"Electric chair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young fellow, me lad," advised the detective. "It won't help you any to be sulky. You're up against the electric chair sure." ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... history of the State on the part of a convicted murderer for his own life came to an end. The defendant in the "Death House" at Sing Sing had invoked every expedient to escape punishment, and by the use of his knowledge had even saved a fellow prisoner, "Mike" Brush, from the electric chair.] ...
— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train
... came to an end. The defendant in the "Death House" at Sing Sing had invoked every expedient to escape punishment, and by the use of his knowledge had even saved a fellow prisoner, "Mike" Brush, from the electric chair.] ...
— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train
... Lauras or something and not wear us all out before we got here but no it was drill every ft. of the way and I said to Johnny Alcock the night we got here that when they was sending us up here to die they might at lease give us a ride and he says no because when they send a man to the electric chair they don't push him up there in a go cart but they make him get there on his own dogs. So I said "Yes but he travels light and he don't half to go far and when he gets there they's a chair waiting for him to set down in it but they load us up like a troop ship and ...
— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner |
