 The warden of the Connecticut State Prison at Wethersfield obtained , issued on June 18, 1895, for one such "automatic gallows".Executions of this type took place in several U.S. states, notably Connecticut, where among others the "Count of Gramercy Park", murderer and gang member Gerald Chapman was put to death by the method.The upright jerker was never very efficient at breaking the condemned's neck and was withdrawn from use by the 1930s.