Plot 182: George Elmer Harrison Taylor

George Elmer Harrison Taylor was born in West Virginia in 1882 and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He eventually left Ohio and worked as a barber, coal miner, and part-time vaudeville dancer. Mr. Taylor served a 10-year sentence in Moundsville, West Virginia.

At 5 A.M. on February 21, 1929, Mr. Taylor was transferred from Salem Jail to the Massachusetts State Prison. Authorities executed him by electrocution two weeks later on March 6, 1929. He was 47.