Wife's Last Dollar Buys Executed Man's Coffin

1922

Nashville, Tenn. — Asbury Fields, convicted of the murder of J. E. Pierce last summer, was electrocuted in the state prison here.

Shortly after the death-dealing shock had been given Fields, his wife, small, demure and pretty, entered an undertaker's shop and spent her last dollar for a plain black coffin. She had earned the money by hard work in a hosiery mill, where she had been employed since Fields' arrest.

"I don't know that Asbury wasn't guilty," she said, "but I couldn't bear to see him buried by charity."

—Oneonta Daily Star, Oneonta, New York, April 1, 1922, page 8.