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    1. [NYWESTCH] Old News: SING-SING Prisoners
    2. Reno Evening Gazette published in Reno, Nevada August 4, 1902 SURNAMES: HALLE, McCARTHY "Murderer Electrocuted" Sing Sing, NY 4 Aug, Aaron HALLE was put to death in the electric chair in the prison today for the murder of Mary McCARTHY whom he shot and killed in a New York department store 17 May 1900 because she refused to marry him. NOTES: Death Certificate Manhattan, 1900, May 17; # 17012 ; McCARTHY, Mary F F, 24 y SOURCE: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=44179 ========================= Albuquerque Morning Journal July 26, 1910 "Two Die In Electric Chair" SURNAMES: LOOSE, GAMBARE Ossining: At Sing Sing prison today two men were electrocuted for murders committed in New York City. They were Carl LOOSE, convicted of the murder of his daughter and Guiseppe GAMBARE, a Fratricide. Both met death calmly, only one shock of the electric current being required in each case and the time elapsed from beginning to the end of the executions was less than ten minutes. SOURCE: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=26559 ====================== Fort Worth Star-Telegram published in Fort Worth, TX May 17, 1921 SURNAMES:LEONDOWSKI, CHAPMAN "Surgeon's Knife Restores Sanity for Prisoner" Ossining, N.Y., May 17.--Roman LEONDOWSKI, the Sing Sing prisoner from whose brain Dr. William L. CHAPMAN of Brooklyn removed a bullet several weeks ago, was yesterday taken to Dannemora hospital for the criminal insane to be recommended to the prison as cured of his insanity. LEONDOWSKI was an employee of the Dannemore hospital prior to his operation. He answered a series of questions rationally yesterday and prepared a written statement expressing gratitude to Dr. CHAPMAN for restoring his sanity and curing the violent pains in the head from which he previously suffered. Dr. CHAPMAN, who is partially paralyzed, performed the operation while seated in a wheelchair. SOURCE: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=49528 =======================

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