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REPRIEVE ISngGRANTED TOw.FRANK BELLFixlada£ Chicago Man Saved From ^uittal Electric Chair Few Min-Tforfivele wasLintain ountv. ?r the : wage Char-n and uponcousedstrikeutes Before Time Set for; coiHis Execution.CHICAGO. Nov. 26—(AP—For the second time In a period of two months. Frank Bell was snatched from the electric chair a few minutes before the time set for execu-e thev tion’ when his attorneJ’s secured a e Wit_ 30-day stay late tonight from Gov-wn on ernor Louis Emmerson.riEotballCHICAGO, Nov. 26—(AP—Sum-mary refusal of Gov. Louis L. Em-merson to intervene, tonight nulled the last frantic efforts to save Frank Bell from execution for the slaying of Christ Patras, restaurant eur.The condemned man who turned on his kind, implicated an accomplice, frustrated a jail break,LlowWBocwee£ChiTh(TucV MU Loi futiJemjScitenBa]VLeecouievelir.endedclaimed solution of the then un-? local , Desquad i, they ut the oment.ham-M.(solved assassination of Alfred Lin-gle. all in a futile attempt to win leniency, was to be strapped into the electric chair at one minute e yes- Pst midnight.in a Bell was interrupted during theThanksgiving dinner by a jailor who brought news of the governor’sstand. In contrast to his collapse Oct. 16, the original date set for execution, the youth was more composed tonight and resignedly accepted his fate.After his arrest for the killing of Patras during a holdup June 16,1930, Bell readily confessed participation in the robbery, but told that the actual killer was a man known as “Richard Sullivan.” The latter was apprehended and pleaded j pas guilty with the statement he was j wat willing to die if “Bell be made walk | cou to the chair first” !I The pair was convicted and sen- j DI nerous fenced to die but “BuIlivanV* hope j V*dering wajs tt0i realized. He waul electro*came , TOted Oct. 16. Bell obtained a last minute stay on a plea of insanity.d Ste. I They stay later was vacated whenBell was found sane.After his death It developed “Sullivan” had adopted the name as an alias and that in reality heuntil was a leither e theyI *in-Airling From ■e un-; whatTsea)upficKaiT$12havtheAe sea-y andme indownsh tellsBed-(A’byBeic!nhad been a member of a well 1 Inbothtg day irbett; Iteers; ?r; rt,ncent;rl Vo-? Wal-moIwhtonhie/beftheknown Manchester, N, H,, family.During the height of the Lingle ’* cen I investigation police were thrown or St. ; into turmoil when Bell summonedofficials to his cell and told a story purporting to solve the crime. Hesaid Joe Traum of Terre Haute,Ind., and Sullivan engineered the air killing at the behest of Patras and the that the latter was slain by Sullivan because he refused to pay $19,000 for the murder.After lengthy Investigation the story” was proven false, hit upon bv ed lt;Bell, for whatever benefit it might | airp be to him in the Patras case He 1 Jatx had assigned himself an innocentrole in the plot.Next Bell learned of a delivery com|Jnur plot at the county jail involving gernOW: Sullivan and William Lenhardt, of j worCleveland, a murderer, since exe- ; tomcuted, which had as a part., the |soliforitheDetoBhgAP)ement killing of Wardeni may kmedi-jowth .m di-Moneypennv. | pi 1 cen- ! Bell conveyed the information to [ inMoneypenny in time to frustrate the scheme.Moneypenny, Col. Robert I. Randolph, head of the association ofcommerce; and others petitioned VieiJewish the governor to commute Bell’s morsicaratlin- ; sentence to life imprisonment, fronts “Bell saved my life,” Moneypenny j com a, be- said. “I tried to do as much for Mtrad- I gatiHOWLS PERFETT SCORE I h#*rreturn him.”-ivities
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Fri, Nov 27, 1931
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