Hide Article Text (OCR)
Protests Innocence to Last at Columbus Prison. COLUMBUS, C. (P), Wailing his innocence, Pang Young, 18, an oriental, was carried to the electric chair and executed for the holdup slaying of James Hill, a Cincinnati Negro. Unable to stand, he was lifted bodily into the chair. He was the first oriental to pay with his life for crime in Ohio and the 224th person executed in Ohio penitentiary. As he was being led across the prison yard toward the death chamber, the Chinese bent down and picked flowers that he carried with him to death. In abundance when the “liar’s division” of the Co-Operative club held an executive session. Winner was Edgar Welch, who told this one: “We were hunting, and every thing in sight was covered with snow. We tied our horses to a bush that was sticking thru, and went to set our traps. Next day it was warm and most of the snow melted. We returned for our horses and to our astonishment found them dangling from the top of a tree. That was what we thought was a bush. We couldn't get the horses down, and they died.”
Newspaper Details
Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Thu, Jul 13, 1939
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 03 May 2026
Other Publications Near Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln Evening Journal
Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln Daily News
Lincoln Star
Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
