SIPPLE, Curtis Caleb
Sipple, a 2l-year-old white native of Cincinnati, Ohio, was employ-
ed as a workman by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cly, York Co., Pal
He shared a shanty with two other workmen, Gabprial Perrachin, an
Italian, and James Critchlow, an Englishman. On the night of May
12-13, 1919, he killed Perrachin and fatally wounded Critchlow in
order that he might steal from them enough money to go home to
Cinnannati. He was not captured until May 7, 1921, when he was
taken into custody by a State Trooper in Laymon, Harlan Co., Kyey
where he was living at the time. Returned to Pemsylvania, Sipple
took officers to the scene of the crime and reenacted it though
he claimed that he did not know why he had killed the two men.
Convicted and sentenced to death, he aroused a good bit of sympa-
thy among the citizens of York County and a large number of them
petitioned the Governor for a commutation of his sentence. How-
ever, the Governor refused to intervene and he was electrocuted on
Oct. 30, 1922.
YORK DISPARCH, York, Pa., 10-30-1922
SIPPLE, Curtis Caleb
Sipple, a 21-year-old white native of Cincimati, Ohio, was employ-
ed as a workman by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cly, York Co., Pal
He shared a shanty with two other workmen, Gabrial Perrachin, an
Italian, and James Critchlow, an Englishman. On the night of May
12-13, 1919, he killed Perrachin and fatally wounded Critchlow in
order that he might steal from them enough money to go home to
Cinnannati, He was not captured until May 7, 1921, when he was
taken into custody by a State Trooper in Laymon, Harlan Co., Kyey
where he was living at the time. Returned to Pennsylvania, Sipple
took officers to the scene of the crime and reenacted it though
he claimed that he did not know why he had killed the two men.
Convicted and sentenced to death, he aroused a good bit of sympa-
thy among the citizens of York County and a large number of them
petitioned the Governor for a commtation of his sentence, How-
ever, the Governor refused to intervene and he was electrocuted on
Oct. 30, 1922.
YORK DISPARCH, York, Pa., 10-30-1922
SIPPLE, Curtis Caleb
Sipple, a 21-year-old white native of Cincinnati, Ohio, was employ-
ed as a workman by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cly, York Co., Pad
He shared a shanty with two other workmen, Gabrial Perrachin, an
Italian, and James Critchlow, an Englishman, On the night of May
12-13, 1919, he killed Perrachin and fatally wounted Critchlow in
order that he might steal from them enough money to go home to
Cinnamnati, He was not captured until May 7, 1921, when he was
taken into custody by a State Trooper in Laymon, Harlan Co., Kyss
where he was living at the time, Returned to Pennsylvania, Sipple
took officers to the scene of the crime and reenacted it though
he claimed that he did not know why he had killed the two men.
Convicted and sentenced to death, he aroused a good bit of sympa~
thy among the citizens of York County and a large number of then
petitioned the Governor for a conmtation of his sentence, liow=
ever, the Governor refused to intervene and he was electrocuted on
Oct. 30, 1922.
YORK DISPARCH, York, Pa., 10-30-1922
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