Murder verdict reached quickly
Item
- Title
- Murder verdict reached quickly
- Source
- The Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
- Date
- 1/7/20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- Image 1 of The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), January 7, 1920 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- electric chair
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- white alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- execution
- Location
- out of state; brooklyn, NY
- Length of story
- 127
- Description
- NEW YORK. Jan. 6.—One of the swiftest murder trials In New York state ended late today when a Jury In Brooklyn, after ten minute deliberation. found Frank J. Kelly, negro guilty of murder In the first degree for slaying Catherine Dunn, a maid in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sperry Clark on December is last. Next Friday he will be sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison. The prisoner showed no emotion when the verdict was announced. He smiled when he heard his fate and his features still bore a grin as he was led from the courtroom to jail. Joseph Dunn, 18-year-old brother of the murdered woman, has asked District Attorney Lewis to permit him to witness the execution.
- Site pages
- Geography of Murder
