Fornshell, Marvin E, THE HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATED OHIO PENITENTIARY, 1907-1908, Image clarified and copyrighted 1997 by Arthur W. McGraw, page 154 Name: William HAAS (Prisoner 28717) Crime: Murder-rape Location: Hamilton County Executed: 21 April 1897 NOTES: William HAAS "had the unenviable notoriety of being the first to die in the electric chair in the Ohio Peniten- tiary. He was electrocuted April 21, 1897, for murdering with a razor, Mrs. William BRADY, wife of his employer, ... July 3, 1896. Rape was the motive."