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ONE OF THE PROPOSED METHODS.
The accompanying cut will carry an
idea of how DR.. Bleyer proposes to use
the current. A sort of hut is built, and
the condemned is placed therein and
maintained in an erect position with
spring locks, which are placed about his
arms, legs and neck. The floor of this
hut or box is of metal and connected
with its under surface is one pole of
battery. Coming in through the roof is
the second electrode, the point of which
is to be pressed against the crown of the
condemned mans head. The current.
the doctor recommends, should be fur
nished by connecting electric wires
through the city's streets.
These might be laid to the place as
signed for executions, being so con-
cealed and guarded as to be inaccessible
to the condemned criminal or his
friends, and otherwise protected against
accident"
DR.. Bleyer's suggestion is, in the
opinion of practical electricians, alto
gether impracticable. 1t would require
a most intricate and possibly cruel
apparatus to prevent man from turn
ing his head or twisting it so as to keep
the electrOde from touching him, or, if
lie Is nelQ III place by NUMBER or sup
ports, he could lift his feet from the
floor and delay death until his strength
became exhausted. In either event his
agony would be prolonged. Nearly
every other suggestion made contained
fatal faults. Not device has yet been
offered which will do the terrible work
effectively and without ever making
miss. No practical demonstration can
be made on human beings, and the eX-
periments tried upon the lower animals
have been too few to reduce the problem
to an exact condition. The World to-
day gives the most perfect device yet
suggested, and one which has fewer
flaws in it than any of the theoretical
ideas thus far advanced.
MIR. EDISON'S VIEWS.
"How quickly will electricity kill a
man?' Mr.. Edison was asked.
I'm an incalculabIe space of time"
replied the wizard. "An electric light
current will kill regiment in the ten
thousandth part of second"
''Of the various plans that have come
up since the new law abolishing hanging
was made, which do you look upon as
the best?"
Mr.. Edison's reply was to pick up
piece of paper, and quickly trace
upon it two hands menacled, with
a chain attached to each manacle.
"The condemned could be hand
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deadly current passed through his body.
There was quick contortion, a smotil-
cred yelp and the little cur dog fell as
dead as door nail.
The execution had occupied less than
two seconds: The splashing of the
water had spoiled the insulation or
death would have been instantaneous.
Immediately following the killing of the
dog one of the wires of the dynamo
burned out and the current was inter-
rupted. Exactly one minute after the
fatal shock had been given blood began
to gush from the ears and nose of the
dead dog.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Here were two circumstances to-
gether that could occnr at the execution
OF any human being. One OF them is
almost certain to take place, making a
Sickening spectacle.to say the least. The
flow of blood from the ears Indicated
that the shock to the nerve centers had
produced cerebral congestion and the
rupture of a blood vessel. The same re-
suit would follow in the legal killing of
man by the electrical current. A force
of 1000 volts would in nine cases out of
ten cause such violent cerebral dis
turbance that the blood would guSh
from the ears, the same as in the case of
one of the lower animals. This would
be the spectacle that would be more re-
Voting than any OF the attendant scenes
at properly conducted hanging.
The second circumstance is the fact
that, even with extreme care and thor
ough knowledge of how to produce and
control the power of electricity, it is
possible to have such an interference,
with adeplorable result. The splashing
of the water in the case of the dog and
the breaking of the perfect insulation
was not foreSeen any more than the
sudden burning out of one of the wires
and the interruption of the cur
rent, which could occur perhaps
just at the critical moment in the
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made forbade taking the stableman into
any condolences, and when he opened
the door in the morning two of the con-
demned, anticipating the action, made a
wild dash for liberty and made their es-
cape. The third unfortunate had been
so securely bound that he could not
break his bonds, and after several fran
tic struggles, calmly settled down to
await his doom. Shortly after 10 o'clock
he was delivered over to the Worlds
ambassador, forced with some difficulty
into a carriage, and the kidnaper-
driver, cracking his whip, started on a
gallOp for the spot where the execution
was to take place.
PREPARING THE DYNAMO.
A delay of three hours ensued. Messrs.
Batcheller and Kennedy, who had been
directed by Mr.. Edison to take charge of
the killing, were anxious that it should
be a complete success. They were not
satisfied to try the experiment with the
dynamo they had first selected, because,
while of 100 volts power, it is not of the
power which is proposed to be used in
legal executions. Five men were set to
work, and by 3 o'clock a dynamo capa-
Bile of creating an alternating current of
between 1,500 and 1000 volts was in DO
sition, and half an hour later every
thing was ready. A small stand, con-
.aining six incandescent lights, was
then placed Oh the ground outside the
dynamo room and connected with the
powerful dynamo engine inside to
test the power of the current. A
lever was pushed over and the
wires in the glass globes began
to glow with scintillating light. As
the power increased the alternating
flash and darkness grew less distinct,
until at last the pulSationS became so
rapid as to appear like steady, I'M
broken glow. The test being pro-
nounced satisfactory, long board was
placed on the ground, and on top of that
q sheet of tin, to one corner of which
tive pole of the battery. In front of
this sheet of tin, but not touching it, a
metal pan filled with water was put. 1t
was Insulated by resting on two strips
of rubber, and was connected with the
positive pole by wire attached to the
bale. Are you ready?" asked Mr..
Batcheller. ''Ready," replied Mr. Ken
nelly, as he tied a rope around the neck
of the condemned and dragged him to-
wards the board, ''Then lead the victim
to the drink of dcathw
AN UNWILLING VICTIM.
This sounded well, but was not so
easily accomplished. The dull whirring
of the terrible machine inside and the
crowd that was drawing closer together
seemed to greatly agitate the poor cul-
prit. lie looked appealingly from one
face to another and turned his eyes to
the eXecutioner. Then he made a des-
perate effort to escape. The cord about
his neck snapped in the struggle and
he was almost off when the kidnaper
seized him and put another stronger
rope about his throat. Mr.. Kennedy,
fuding that it was impossible to make
the victim voluntarily seek his own de-
struction, incontinently dragged him
upon the tin plate. Another leap for
liberty was made, but this time the ter
rilied creature became his own execu-
toner. One foot touched the water in
.he pan. Instantly the circuit was
closed and the whole force of the
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n. j., and was witnessed by about
twenty persons. The legislature that
agreed that it was better to shock a
criminal to death than to strangle him
accepted the report of the commission
appointed to investigate the subject as
d finality, and was satisfied, as
was the governor of the state
when he signed the bill to
accept electricity as the means, without
any definite or exact understanding of
its application as a taker of life. The
law provides that capital punishment
after Jan. l next shall be in secret
and by au electric current, but no pro-
vision is made as to how that current
sqall be applied, nor has any device
been offered to the state which is known
to be thoroughly certain in its result.
The execution which took place at Mr..
EdiSOn'S laboratory under the direction
OF the World demonstrated two things,
which do not seem thus far to have en-
tered into the calculations of the up
holders and supporters of the new
law, viz: that an execution by cleo
tricity can become a more hideOuS spec
tacle than an execution by hanging, and,
secondly, that there is a greater posi-
bility of blunder than where the hang
mans moose is the agent of legal re-
venge. The impossibility of securing
victim in the city of New York willing
to become a martyr to science forced
visit to that part of the state of New
Jersey in the immediate vicinity of Mr..
EdisOn's big factory. Arrangements
had already been made with him for the
experiment, and on Wednesday after
noon Supt. Batcheller and Electrician
Kennedy began preparations for the
event. which was fixed for the following
day at high noon. 1t was not only the
difficulty in securing victim in New
York, but the attention that would be
attracted in the Journey to the place of
execution through the goSSipy town of
Orange that led to the determination to
seek for the offering in that neighbor-
hood. Late on Wednesday afternoon
an agreement was made with stern
visaged Orangeman to furnish three
victims for the electrical sacrifice. 1t
was tacitly understood that, as martyrs
in Orange were as scarce as in New
York, force would have to be used to
accomplish the object. Not to mince
matters, and to put it in plain English,
the man of stern viSage agreed to be-
come kidnaper, and in consideration
of certain sum of money to deliver
over on the morning of Thursday three
living, breathing organisms to be done
to death by the newest method devised
by the state of New York.
The preliminary part of this agree
ment was fulfilled. After half a nights
stealthy skulking in the shadows the
capture was made. and the victims
locked up in convenient stable. The
secrecy with which the hunt had been
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ONLY A PARTIAL SHOCK.

execution of human being. While it
is not contemplated that a man would
be driven like dog to drink and die,
the same result, the same Interruption
could ensue, no matter what other de-
vice was employed, in the transmission
of the current.
The report of the committee appointed
by the Medico-Legal society on 1.-The
Best Methods of Executing Criminals
selects electricity as the most efficacious
and most humane method. No recon-
mendation of any particular form or APP
plication is given. however. The feast
bility of poisoning or smothering crimi-
mails to death is discussed. and the con-
clusion is reached that these methods
are barbarous, and that electricity is the
superior method. The committee stop
at that point, but one of it's members,
DR.. j. Mount Bleyer. discusses the ques-
ton as an individual and suggests a
method.
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Foreign Notes of Real Interest.
The profession of dinner tasting has
been revived in Paris with some sue
cess.
The latest Maxim gun fires three
pound shots at the rate of sixty to the
minute.
Fourteen coaches were all at ap-
peared for the parade of the London
Four-in-Hand club on June 80.
The aggregate amount of prizes to be
given at the Wimbledon rifle meeting
this year (the LAST amounts to $4,000.
Prince Jerome Napoleon and his son,
Victor, have been reconciled. They
will have meeting with the Empress
Eugene very soon.
The British navy beats the world.
The Severn lately fired torpedo which
struck and sunk the admiralty yacht,
the Fire Queen.
Mounet-Sully will create the role of
Mahomet in new play recently &C
cepted unanimously by the French the
alter, by Henri de Bornier.
AT dinner given by the Baroness de
Reuter- at Richmond, at the Star and
Garter, lover seventy poker players sat
down together afterward."
Johann Strauss will stop writing
waltzes or even operettas and devote
himself to writing grand operas. Kali
beck, of Vienna, has furnished him
with his first libretto.
While in mourning for Frederic LII.
London gayety went on in black and
white robes and ''magpie'' dinners, and
''magpie" dances, as they are called.
were just as gay as though they were
birds of paradise.
Those who advertise in Sundays GLOBE
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A radical change has come over life
at Long Branch within the last few
years, and most of the people who go
there now go to gamble, and sporting
men can be found there from every
quarter of the Union. Almost every
night men lose $1,000 and sometimes
great deal more. and nothing is thought
OF 1T. 1t was not on account of the
amount that he lost and won that young
Ed WolcOtt, the Colorado statesman,
created such sensation both at Long
Branch and here in New York this
week. 1t was principally on account of
his prominence and the fact generally
being conceded that he will be the next
United States senator from his state.
But among the sporting fraternity he
is regarded as a man of
WONDERFUL NERVE.
Since the death of one of the Worm
ser brothers, of the Wall street banking
firm who one night wonS17 900 at Penn
Sylvania club while waiting for
waiter to bring him sandwich, no
player has been seen at the Branch
who has frightened the proprietors of
the gambling houses SO thoroughly as
the brilliant young Wolcott. Upon the
first night of his arrival he won $4,000,
and the next night he lost So, 200 at a
rival establishment. He did not spend
over two hours at the faro table either
during the time he lost or won. The
usual limit is S100,bu the highest
the young Westerner was given
at the establishment where he'waS for
tunate was 5000. But at the other es-
Enlistment they were more accOmmo-
dating, and the limit was raised to
thousand. 1t is such players as he that
break the banks, and the gamblers at
Long Branch would like to see Mr..
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cuffed in his CELL" said Mr.. Edison,
land walked out, followed by the sheriff
and those persons that the law says
shall witness the execution. Attach
each of these chains to the respective
poles of the battery. When the time
comes touch button. close the circuit,
and" swapping his finger. sit is over.
The current, which should come from
an alternating machine, a machine that
gives series of rapid shocks, passes up
one arm. through the heart and lungs,
as well as the base of the brain, and
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Wolcott return to his Western home.
A Kansas City real estate operator has
been livening things up as WE'LL Dur
ing the week that he has been at the
Branch he is something like
$4,000 AHEAD,
and he says he is either going to lose all
he has got with him or he will not stop
until he is winner of 100000. A Texas
ranch owner who is there has not been
so fortunate, and he is already out over
$4,000.
Three of the greatest gamblers in this
country, if not in the world, are now at
Long Branch. First is the notorious
Billy DeutSch, known on both sides of
| the water as the Prince of Baccarat,
who broke the bank at Monte Carlo and
another one in Paris five years ago and
came out winner 100000 francs. Since
then Deutsch has not played much.
and has confined his gambling to Wall
street. But there are lots of men in
Long Branch who are willing to back
him if he wants to try his luck, and if
he once gets started he will make long
howl among the gamblers. The second
is Dan Rice, the once famous clown.
Rice has not done much playing since
he has been at the Branch, nor has he
for many years, principally because he
has had no money, but he now has
WIZ WIN 10 WI III ONCl q WHO
is with him. Rice has been trying to
persuade her to allow him to
TRY HIS LUCK
for the sake of auld lang syne. In his
day he was the greatest gambler in the
country, as he was the greatest show
man. Isaw him sitting in the magnifi-
cent Long Branch club at supper-a
meal, by the way, that alone would
make the club famOus-and he was in.
dulging in "reminiscences of some of his
big games. Just before the war, in
New Orleans, he put up half inter-
est in his circus against one of the finest
of the Mississippi steamboats, of that
day and 100000. He lost. Then he
bet the other half of his circus against
the one lost and he won. Rice might
have been where Barnum is to-day had
it not been for gambling, and even the
gamblers tell that they hope he will not
begin again. The third is Pat Sheedy.
Sheedy is known among gamblers as
man who, when he gets broke, would
take off his clothes and bet them. Just
before he became the manager of Sulli-
van he hadn't dollar, although little
while before he was one of the wealth.
est sporting men in Chicago. The last
big game that Sheedy was in he played
for fifty hours without closing his eyes.
He left the gaming table $4,000 loser.
The brokers on Wall street are trying
to make up for dull times by going to
Long Branch. Their favorite game is
roulette, as it is with the majority of
people at that gay resort.
The old Endicott pear tree, brought
from England and planted by Gov.
John EndicOtt on his farm at Danvers-
port, then Salem, Mass, some time pre-
vious to 1884, is still living.
The first wheat to be carried to the
Vincennes market was from the farm
of Louis Doll, Allison township, Law
renee county, Ind. The opening price
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resorts in Europe where gambling
formed a popular prominent feature,
and he says none of them come up to
the resort on the Jersey coast. He says
that there are larger sums won and lost
in night at Long Branch than there
are at Monte Carlo in a week.
Persons like August Belmont, John
Hoey and Capt. William M. Connor, who
have been all over Europe, say that
there is nothing on the other side of the
water that will compare in magnificence
with the new Long Branch gambling
club that has just been opened. The
rotunda where most of the gambling
tables are situated is capable of holding
1000 people, and the finishing of this
room alone cost over 100000. Each
chair cost over 500, and the center
chandelier cost over $4,000. The cell
ing is divided off into large panels, and
the panels contain paintings of all the
great European
RACING EVENTS
in which American horses were the
winners. There is another club house
fully as large as this one, and which
cost nearly as much money.
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GAMBLING BY The SEA.
Biggest Betting in the World at Long
Branch.
THREE GREAT GAMBLERS.
Some of the High Rollers Who Strike
the Dashing Hazard---Gains
and Losses.


ONG BRANCH has
become the biggest
gambling resort in the
world. Cierical-lOOk-
ing Pat Sheedy, late
manager of John l..
Sullivan, who is re-
garded by the sport
ing fraternity as one
of the most talented
gamblers in the world,
has recently returned
from q tnur of all the
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WORSE THAN HANGING
Electrical Executions Cover
Their Victims With
Blood.
No Absolutely Sure Method Of
Applying the Current
Yet Found.
Edison Claims to Have In
vented a Machine for
the Purpose.
The New York Legislature
Seems to Have Acted
Rather Hastily.
z - n DFTERNTNE

" DE Term
the best method of
killing murderers
under the new
law, which sub
|StituteS electric
ity for hanging,
an execution was
quietly conducted
Thursday by the
World at the
| a b orat tory of
Thomas A. Edi-
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7boeo who advertise i'll Sundays GLOBE
'Hooe say it pays the best.
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and exact reproduction of nature; this style
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U1O-A LOVERS KNOT, EACH ALTER
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weigh over 12-carat, and are fine stones
number of solitaire sets, set on round wire,
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.DHtC in shape of the figure 8, mounted
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WATCHES.

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.DfO let set on parallel knife-edge bars,
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C7H-A SPRAY OF LILIES OF THE
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-03-06
Served ErsapsSs e.;~ht

A man came into Fresno CITY,
CAL, the other day, and said that
he was canvassing for the Pacific
Coast Commercial Record, and
wanted advertisements and sub
script.ons. In short time he
picked up about $500 and lit out.
There is no such paper as the one
he claimed to be agent for, and the
flats lost their money. It served
them right. They were probably
that sort OF idiots who are always
paying money out to almost any
sort OF sheet except those pub
lished in their own town.