Posted on 01/29/2021 2:20:21 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A century ago today, 20-year-old Albert Walter strolled the 15 feet from the death cell to the Sing Sing electric chair, calling out “Good-bye boys” to his fellow-prisoners as he died for the murder of 15-year-old Ruth Wheeler in a possible white slavery crime two years earlier.
Wolter left a note steadily — all the reports remark on the youth’s sangfroid; he took a nap while the jury went to deliberate with his life in its hands — avowing his innocence, and indulging the “hope there may come a time when the conscience of the perpetrator will overpower him, and he will come to the front and acknowledge his guilt.” He charitably added for “those who have maliciously prosecuted and killed me, for them I pray God’s forgiveness.”
Lots of New Yorkers would have had to ask it.
Despite his cool under fire, Wolter was overwhelmingly acclaimed the guilty party, the evidence against him being as close to airtight as circumstantial gets...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
I'll bet that guy excerpted his own blog.
What a degenerate. What a punk. What a fruity scammer.
I usually like this blog but today it’s practically unreadable. A rhetorical flourish is supposed to be poetic AND comprehensible.
Well, he deserved it. Funny that we no longer call it “white slavery”, apparently it isn’t PC to care about white girls who are roped into prostitution.
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