The Archive · 1936

UNEMPLOYED MAN'S AMAZING OFFER

Kearney, NI. Dee. 7.

An unemployed man suffering from heart-disease has written to Mr. C. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann's lawyer, offering to die in the electric chair: In the place of the doomed mat Mr. Robert S. King, who made the offer, was once a skilled worker earning $60 a week. Four years was brought down with trouble, and is now unable to ssu his wife und four children, He admitted in an interview that he saw little chance of his offer be-

Ing accepted, bu thay It woul tention to enable him to sell his body to a hospital.—Reuter.

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

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