If you let this go by, there won""t be nothing safe around here, our cattle, our homes, not even our women folks.Rennie took the driver""s seat of the police car and drove the car straight at Jason, striking him and propelling him into the windshield and onto the ground.But their sloppy, conspiratorial murder was quickly detected and they were apprehended.Both were convicted and sentenced to death - and were electrocuted in January of 1928 at Sing Sing.An infamous tabloid picture, surreptitiously aken (with a camera strapped to his ankle) by news photographer Thomas Howard of Ruth""s body as she was executed, was published on he front page of the New YorkDaily News.MacCaulay explained how he hadn""t heard from or seen Wynant for three months ("He sends word through his secretary Julia Wolf when he wants money.