New York Tribune

HALLE TO BE EXECUTED TO-DAY.

JEWISH MURDERER WHO SHOT NEW-YORK GIRL TO DIE AT SING SING.

Aaron Halle, who for two years has been waiting execution at Sing Sing Prison, will meet his fate in the electric chair at 6 o'clock this morning.

Halle's friends recently petitioned Governor Odell to spare his life on the grounds of insanity. The commission appointed to examine him believed Halle to be of sound mind, and the Governor on their report refused to interfere. The condemned man's mother and sister spent two hours with the prisoner yesterday afternoon. Rabbi Davidson, of New-York, who is in charge of the Jewish prisoners, also spent several hours with Halle. The rabbi will march with the condemned man to the chair. Halle spends most of his time smoking, and seems utterly unconcerned as to what is about to take place.

Justice Scott, in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court, about a month ago sentenced Halle to death for the murder of Mamie Brannigan. The girl was employed in a department store on Third-ave., New-York. Halle, who was in love with her and jealous, walked into the place and shot her on May 10, 1900. On August 6 he was sentenced to death, but the date when he should have died passed by while the case was being considered by the Court of Appeals, which subsequently affirmed the lower court's verdict. Halle was again sentenced, but his lawyer took the case to the Supreme Court of the United States on the ground that the special panel jury law under which the Halle jury was drawn was unconstitutional. The second date of death passed again before the Supreme Court decided against Halle. He was then re-sentenced to die on Monday, August 4.