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The State of Ohio’s electric chair, where killer Merrill Elza Chandler was executed in 1933, now sits in the Reformatory’s Ohio Corrections Museum.
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Frank B. Hanger is buried in Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon, with his wife Fidelia, who outlived him by over 50 years.
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The house at 722 N. Main St. in Mount Vernon where Ohio State Reformatory guard Frank B. Hanger resided with his wife Fidelia … when he wasn’t at work.
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This northwest-jutting wing of the Ohio State Reformatory was the home of the cells where inmates were isolated for breaking rules. It was located directly behind the prison barbershop. Today, the barbershop is gone and the entire area is full of cells and is known as solitary confinement.
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This desolate hall is part of the original correction tier where Merrill Elza Chandler jumped and beat Frank Hanger in a futile escape attempt on Oct. 2, 1934. The beating proved fatal.
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Frank Hanger stayed in one of the guard bunk rooms on the third floor of the administrative half of the building when he was working, presumably returning to stay with his wife in Mount Vernon on his days off.
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When the escape attempt was discovered, three inmates fled to the back corridor of the correction tier, hoping to evade detection long enough to escape. They were quickly found.
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Hanger worked at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. Founded in 1896 as a medium-security facility with a mission to reform its inmates, the prison had already become overcrowded and considerably more violent by the 1930s.
GALLERY: 1932 Fatal OSR escape attempt
