Frank Mazzano portrait   Save
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections collection
Description: Frank Mazzano, of Summit County, was electrocuted February 21, 1919, for the Murder of Partolman Gethin Richards. In spring 1918, Officer Gethin Richards went to investigate three suspicious looking men near a railroad in Akron, Ohio. One of the men, Mazzano, fired three shots and killed Gethin. A passerby summoned the police, and Richards was captured shortly afterward. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08105
Subjects: Summit County (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio; Death row; Portrait photography
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)