The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-29
THE EXECUTION.


THE EXECUTION.
At five minutes to o'clock passage
was made through the crowd, and the
procession came in headed by Sheriff
Winslow. Adm, dressed in black cloth.
ing, with sack coat, limped in, holding
his hat in his hand and wearing faint
smile ON his newly shaven face. Ascend
ing the scaffold Adm sat down and the
Rev. L. Cooley read the psalm beginning,
"Have mercy upon me, o, God" He
then prayed, standing over the drop,
through which, so soon, Adin's life was
to fall Adm, meantime, sat back on the
platform with downcast eyes. Then
when the convict came forward and was
asked if he had anything to say, he
shook his head, and hardly moving his
lips said, Nothing" Just as he was
being pinioned an old friend of Adm
went up the steps and shook his hand
Then the handouts were placed on his
wrists, Adm himself assisting in arrang-
ing them. His arms and legs were then
bound and the moose adjusted by the
Sheriff. Adm stood with no movement
No word was spoken. Daylight forever
was shut out for him and he would never
speak again. Suddenly, with almost nc
warning Sheriff Winslow, touched the
trap, and the man dropped like a flash
The black cap slipped back and showed
the sickening sight of his protruding
tongue. There was no struggle, no move
ment whatever, and death was instan'
taneous, of broken neck. After hang
ing for several minutes, he was examined
by the physician and pronounced dead.
AFTER DEATH.
AS soon as the body had ceased swing
ing to and fro and the promiscuous crowd
had been driven from the yard, the black
hooded corpse was photographed. and
the physician watched his beating pulse
for fourteen minutes, when it was still
and after hanging twenty two minutes he
was pronounced dead, and the body was
let down and carried into room of the
station, where the post mortem examin
alton was held by Drs. Thayer, Capener
and others. The brain was first removed
and examined and pronounced perfect
in all respects. 1t weighed forty three
ounces, about an ordinary weight. BY
the action of the rope in stopping the
action of the blood, in passing through
the veins downward, and the heart fore
ing it up at the back part ofthe neck, the
head was filed with blood, and as soor
as the scalp was opened it flowed freely
DR.. Thayer said that he never saw bu
one head containing more blood, anc
that was case in which the man dice
Of apoplexy. The brain, after having
been removed and weighed, was taken
charge of by the physicians for future
use. The skull was reclosed and the
scalp sewed up. The body was also open
ed and examined, the physicians uniting
in saying that the man was sound in
every respect. The examination having
eeen completed, the body was redressed
and taken in charge by Undertaken Black
and removed to Woodland cemetery anc
buried.
The crowd that had collected abou
the prison yard remained till near foul
o'clock in the afternoon, when the body
was taken away. Many persons followed
the hearse until it reached Ontario street
when the driver whipped up his team
and escaped the gaze of throngs Of peo
pie.
Benton, whose wife had been one o
Adin's victims, staid till the last, watch
ing the proceedings calmly, and only
leaving when the doctors took the corpse
into their private charge.
A few days ago the following documen
was presented to Adm, which he signed
and in accordance with its signifcatior
post mortem washeld Immediately aftel
the body was taken down;
1t is my wish and desire that in the
event of my death, DR.. Gustav c. E
Weber, assisted by Drs. E. E. Riope
and Isaac N Hines, shall remove my
brain for their examination, with view
of ascertaining the condition thereof.
WILLIAM Adm,