Fornshell, Marvin E, THE HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATED OHIO PENITENTIARY, 1907-1908, Image clarified and copyrighted 1997 by Arthur W. McGraw, page 159 Name: James W. CORNELIUS (Prisoner 37306) Crime: Murder Location: Canton, Stark County Executed: 28 June 1907 NOTES: "James W. CORNELIUS was the twenty-seventh to meet death in the O. P. electric chair. The law's extreme penalty was imposed on him June 28, 1907, for taking the life of his wife by beating her with an iron win- dow weight, at their home in Canton, Sept. 17, 1906, while intoxicated."