SATURDAY
WARDEN
THE CHINA MAIL.
RED FROM TREADLE TO RELEASE MECHANISM
The modern-method-of-hanging-prepared for Gerald Chapman is illustrated in this artist's sketch, drawn from a description by persona who had examined the mechanism. The warden (on left) steps, on a treadle, which releases a spring, dropping a 300-pound weight and jerking the condemned man to the ceiling, from which he drop, making certain the reck is broken.'
MRS. VIRGINKYWHITNEY
A year ago, Mrs. Virginia Whitney, of New York, emulating the late President Wilson, offered her has- band, marital peace upon a basis of fourteen points" regulating his con. duct. He refused to subscribe to her treaty, and the judge gave, her må separation decreo, ending the war.
JICHOLAS M BUTTER
General Smedley D. Butler, marine commandant, in the accuser of Colonel Alexander Williams, tried by court martial. Butler charged Williams with being drunk at a party given in his (Butler's) honaur.
ROY WICHRISTIAN.
Roy W. Christian, taxi driver and justice of the peace, performed the Ceremony which married Edward W. Browning, 58, real estate man, to Francus "Peaches" Heenan, 15, the "Cinderella Girl."
A few star witnesses in the trial of Prohibition before Committee in Washington: (Left to right)Colonel LC dry chief; United States Attorney Buckner, New York sentative Philip Hill, Maryland, one of the moat ardent
MRS LOUISE OSKA.
Mrs. Louise Oskamp, of Cincinatti, has received one of the largest "love balm" cheques ever issued in the United States. She was awarded
379,500 after she complained the family of her husband had alienated his affections.
ANTHONY RANKIN
Anthony Rankin, of. Jersey City, N. J., fireman on the "Nelly Bly" express, was one of the three men killed when the train was wrecked by spreading rails at Delair, NJ.
MRS, THELMA MORGAN CONVLIESE
Mrs. Thelma Morgan Converse, twin sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, divorced a year ago from the millionaire, James V. Converse, is said to be engaged to Lord Marma. duke Furness, of Great Britain.
REV MRBARRY
The Rev. M. P. Barry, Catholic chaplain at Wethersfield Penitentiary, Conrecticut, was Gerald Chapman's spiritual adviser as the day of execu tion approached. Chapman was an athest when he entered the prison.
JUTIAN COLMAN.
Mr. Julian Codman, Boston attorney, represented the anti-prohibition interests at the Senate investigation of the Volstead Act
HARRY W. cat
Harry W. Cowan, who sweetheart and fred shot both his eyes, was sententi in the electric chair a fortal
The wreckage of the first coach of the "Nelly Ely" express from New York to Atlantic City, in which one passenger was illed and 4 were seriously-hurt, is, shown above just after the tragedy occurred, caused by spreading rails, near Delair, NJ. The engineer and fireman were also killed.
This picture graphically shows how the engine of the "Nelly Bly" Express from New York to Atlantic.
City ploughed up the railway for 30 feet when the ralls spread near Delair, NJ. The engineer-and-fire.
man, two of the three who were killed, died in the cabin of the engine.
CHAPMAN'S CELL IN CENTER OF THIS BUILDING
The tiny cell where Gerald Chapman, super-bandit, awaited call to the noose, is indicated by nerrow in this picture of Wethersfe Penitentiary, Connecticut.
PRESIDENT MACHADO.
SEN, DANTEU FISTECK
CAPTRCALD AMUNDSEN LINCOLN ELLSWORTHL
President Machado, of Coba, his appealed to President Coolidge to decrease the tariff on Cuban sugar. Mr. Daniel F. Steck has been seated by the Senate after a long contest for the eat held by Sonator Smith Brookhart Capt: Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, who recently flew to the North Pole in the dirigible Norge.
Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd wax photographed as he waved farewell to the crowd which went to see him all for his northern bese. from which he had a successful plane fight to the Pole.
Gerald Chapman is shown at the beginning and end of his career in these twa pictures: The top one was taken in 1907 when he was arrested: *in connection with the theft of $500 In Jewellery and the eng below as he awaited death in the Wethersfield Fonitentiary Connecticiat
FRED PABSTRAT
Mr. Fred Pabst whose beer was once said to have made Miiwankes famous, posed with this bottle of the malt extract which is causing the new furore in wet and dry circles.A permit has been fasued for the sile of the tonic which contains more than Beven times as much alcohol us: near beer
Following the discovery of
the body Jurlewskaja, opera singer, frozen in the ice of k Switzerland friends declared that she committed- mula appointed in Jove he was the wife of Baron van rescued her in a spectacular manner when she was imprisodbi Bolshevista during the revolution