World’s Deadliest Cane!

     You’ve read of sword canes, and pistol canes, but here is the world’s deadliest cane, in the hands of its possessor, the world’s oldest executioner. For 33 years William C. Patterson served as guard at Auburn penitentiary, New York, his principal duty being to lead men to the death chair. On his cane are engraved the names of 54 men and one woman he took to their last walk. Now, at 80, Patterson has retired on a pension to his home in Hornell, N. Y. Among the names on the cane is that of Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley. Once Patterson had the cane lengthened, to permit of the inscription of additional names.