Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-08-04


biIIty of PostpOnsment DIscusssd-Ths
wAldsn's Wife Leaves the Prison Until
After the Exscution-A Rumor That
An Injunction win be Served.
AUBURN, N. Y, Aug. 4.-No invita-
tions have been issued yet to the wit
nesses who are to attend the execution
of Kemmler, the murderer, and 80 there
can be no certainty about the date of
the execution except that it will be
later than tomorrow.
The law requires that three days no.
tice shall be given the witnesses. There
are indications that the invitations
will be issued this evening and that
the execution will take place Thursday.
All stories concerning the possibility
of postponement on account of the men
tai condition of the condemned man, or
| . possible injunction to be got out
against the Warden are of doubtful
| origin.
Warden Durston has returned from
| New York city. On the train with him
| were reporters from half dozen of the
| New York city papers but he vouoh-
safed no information to any of them.
He denied himself to visitors to-day.
1t is believed that the dynamo Is in
| working order and that there Is no
probability-hardly possibility-that
| the execution will not take place this
week.
Reporters on Hand.
The chief local interest in the event
| is taken by the swarm of reporters,
who have come here to pick up what
information is obtainable when it is
over. The Warden may admit two per-
sons connected with the press associa-
tions to witnesssthe execution. They
1 will n ma Of ha INT
none of the special representatives of
individual newspapers will be ad-
mitted to the Jail on that day. One
New York evening paper has a platform
| twenty feet from the ground on q tele-
graph pole directly across from the
prison. A long distance telephone
| wire will connect the watcher on the
York, He can see nothing though ex-
cept the bare walls of the prison. The
Western Union Company will open an
Office in the freight building of the
New York Central & Hudson River Rail
road directly opposite the prison ON
the morning of the day fixed for tho
execution.
ghe Warden's Wife Goes Away.
Mrs. Durston, the Warden's wife, who
first turned Kemmler's thoughts in the
direction of religion, left the city last
night for New York. She has been with
the condemned man every day almost
& warm interest in him. So great WIS
her sympathy that she did not think
she could endure the nervous strain
incident to the event of the week, and
she has gone away to remain until it
is all over.
Specializing ON the Execution.
| There is q curious feeling here among
those who have been interested in the
case from the beginning that the exc
cution will not take place. This feel
ing is doubtless due to the fact that
past. The Warden undoubtedly believes
that it will occur. He has made every
preparation, and unless something ex-
traordinary occurs he will put the SEN
tence into execution. There is thought
to be 9 possibility that the Wssting-
house Company will, at the last mo-
ment, be able to get an injunction
from one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court to prevent the use of the West
inghouse dynamo. The company has
made no move though, 80 far as is
known, and the opinion of eminent
lawyers Is that every legal remedy has
been exhausted, This or the question
of Reminders sanity is ali that could
possibly intervene to prevent the exc
1
who have come in contact with Kemm-
Ter officially of late are reticent, but
they do not seem to give much weight
: to the stories which have been sent
out, saying that Kemmler is gradually
losing his mind
Mysterious Visitors at the Prison.
About o'clock last night. as Officer
: Roseboom was patrolling his beat in
the northern part of the city, on State
street, the street in which the prison is
located, two hacks filled with men
passed HIM on the way toward the
j prison told him that these hacks let out
! crowd of men at the prison gates,
! who quickly walked in and were hidden
, from view behind the massive gray
walls of the prison.
The men were believed to be wit
|. nesses who had come secretly to Port
Byron, a station on the main line OF
the Central, on the Southwestern nmi-
ted, the train being stopped by special
arrangement.
= The time of arrival fitted excellently
with the arriving time of the South
western limited, and also chimed in
{ exactly with a rumor which prevails in
] the neighborhood of the prison that
Warden Durston, who in the absence OF
Prison Superintendent Lathrop has full
charge of the execution, was going to
try and give the boys a surprise.
One man living on a corner just
4 | opposite theprison, and known friend
f of some of the prison deputies, offered
{ in knowing way to bet $50 that the
( execution would not come off tomorrow
/ morning.