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to death over a 20-minute period. Execution officials
ea dropping him again but decided not to do so
and waited as he or oaned and kicked.
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over a 20-minute period. Execution officials
1 dropping him again but decided not to do so
as he groaned and kicked.

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Gardner s a, 3layear-old Apache Indian, had served seven
years in prison for the knife slaying of a fellow Indian
~ on the san Carhos, Arizona, reservation—in-1925,—0n—__—_
Dec. 8; 1935, he and his wife got into an argument be- i
cause ae wanted thm go to chruch and leave him hame to

mind thoin infant aon Tr 4 race Wines
SU ede BRAC ABE ANS hake whe ain teds SAR AS NI wide NO ode

Nese e no- Aeecee her and. the
__ baby to death, Rather than go to prison again, Gardner

plead guilty and asked that he be put to death as soon
as possible. Ina bungled execution, he was hanged-eb —
the reservation on July 135 2930, on 2 tio that had
been improvised from a rock crusher
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__of the trap breaking the fall e Gardner wlowly strangled

| GARDNER, Bard pe a hurak

Gardner, a 31-year-old Apache Indian, had served seven A

years in prison for the knife slaying of a fellow Indian
on the San Carhoe, Arizona, reservationin-1925,—0n—_—
_ Dec. 8, 1935, he and his wife got into an argument be-

cause she wanted lh go to chruch and leave him hane to

3 + 5 RE 0 2 her —+-} |
| mind their infant—sen, In -a-rage, he-hacked_her—and-the—

baby to death, Rather than go to prison again, Gardner

plead guilty and asked that he be put to death as soon
—as—peossible,_in-a-bungled-e 2cution, he-was-hanged-eah——
_ the res don on duly 13, 1936, on a gallows that he
ovised from a rock crusher. When the trap v
; sprungs-the -noose-slipped—and-Gardner!s_bedy—hit—the-—side-
_of the trap breaking the fall. rdner wlowly strangled |

GARDNER, Bar].

Gardner, a 31-year-old Apache Indian, had served seven
years in prison for the i slaying of a fellow Indian
onthe San Carkoe, Ari: at reservation dn 1925

he and his wife got into an ee
cause she wanted bs go to chrueh and 1 Ie
wind their -infent-eone—i