90 YEARS AGO: The final plea for the life of Mrs. Eva Coo, buxom keeper of Woodbine Inn on the Oneonta-Maryland road, awaiting execution in Sing Sing’s death house next week will be made to Governor Herbert H. Lehman today. Mrs. Coo, who observed her 43rd birthday Sunday in her death cell, was found guilty of plotting the death of Harry Wright, her handyman, by felling him with a mallet and then having an automobile run back and forth over his body. The crime was committed near the top of lonely Crumhorn Mountain, not far from here. Prior to the killing, Mrs. Coo had placed a large amount of insurance on Wright’s life, with herself as beneficiary. An alleged accomplice, Mrs. Martha Clift, 28-year-old mother, turned state’s evidence, pleaded guilty to a lesser degree of homicide and was given 20 years. The Court of Appeals unanimously sustained the conviction of Mrs. Coo, and she was sentenced to die the week of June 24. Unless Governor Lehman should commute her sentence to life imprisonment, the condemned woman will walk the “last mile” a week from Thursday night. June 1935