The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-18
A Remarkable Case.

A strange case is reported in letter
from Vienna. Months ago two women re-
turning from visit to Bosnia, where their
husbands are garrisoned, were murdered
in wood near Staab, In Hungary. The
murderers were arrested and could not
deny their crime, but they did not confess
the motive, which is unknown to this day.
One of the rufflans died in prison before
the sentence was spoken. The other was
sentenced to be hung. A week ago the
execution took place, ard as 1t was carried
out In public great crowds, eager for some-
thing uncommon, even at the risk of It be-
ing uncommonly horrible surrounded the
scaffold. The murderer's name was
Tabaks, and he belongs to the lowest class
of the county population. When the cord
was already round his neck he expressed
his desire of addressing the public, and
began saying with emphasis worthy of an
orator, " l die willingly but my dear la
dies and gentlemen - Here the execu-
tioner interposed and withdrew the trap
door, so that Tabaks died in the act of
speech, without knowing it, as it were,
and without struggle. The executioner
had been most earnestly entreated by
doctor of medicine, professor, to provide
him for once with warm corpse" To
comply with this wish he shortened the
legal "eight minutes " for which crim-
nal should hang to three, and handed the
corpse over TO a physician, who declared
Tabaks to entirely dead. The body was
spread upon the marble table in the anat-
omy room and professor and students pre-
pared for the dissection, which, had they
been in anything of hurry, might have
become vivisection. All of sudden the
body moved first its feet, and then its
hands, and at last trembled violently all
over. The professor did not lose his
presence of mind, but calmly sent to the
authorities to ask if Tabaks was to be re-
stored to life, or executed again before he
awake In the mean time he thought it his
duty as human being to do all he could
to restore the life which had so unexpected
ay shown itself. After an hours hard rub
bing and inhaling of salts, Tabaks was
sufficiently recovered to understand that
he had come to life this side of the Orcus,
mot the other side, as he at first believed.
lie swallowed pateful of soup, and then
fell prey to violent fever, while his neck
swelled in most alarming manner. This
was all we heard on the first day, besides
vague information as to the authorities
being uncertain whether the halfslain man
should not be hanged over again more
thoroughly. There was a universal outcry
against this 1t was said that Tabaks had
atoned far his crime by suffering what the
officers OF the law had declared to be
death. More cannot be exacted by the
law. No man may be killed twice. The
mans death, which took place exactly
twenty-four hours after his execution,
happily put an end to the controversy, and
pity for the sufferer was the universal feel
ing. He had raved during whole night,
had suffered the most horrible spasms, and
had SO often attacked his nurses that it
was found necessary to tie him to his bed.
The probable consequence will be the re-
moval of the executioner from his ugly
office. which he had discharged with so
little care.