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iu-emateinelyCONDEMNED PAIRBITTER AS FATheheni-er.FROWNS OH THEM-he (Continued From Page Onel Lenhe Smith said 'from his cell; rising ill- from a cot and leaning against the iq. black steel frame of his coll door. »nt There never was any love for the in girl, on my part.”Smith Ls in the state penitentiary, He Is to die August 17,Mrs. Lowther is in city.prison, ’ just down the Scioto river from the state prison. She was to‘die Octo-Moed t!lleverthewcounwho avem The : lmatlt; montsheri this ' his 1: wh'.c' seat, FnDece 37 yiDUtingeelinaveghtdreuly;traber 2. An appeal has been enteredCt3ilrdait-roy.,’er-15.$deer.erov,sent,nedling)senay’sviissaladwillfor her. Ohio never has electrocuted a woman.I don’t want to see him,” Mts. Lowther said of Smith, when she was told he was not far away.She showed no emotion at mention of his name. The woman would talk but little.“I don’t know;, whether I will get a new' trial,” she replied to a question, then fell silent. * • *Smith, however, wanted to talk.“I want it understood I am not going to hide behind a skirt,” he declared. He was speaking in a cold tone, suggesting cold disdain.Yet, I don’t expect Maude to say anything about the case, because I don’t think she wants me to getout of it.She thinks I squealed to the police. There wasn’t anything I could tell them. I have told everything.Smith frowned on the idea of love between him and the woman whom he is sentenced to precede to the electric chair.X only knew Maude about ten days before the thing happened/' he said, returning to his cot.“I don’t know. I didn't think she ever would do a thing like that.”Mrs. Lowther was convicted ot shooting' Mrs. Smith. Smith allegedly gave her the gun and assisted in the pi fin to dispose of his wife. He declared he was Innocent and that he still believed he would getrjey executive clemency.1III.Y IS A R1R•xu
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Piqua Daily Call
Piqua, Ohio, US
Wed, Jul 22, 1931
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