fellows
Arizona—Eva Dugan, 1930,
Georgia—Susan Eberhart, 1873.
Louisiana—Ada Bonner Le Boeuf,
1929.
Vermont-—Mary Rogers, 1909.
Virginia— Virginia Christian,
Negro, 1913.
is after, for there are four hustlers
the field. Anyway he'll have good com-
pany for Olle Morgan, Charley Shuey
and Harry Jones are all fine men and
will play the game squsere with him.