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NEGRO MAKES
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Saturates Clothes With Kerosene
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tork.— a iiuiuun oonnre scat
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Intent on cheating the law and life,
and Sing Sing, devised und carried
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oil-saturated clothing. Within a sec­
ond he was a human torch, the dames
scorching the cell and the fumes
spreading throughout the jail.
die
was horribly burned before attendants
could extinguish the Maze, and died
lu terrible agony.
The prisoner was to have been
taken to Sing Sing to begin a live
years' sentence for an attack on a
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When Deputy Warden MacMauus
aided by keepers, had put out the
flames, Crockett was a sight that made
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that had been pasted to the body by
the liquid tire, there was not u hit of
clothing left on the man. Every Ml
of hair hail been burned. Even his
face seemed to have been soaked in
oil, for the sight of one eye was
literally burned out and where the
eyebrows had been there were holes
from which hung greenish shreds of
skin.
The prisoner had been left in tin
•ell pending arrangements for his
being
finger-printed,
photographed
and measured. In his cell stood a
can of kerosene used to clean ink
from the hands of prisoners after
being finger printed.
Crockett made not a single outcry
while he was burning.
He Was a Human Torch.
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trade commission. The hearing, which
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