The Archive · 1924

Electric Chair in the Orient

First Criminal Electrocuted in Manila: Chloroformed First Manila, June 26.

The electric chair was used for fan execution for the first time in the Orient yesterday, when Juan Buco, convicted of the murder of was executed at.

The prisoner was submitted to an anzsthetic before the current was switched on.

Governor-General Wood refused eleventh hour requests for a pardon.—Reuter's Pacific Service.

PEKING, June 238-—On learning of the bomb outrage at Canton the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs sent

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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