Can anyone help? Replies directly to admref@co.san-bernadino.ca.us or
stumpers-l@cuis.edu --NOT TO ME, please!
Bruce Alan Wilson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "San Bernardino County Library, Reference Center"
<admref@co.san-bernardino.ca.us>
To: <STUMPERS-L@cuis.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 12:09 PM
Subject: ?Guam execution 1954
> A college student has to write a play on the execution of Air Force
> enlisted men Herman Dennis and Robert Burns for the rape/murder of Navy
> civilian Ruth Farnsworth in Guam in 1948. The execution occurred on Jan.
> 28, 1954 on Guam. Patron needs background information on any dialog
spoken
> during the execution and general background information on military
> executions. Patron has already exhausted resources/librarians at his Bay
> Area university, law library and gov docs depository. The background
> article supplied by Prof. is minimal, contained no bibliography and the
> author of the article could not supply additional information. His play
is
> due tomorrow and he's come to me/Stumpers as a last resort.
>
> I've checked Facts on File (1 brief paragraph), NY Times index, Reader's
> Guide, Time & U.S. News (scanned the 2 issues immediately after the
> execution date) for 1954 plus all of our crime/criminal sources.
>
> OCLC show one microfilm collection of papers on the case:
> NAACP 1940-55. Legal file. Rape -- Dennis, Dennis and Burns (Guam rape
case).
>
> and one source on military executions:
> Procedure for military executions. Dept. of the Army. 1951
>
> [I know, wrong branch of the service but as close as I could find]
>
> Neither of the above listed sources are located in our state.
>
> Do any marvelous militarily inclined Womb*ts have access to either of
these
> sources or any other sources from which you could fax me background
> material on the execution? Deadline is 4:00 PST.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any assistance. Nannette
>
> Reference Center
>
> San Bernardino County Library
> 104 West Fourth
> San Bernardino, CA 92415-0035
> 909-387-5717 fax 909-387-5880
> admref@co.san-bernardino.ca.us
>
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