(L.J.~ ~ esten;ears ~ 'luesrfay, :Mi{y 4, 1999 Flori a' s 'Go her Hill' a final stop for outlaws fter killing Chicago May­ death in the swiftest legal execu­ ian clothes. The cost to taxpay­ or in a tion this century, according to ers is $940 for embalming, cas­ A failed at- Blaise Picchi, author of the book, ket and clothing, said Debbie tempt on President-elect "The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Buchanan, a prison spokes­ Franklin Roosevelt, a 33-year-old Zangara: The Man Who Would woman. Cremations are $425 Italian bricklayer wound up in Assassinate FDR." plus $55 for a pouch to hold the Florida's a month Like relatives of many of the ashes. later. other criminals, Zangara' s About 70 of the graves are "Viva Italia! Goodbye to all refused to claim his body. On those of indigent residents of poor people everywhere!" his tombstone, his name is mis­ Florida State Hospital in nearby Giuseppe Zangara said when spelled "Zangana Giuseppe" Macclenny. asked for his final words. "Push and the date of his death is list­ About once a week on aver­ the button! Go ahead, push the ed incorrectly as March 30. age, a prison work crew under button!" Seventy-four of the 240 tlie direction of Corrections Zangara and other killers like inmates executed in Florida's Officer Jerry Bryant will dig a him are buried alongside electric chair are buried in the grave and then sometimes serve rapists, thieves and other crimi­ cemetery, about 50 miles south­ as mourners as the unclaimed nals in orderly rows under aged west of Jacksonville. body of an illmate is laid to rest. pines on the grounds of Union Among them is Frank If the family requests it, the Correctional fostitution in Johnson, the first person to die deceased is cremated, and the Raiford, Fla. More than 1,000 in the state's electric chair. remains of 51 cremated inmates inmates in all have found their Johnson was executed Oct. 7, are buried here. final resting place in the ceme­ 1924, for the fatal shooting of When the old graveyard ter1 known: both as "Boot Hill" locomotive engineer Atley B. filled up, a new one opened in and "Gopher Hill." Terrell during a robbery in 1995 about a mile down the All died in Florida prisons. Jacksonville. road. Their grave markers give no The first inmate buried in the Bryant keers a book listing hint of the crimes that led to cemetery was Justice Rice, a the names of the dead and the them spendin~ their final days black who died on Oct. 30, 1913. location of their graves. behind bars. Their plots are He was followed by Samuel All inmates get a simple marked with concrete slabs Small, a white who died on funeral, said Robert Clyatt, one bearing license tag-shaped metal Ap1il 10, 1914. Unlike many of 12 chaplains who rotate per­ plate stamped in fue prison's cemeteries of the time whiCh forming fast rites. motor vehicle tag plant with segregated graves by race, Rice "It's pretty much like other name, date of death and and Small were buried side by funerals, except we don't have Department of Corrections num­ side. any sincing," said Clyatt, a President Johnson listens to a tape recording from his son-in-law Capt ber. Another notorious criminal Freewilf Bartist who usually Charles Robb, who was a U.S. Marine Corps company commander in Zangara, who emigrated interred here is Ottis Toole, who reads from the Scriptures and Vietnam. The photo is part of ''Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years from Italy to Hackensack, N.J., confessed and later recanted his delivers a short message. of Photography" March 1999-July 4, 2001. Photo was taken by Jack is the most notorious criminal involvement in the 1981 slaying "It's not as elaborate if there Kightlinger at the White House on July 31, 1968. laid to rest here. He fired several of 6-year-old Adam Walsh. are no mourners," he said. Veteran movie actor Kirk shots at Roosevelt's car in Toole, once a sidekick of Texas The only guard buried on Douglas was born in Miami's Bayfront Park on Feb. killer Henry Lee Lucas, died in Boot Hill is W.H. Nettles, who 15, 1933, missing the president­ prison in 1996 after being diag­ died of a.heart attack on March Amsterdam, N.Y., Dec. 9, 1916. elect but fatally wounding nosed as having cirrhosis of the 31, 1953, at age 26. Arbaugh-Pearce Cermak He was quoted as say­ liver. He was never charged He had no family to claim his ing he did it because he hated with the Walsh death. body. He has the only upright eeni.~en an officials and rich people. 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