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ANNA’S DEATHIN CHAIR HOLDSWIDE INTERESTMrs. Hahn’s Electrocution One of Several in Ohio Holding News Spotlight in U. S.(By Associated Press) COLUMBUS—Although perhaps more widely publicized than any of the others, the electrocution of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn last night is only one of several in Ohio which have made the front pages t of the nation during the pastdecade.Dan Bonzo, Ohio penitentiary record clerk, recalled today that the execution of James H. Snook, teacher of veterinary medicine a* Ohio State university, caused widespread interest in 1930.Snook was electrocuted Feb. 28, 1930, for the love-slaying of The-ora EL Hix, a former university student and stenographer in Snook’s office.Snook’s own statement, on file at the prison, admitted that on June 13, 1929, he took the girl to a rifle range near Columbus for atryst such as they had engaged in 1for three years She struggled with him when he attempted to leave.The girl's body was found on the range, mutilated with knife wounds, which Snook was convicted of inflicting, Snook was 49 years old‘Toughest of All.’Described by Bonzo as the “toughest of them all” was Harry Pierpont, 31, a member of the John Ddiinger gang of outlaws.Pierpont and Charles Makley were convicted of killing Jess Sar-ber, Allen county sheriff, in a jail break at Lima on Oct. 12, 1933. Pierpont was considered so dangerous he was escorted to the penitentiary' by a group of national guardsmen.On Sept 22, 1934, Pierpont and Makley attempted to escape from the penitentiary. Makley was shot to death by prison guards and Pierpont wounded. Pierpont went to the electric chair Oct. 17, 1934.Bonzo said that no woman ever had been executed in Ohio penitentiary. Files of the old Columbus jGazette showed that a colored woman whose first name was Esther, and her last name unknown, was hanged in Columbus, Feb. 9, 1844, for killing a white woman state prisoner.Bonzo declared that counties did the executing in those days and that the state prison had no record of the case.Lee's history of Columbus records that a woman, Mary Garrett, was sentenced to execution from Medina county in 1888 but Gov James Foraker commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.On June 22, 1931, Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther was sentenced to the electric chair for the slaying of Mrs. Tilby Smith of Ashtabula. The district appellate court saved Mrs. Lowther from death when it held that several jurors had not been qualified properly. In a. new trial, she was given a life sentence.SENDS WOMAN
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Mansfield News Journal
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 08, 1938
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