The evening world., August 06, 1895
New York, NY
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PRISON GRAVE FOR LEACH.
None of the Executed Murderer's
Friends Claimed His Body.
SING SING, N. Y Aug. 6 The body
of Richard Leach, who yesterday paid
the death penalty in the electric chair
for the murder of his common-law wife,
was buried this morning in the prison
cemetery. After the doctors finished
the autopsy yesterday afternoon the
body was placed in a plain pine coffin
which was kept all night in the room
adjoining the execution chamber.
Warden Sage waited until 9 o'clock this
morning for relatles or friends of the
dead man to claim the body, but as
nothing was heard from them, the Warden
gave orders tn bury the body. The
rough pine coffin was placed in a wagon
and four convicts carring shovels
walked alongside of the wagon as it
was driven up the hill to the little burying
ground east of the prison.
A grave had already been prepared
and was partly filled with quicklime.
The coffin was draged out of the wagon
by the four convicts and quickly lowered
into the grave. When the convicts had
shovelled in the earth the grave was
marked with a number.
There are about eight murderers now
buried in the prison cemetery.
New York, NY
------------
PRISON GRAVE FOR LEACH.
None of the Executed Murderer's
Friends Claimed His Body.
SING SING, N. Y Aug. 6 The body
of Richard Leach, who yesterday paid
the death penalty in the electric chair
for the murder of his common-law wife,
was buried this morning in the prison
cemetery. After the doctors finished
the autopsy yesterday afternoon the
body was placed in a plain pine coffin
which was kept all night in the room
adjoining the execution chamber.
Warden Sage waited until 9 o'clock this
morning for relatles or friends of the
dead man to claim the body, but as
nothing was heard from them, the Warden
gave orders tn bury the body. The
rough pine coffin was placed in a wagon
and four convicts carring shovels
walked alongside of the wagon as it
was driven up the hill to the little burying
ground east of the prison.
A grave had already been prepared
and was partly filled with quicklime.
The coffin was draged out of the wagon
by the four convicts and quickly lowered
into the grave. When the convicts had
shovelled in the earth the grave was
marked with a number.
There are about eight murderers now
buried in the prison cemetery.
The evening world., August 06, 1895
New York, NY
------------
PRISON GRAVE FOR LEACH.
None of the Executed Murderer's
Friends Claimed His Body.
SING SING, N. Y Aug. 6 The body
of Richard Leach, who yesterday paid
the death penalty in the electric chair
for the murder of his common-law wife,
was buried this morning in the prison
cemetery. After the doctors finished
the autopsy yesterday afternoon the
body was placed in a plain pine coffin
which was kept all night in the room
adjoining the execution chamber.
Warden Sage waited until 9 o'clock this
morning for relatles or friends of the
dead man to claim the body, but as
nothing was heard from them, the Warden
gave orders tn bury the body. The
rough pine coffin was placed in a wagon
and four convicts carring shovels
walked alongside of the wagon as it
was driven up the hill to the little burying
ground east of the prison.
A grave had already been prepared
and was partly filled with quicklime.
The coffin was draged out of the wagon
by the four convicts and quickly lowered
into the grave. When the convicts had
shovelled in the earth the grave was
marked with a number.
There are about eight murderers now
buried in the prison cemetery.
New York, NY
------------
PRISON GRAVE FOR LEACH.
None of the Executed Murderer's
Friends Claimed His Body.
SING SING, N. Y Aug. 6 The body
of Richard Leach, who yesterday paid
the death penalty in the electric chair
for the murder of his common-law wife,
was buried this morning in the prison
cemetery. After the doctors finished
the autopsy yesterday afternoon the
body was placed in a plain pine coffin
which was kept all night in the room
adjoining the execution chamber.
Warden Sage waited until 9 o'clock this
morning for relatles or friends of the
dead man to claim the body, but as
nothing was heard from them, the Warden
gave orders tn bury the body. The
rough pine coffin was placed in a wagon
and four convicts carring shovels
walked alongside of the wagon as it
was driven up the hill to the little burying
ground east of the prison.
A grave had already been prepared
and was partly filled with quicklime.
The coffin was draged out of the wagon
by the four convicts and quickly lowered
into the grave. When the convicts had
shovelled in the earth the grave was
marked with a number.
There are about eight murderers now
buried in the prison cemetery.
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