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John Truck Is Preparing toDie.THE CONDEMNED |EXPRESSED A DES.JHE TO SEE j A CATHOLIC CliEROYjm.The Hot'. FnthPT ITlclc«*y will Act «lm HU Spiritual Advl»er »utlVlwlt JIlxu Up to tlvc Time ot HI* Execution Daring; tlic L*Jit AVcck of Thl* Mouth.Aunirity, April T.—John Truck, tin* Cortland murderer, who is sentenced to die in the electric chair iu Auburn prison some time during die week beginning April 29ih, is.just beginning to realize the hopelessness of his position. Ho uo longer looks ahead to a new trial,, lmt is busy preparing himself for bin journey into eternity. Truck, when visited by Chaplain Herrick, wud that he was a Catholic and asked tiiat a clergyman of that denomination be selected as his spiritual adviser. Father Hickey of tho Holy Family church in this city was uotilied mid will prepare •the man for death.There is but little hope of nn appeal In the Truck case. Warden Mead has been informed somi-ofllcially by Cort-land parties Lhiu everything bus been done that will be done in the condemned man's ease and chat he must take cho chair during tho week named.Truck still keeps up bis nerve. He is reserved and uncommunicative in his s^eefii. This is due more to the fact llull he is seen only by his guards and those allowed by law to visit the cells for the condemned than from any disin-elination on his part to talk. Since his arrival at Auburn prison be has not been visited by any of his friends or relatives.
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Syracuse Sunday Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Apr 08, 1900
Page 21
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