Camden Woman's Slayer, Tiring of Prison Cell, Asks Review and Death

Camden Woman's Slayer, Tiring of Prison Cell, Asks Review and Death Dr. Guilfoyle, Sentenced to Life in Connecticut, Pleads With Authorities to Change Sentence to Hanging By Staff Correspondent Hartford, Conn., June 8.—Weary of dark prison walls in which he has been doomed to spend the remainder of his life, Dr. Harold N. Guilfoyle, whose wife was formerly a Camden, N. J., resident, today petitioned the Superior Court to hang him for the killing of his paramour. Mrs. Mathilda Guilfoyle, who lived at 1232 Whitman avenue, Camden, saw the slaying and was held as a material witness when she refused to testify against her husband. She later was released. It was in 1928 at a dinner party at the doctor's home that he shot and killed Mrs. Clare Cavanaugh Gaudet, and then attempted suicide. While his petition to the court does not admit guilt, he states that setting aside of his conviction on second-degree murder and changing the punishment to fit first degree murder as (Continued on Page Two)