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This is the Lost Boys of Wineville.

Chapter 30, Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled Thursday, October 2nd, 1930.

As much as he wriggled and squirmed desperately trying to find a way to postpone his execution,

Gordon Stewart Northcott could not escape his fate.

He had fallen asleep around midnight, but awoke at 3.20 a.m. He had nothing

to do but busy himself in his cell until his last breakfast was served. His plate was piled

high with eggs, ham, biscuits, pancakes and syrup, washed down with a steaming hot cup of coffee.

Who knew what mood he would be in today?

Luckily for the guards, Northcott appeared jovial.

He played the phonograph and danced to the music, jumping around his cell as he listened.

As the prisoner engaged his jailers and Reverend Larry Nugent

in conversation, he continued to protest his innocence. Northcott claimed that his mother and

Sanford Clark were responsible and the bodies of the young victims were buried on the chicken ranch.

They had just not been found yet. Regardless, Northcott had told so many of the young victims were buried on the chicken ranch. They had just not been found yet.

Regardless, North Carter told so many lies by now that no one believed a word, he said.

Around an hour before his execution, he called for the warden.

It was time for one final dramatic development.

In the presence of James Hollahan, from between the bars of his cell, North got through an

empty vial of liquid to the floor and triumphantly announced that he had beaten the noose.

I've done it, I've done it, he shouted. The prison doctor, Dr. Stanley and a fellow

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