The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-08
FOURTH EDITION
EXECUTION OF Paonsr.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
THE LONG, LoxG MINUTES


Sher ff Howell had the courage to adjust the
correctly and to pull the rop) that launched ProDst
into eternity As ne did the tense nerves Yielded,
ana he had to ret on the arm o. Trend for sup
port
Hanging there in the broad glare Of the bright
sunshine, Anton Prohsts body quivered convulsivelt
In the limbs, the mucos o. tue On from he throat
downwsfds, twitehed strong again and again.
The body swayod nom side TO side with the motion
Of The rope. In few minutes the movement ceased,
and the body hung lnotiODless.
From time TO time The surgeon, DR.. Henry smith,
felt his lulse. In ten minutes the handouts were
taken from lis puTpod hands tine covered barro
was brought for his body, the ladder was lifted to
the Cross beam, and after hanging rom fifteen minutes
past eleven he was
CUT DOWN AT LAST
His body was laid upon the bier, and tho burial
eervee of the Catholic Church was read over IL
while the cruciflx lay upon 1t. The regulations of
the Church do al ow the corpse 10 be inferred in
hallowed ground; but the service, even to the
spIinklIng Of the holy water upon 1t, was per-
THE FATE OF THE REMAINS
Through a deputy sheriff, the corpse was then sur
rendered TO the Inspecor Of Mos amensing, repre-.
sened by Messrs Perkins ana Brodhead. BY tnemt
was transferrt 10 the Faculty of Jefferson Medical
College, as Antoine IrObst manifested wish for
burial The body immed ley taken to the
pant shop for q series of
GALvANic EXPERIMENTS
The white cap was removed, the ro @ severed from
the neck showing the OPEN vid lips the haltc osed
neck. ] he body then p aced in a char, and
the heed upheld A medical examination was made,
and the right eye removed
record Of the results prepared for the public by
Dr. RandIs presented. A more thorough and SC en-
tIfc article OF the valuable results obtaned will be
bubfshed in the columns o ( q meulcal ioIrnal
MEDICAL REPORT.
After the body was cut down IT was handed over
to the surgeons Tor experiment. There present.
besides Drs. N B. Smith and Capp, the medical Off
GERS of the prison. Professors Dickson, Biddle, and
Rand, and Drs w. II Parcoast and E Dyer Pro-
fessOr Rand chaTgeda powerful voltac battery, with
which TO make experiments.
| The eye was examined by Drs Dyer and Pan
coast with the opthalmC Sc pc, by the aid OF the
electric light and was afterwards removed and ex'
| ahmed. As was expected no Image was .ound on
tne lebna The lens Ol the rigut o. was upturned,
| The battery was next appl Ell, and the muscles OF
| the face made TO contract at the will of the ODe.
ratOrs giving rise TO every variety OF expression.
The muscles of other parts OF the body were SINH
! larry afec cd by the current and the arms and legs
The posi- mortem OF ta body win be made by Dr.
Pancoast before the class OF tne Jefferson Modca
cERTIBIcATE OF THE JURY.
We, the undersigned Juror, summoned by Henry
| c. Howell High sheriff OF the city and county o
Philadelphia, to witness the execution of ANTON
| PRoDsT first having been duy notified, do hereby
| certify that we were present, and saw the saiC
| Anton Probst executed Dv hapgIng by The neck
| in the yard, within the wa,is OF the Philadelphia
County Prison at 10 O'Clock and forty live minutes
| A. NJ, On Friday, the gltl cav of June, Ammo
| Domini one thousand eight hundred aud siXtv.s y
| 1861 In pursuance TO the Ac. of Assembly III such
| cases made and provided
| William II. Kern, II. Il. King. George H Roberts
| A. j. Flomerielt, ;. T. hancock, John Thorn ey
Spencer Roberts, William III lott, Hiram Horter
james N. Stokes, George Mcleod, A Taylor.
THE ADMIRABLE ARRANGEMENTS
for the execution practically illustrated in b
perfect performance OF all the detal Not the leas
fToube or dlscord occurred lie thanks of report
ers prese. are also duo Sheriff howeli, Tor tn
| excellent iacIhues afforded them.