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KILLER DIS. Harold A. Beach, 23, was electrocuted last night at the Ohio Penitentiary for the New Year's might "murder Shella Ann Tuley, 8.

BEACH PRAYING AS

HE DIES IN CHAIR

Killer Goes to His Doom With Voice Shaking

(Continued From First Page) It was the father of Beach, Harold V. a garageman here, to whom the Napanock Institution for Defective Delinquents of New York State; paroled the youth after he served five years there for a homosexual │crime involving an 11-year-old Williamson (N. Y.) boy.

Parole meant a new suit, $10 and a ticket here, a promise to work in his father's garage and to submit to his father's supervision of his home' and social life.

He bowled with his father and friends Sundays. He went to visit with his father. But some nights he ranged along streets lit by the neon signs of taverns. On the murder night he set out with a broadbladed kitchen knife in his trench coat pocket "to get a woman or else."

The girl was sent out after dark by her father, Edward J. Tuley, 32. from their home at 1333 E. 124th Street, for cigarettes, shaving cream. and a comic book.

She ended that errand crawling, blinded, upon the porch of C. James Endicott at 1318 E. 124th Place, at the end of Thompson Court N. E., the alley where she dropped the killer's bait, the 25-cent piece. There were seven slit wounds in her back and head. The fatal wound pierced her skull and jabbed into her brain in an area controlling sight-and life.

Ink blot tests. X rays of Beach's head and long interviews with psychiatrists brought up a turmoil of testimony on his mental status. Looking at ink blots. he saw many sex symbols. X rays showed no permanent old injuries. Alienists and psychologists fixed hisemental age at 11 years, his

¦ emotibnal age at 6.

Child or Man?

This was what Defense Attorneys Jesse W. Woods and Walter Booth drummed upon: "A child emotionally, how could he form a criminal intent to kill?"

They latched his case to the case of John Harvey Haley. 15. of Canton, who got a new trial in the United States Supreme Court. But police had questioned that boy for five hours in relays. Beach, caught in Baltimore on a tip by one of his bowling league partners. Dwight Bible. 13915 Elm Avenue, East Cleveland, admitted his crime almost immediately.

The verdict of seven women and five men, arrived at in three hours

and two minutes, held in the Court of Appeals, and the Ohio Suoreme Court decided net to review the casc because it did not bring any 'challenge under constitutional law The date set by the appellate court. Feb. 2. was left the death date. Beach went his 100-foot "mile" after a fried chicken dinner and prayers.