ROSS

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 05:02:12 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, October 20, 1904
Page 3

San Quentin Prisoner Meets Accidental Death

A. R. Ross, a convict, came in contact with a live wire while painting the sash and blind building at San Quentin prison Thursday and was instantly killed. Ross was working on a scaffold and slipped. In his endeavor to save himself from falling he grasped a wire carrying 2,000 volts of electricity. He dangled in the air a minute and then dropped to the ground. When picked up he was dead. Ross was serving eight years for a felony committed in Fresno. He had relatives residing in Tacoma.