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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 19fU TO EVA mcr DIE; VER Mrs. Coo, Her Lover and Accomplice Insurance Killer Wins $2 Bet on Result By CRACK ROBINSON. i of Th NYwl COOPERSTOWX. X. Sept.

6. Kva Coo, the Diamond of the Olsejjo County hills, tonight won a bet and lost her hope of life. A farmer jury which deliberated only two hours decided she had murdered her handyman, Harry Wright, on gnarled Crumhoru Mountain last June 11 for his insurance. She was immediately sentenced to death by Justice Riley II. Heath, after she agreed to waive the I 1 i 4 JC two-day delay sentence which the law allows a Convicted nuirilt'tcr.

Justice Heath set the week of Oct. 15 for the eM'cution. but that probably will be stayed by an appeal. Eva will go to Siti Sing's death house Saturdav, Sheriff William Mikliell sai l. Announcement of the verdict was followed by eheeritur, Cop's Slayer Dies in Chair At Sing Sing Alphonse Brengard, 29, a renegade State Trooper who might be proudly wearing a sergeant's chevrons but for the allure of crime, was electrocuted in the chair at Sing Sing last night for murdering a fellow police officer who interrupted him in a holdup.

Wearing a wan smile, Brengard entered the execution chamber at 11:03 P. M. He was noinmnced dead at 11:09 1 M. liids Mother Cood-by. As the guards strapped hin in the chair, Brengard said audibly: "Good-hy, Mom." This was for 4 II Justice Kilty II.

Heath i Sentenced Eva Coo to death hand-clapping and shrieks In the overcrowded courtroom. Buxom Diamond Lil had known the cards were stacked against her. The same trick of fate that tonight brought iter to gaze on the face of death iti the electric chaif also made her richer by $2. An instant before the jurjT tame r.va net tier last Si with a newspaper man vh wagered she'd escape tho chair. Wagered $2 Was Her All.

iv 1 LJS'L '-5 Mrs. Martha lift, confessed accomplice of Mrs. Kva too in the slaving of Harry right, handyman, for his insurance. She was Mrs. Coo's pal.

Sentenced to twenty years to life. phntni awaits Mrs. Anderton Slugged in 6th Gem Robbery Ewial to Th Nrwa) NEWPORT, R. Sept. 6.

The victim of jewel thieves for the sixth time in recent years, Mrs. Raymond J. Anderton, prominent society leader, was knocked uncon- scious and robbed of gems worth la.st Saturday night, police announced today. Mrs. Anderton, whose gems are the envy of dowagers in two continents, suffered a fractured skull as the result of a blow on the head administered by one of two assail-i ants.

A blood-stained empty ginger ale bottle was found beside her. The attack occurred at 9:30 o'clock Mrs. Raymond J. Anderton Robbed of 25.000 genu. near the Anderton garage.

Mrs. Anderton had just returned from a social engagement. Though Anderton, a retired broker, and Lawrence Galkin, Mrs. (Continued on page 12) ,7 if 9 A I ii "1 (NEWS Coo, with attorney, James J. Byard, the verdict.

Hoover Aids Linked With Arms Lobby By SAM BLEDSOE. Wi iHtc.i I'r. ve St.iff VVrner) WASHINGTON, D. Sept. 6.

A boast by an official of the Electric Boat 1 Ernest Lee Jahncke Had hand in mubmhrine deal, American submarine builder, that he had placed two members on the powerful House Rules Committee and engineered through Congress a $3,000,000 company claim today caused an uproar in the Senate munitions investigation. Sterling J. Joyner, the firm's Washington representative, took credit in a letter written to Henry R. Carse, president of Electric Boat, in Dec, 1928, for the election to the rules committee of Representatives Franklin Fort of New Jersey and Joseph W. Martin Jr.

of Massachusetts. Fort is out of Congress, but (Confirmed on page 9) I lj if i Harry Nabinger, Eva Coo's kiss-and-tell lover. The defense in the Coo-perstown. X. trial made a frantic effort to entangle Xabinger in the automobile killing of her handvman.

Mi- Brings Girl to Court, Proves Own Infidelity By JACK ALEXANDER. A BRAZEN case of marital cheating, flaunted openly in court, aroused mild-mannered Justice William F. Bleakley to a fury of indignation in Supreme Court, White Plains, yesterday. The jurist had just told blonde Mrs. Lena Crooks Decker, 3o, of 80 Palmer Road, Yonkers, mother of three, that he was unable to giant her a divorce because of lack of evidence.

Then a tall, liandsome man arose from a rear and announced: "Judge, niv wife is right. I'm guilty of what she charges. Matter of fact, the girl I've been liv-irif with is outside in my car right now." get her," roared Bleakley. Brings in Other Woman. Calm amid the stares of spectators, Lorenzo Decker, 36, florist, walked out.

He returned and strode to the bench through an aisla of craned necks, with brunette Mary Setchell hanging on lus arm. Mrs. Decker blinked dumbly at her rival. Bleakley'i face flushed. He motioned the girl to the witness stand.

"Is it true, I mean what this defendant says?" the Court sputtered. 'Yes, Judge," Miss Setchell replied quietly. "Since last January we've been living together at 33 Tuekahoe Road." "Women who do things such as this do not belong in decent society" barked Bleakley, looking traight at the witness. "Couldn't you find a single man, instead of the father of three children? You've robbed three little girls of their father! Turning to the weeping- Mrs. Decker, Bleakley said: "You get your divorce." Decker and Miss getchell walked out first, then Mrs.

Decker with her lawyer. The late Alphonse Brengard Electrocuted for cop flaying. his grieving mother who wa awaiting the dread hour in her home many miles away. Then to Father John McCaffery, prison chaplain, Brengard said: "Cood-by, Father." The priest held out a crucifix for the condemned man to kiss. Confusion gripped the prison force when a guard found the leg electrode defective.

Unaccustomed to slip-ups in the well-rehearsed drama, the underlings fumbled about ineptly. Elliott Drops Switch. Executioner Robert Elliott dashed from his switch and bent over the death anklet. Two minutes dragged by. Official witnesses went white.

No one spoke. Bren gard breathed deeply beneath the (Continued on page iS) ''It's the lat of my dutigh," laughed the woman who mix took in a comfortable living from lh rural hot bloods of the mountain, "I'm afraid I'll win I'll tak you up, pal." A moment later she was up in the courtroom, and the jury atuoi solemnly in their places. "Guilty as charged," said thi foreman, in answer to the cleik'4 question. Kva, although trc-mblirrf violently, glanced at the newt-paper man who stood expectantly a few feet from her. There vti a gleam of sporting triumph in hetf fantastic blue eyes.

Diamond Lil had won her la.ti bet. Afterward, as she crossed thf green yard to her cell in the jail, Eva remarked: once, gambling don't maW (Continued on page 8, col. 1)..