Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-09-09

The first operation Of the medical
gentlemen was to bare Skagg's
breast, and the next to make the
connection between the battery and
the body by the oles and wires.
a CoLLoQUY.
Sheriff objecting-You will i'm
plicate me.
DIR. McDonald--I will stand in
your shoes for everything that can
be done.
Sheriff still manifests his object
ion.
DR.. McD.-You have no control
over this.
Sheriff-Yes, l have.
DR.. Jackson commenced to turn
the crank of the battery to send the
electric current into the body.
Sheriff alarmed, said that Skaggs
had to die.
DR.. J. expostulated that there was
no harm.
Sheriff-My orders were to hang
him till he was dead, and / want
everybody to know that / do not
encourage this matter. 1t may bring
him to. 100000 oo-o." A CHASTITY
noise like q gasp, issued from the
mouth of the man, and those of the
country people who are superstitious
are terribly frightened. Skaggs fing-
ers begin to twich.
Sheritf-If you have any respect
for me, DR.. Mcdonald, / ask you to
stop.
DIR. Med. said he had every re-
spect for the Sheriff and that it was
right to 90 on.
Sheriff-Well, you dare not do
it.
DIR. Mod you think we would
swear to lie?
Sheriff Stupit. The medical men
desist.
After further conversation
DR.. McD-You are charging US
with swearing false.
DR.. J.-W ell. that man can be
brought to.
Rev. W. ". Norman protested
against the attempt. aud said he
W uld hold the gentlemen response
BILE for it.
Sheriff. do too.
Some Of the guards profered their
assistance.
Voices-Fetc3 him back and hang
him again.
Such proposition is repugnant
to the Sheriff. All this time there
is great excitement. and the Sheriff
is perplexed because he does not
know the legal view which might be
taken of the matter.
DIR. j. said he could bring the
man to life in half an hour.
A voice--M hats the law on the
subject?
Sheriff, taking common sense
view of the matter-My orders are
to hang him until he is dead, flo the
Doctor, you should have told me
this before Another gasp from the
body.
Sheriff-TT'Le 9 intention of the law
is TO hang him till dead, dead,
dead.
DR.. McD AS a m utter of course.
Sheriff-When the law says dead,
it means dead in the strictest sense
of the word.
The medical gentlemen contended
that there was not a sign of life
when Saggs was taken down.
4 Voice--"Dead is dead, and life
is life; if he can live again he was
not dead"
After operations had been sus-
pended about ten minutes, the Sher
iff proposed TO allow the doctors to
proceed. He said he would not
nlng SkaggI again until further or
ders.
DIR. :. I will he-respons.ble.
DIR. McD.--I will swear by God
and Heaven. and Christ, and every
thing in Heaven, there was not a
visible sim OF life in him He is
dead, dead, and you depend upon
the men you have selected foi the
purpose of deciding il.
A person suggested that the doc
tors did not examine whether
Skaggs' heart beat when he was
taken down, and that the pulsation
of the wrist was not correct test
at all.
Other persons said DIR. Jackson
was deceived.
Sheriff. have done my duty.
DIR. JacksoE-You can resuscitate
q man an hour and a half after, il
his neck is not broken.
Medical men, after an interval, re-
sumo operations.
After few minutes the Sheriff
again interfered.
FURTHER CoLLoQUY
An inquiry was made of DIR. Nc
Donald if Skaggs' friends had re-
quested him and DR.. Jackson to
resucitate him, if possible.
DIR McDonald-His friends asked
H. Jo,I-cAn