Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-04
Tomorrow Night Fixed as the Time
for His Electrocution.
VISITORSNOTIFIED TO BE THERE
Eight Fatally Hurt in a Collision
at Bedford, Ind.
THE DAYS NEWS THE WORLD OVER
KEMMLER AGAIN FACES DEATH.
The Week in Which He is to be Electro.
cuted Has Come


cuted Has Come.
AUBURN, n. T., August 4-Fire alarms in this
pretty city are sounded by a huge. surly- toned
bell that hangs in the tower of the city hall.
The hours of the day and night are struck
upon the same bell, and its over
bearing cangor may be beard down
IN the prison basement where Kemmler
Is. IL the murderer heard the hour tolled at
midnight last night he knew that with the last
stroke OF u he had entered upon a fixed period
within which his life viii be ended He knew
that behind ar-by door, in dark and silent
room, the appliances for his taking of were
waiting his coming
And when should be that coming?
That he could not know. No person about
him knew. Perhaps even the man who holds
hemmler's life in his hands does not yet know
which OF the coming hours Of this week may
mark the end Of the fellows life. Indications
this morning are that such is the case.
MIR. Durston took his wife TO Syracuse last
night aud returned alone this morning. Dur
ing the forenoon he has been at the Osborne
House for the first time in several days He
Will not OF course make public his plans even
II they are matured; which they probably are
not. No one else dare speak if they know any
thing. which is not likely.
NO VISITORS YET.
The prominent men who it is believed will
attend the execution are not visible if they are
here. In the early hours this morning there
were rumors OF several coach loads of proml-
nent Witnesses TO be, which were said to have
gotten oil the New York Central main line at
Port byron to be driven to Auburn
And suppose they did? Nothing save as il
may indicate that kemmler is surely to be
kiiied lnis week and that the day is near. IL
there were such visitors to Auburn they have
not appeared In public places aud there is a
growing deposition among cIIlzens and corre-
spondents not TO care wheth they do or not.
hat matters 4. The hour, if IL comes will
find them here9
The highest authority today affirms that
kemmler Is not sick, insane or collapsed. He
slts and waits anu he does it with as much and
as little tfepidation OF a man of his mel nIai and
physical caIiber might be expected to experI-
ehce. lie Is IN SUSPENSE lso is every
one else). There's nothing else to do. Mean
tlme ruInors may multiply; thus far there
seems little reason to repeat them A man is
TO be executed The man vino decides when
has not spoken. The situation has the week
Tor It's boundary aud there ali there is OF It.
Ihe legal question cited ia these dispatches
last nlSht ls beng carefully thought about
mere, eoihe Win curious interest,", others with a
quiet purpose 10 reach IA conclusion. The ques-
tion seems very simple-is a form of sentence
vaiid which gives one man the power 10 make
IT imperative 10y delaying the execution of the
death penalty until the last day OF the desig-
mated seven. anu which, under general law, is
no day IN the eye OF the law.
TUESDAY NIdHT or WEDNESDAY MORNING.
BUFFALO. n. Y, August 4-Bufalo parties
invited TO witness the kemmler electrocution
Auburn have been notified TO be at the prison
by pm. Tuesday. August s. There appears
to be good reason to believe that VIM.
Memmler viii be electrScute q between o'clock
and and daylight " ednosdav morning.
nc hulders of the inv itations are yery secre-
tive ana state that no time or hour is named In
the invitation. A reporter was privileged TO
examine one of thses gruesome Invitations at
noon 1t was written IN typewrItIng on an Au-
burh PRISON letterhead ana invites Its recipient
to report at the prison lat pm. August g."
TO Charles K. Durston. warden and keeper"
ClstrIct Attorney Qulnby viii leave here to-
night. Whether the execution IL to take place
at night Is uncertain. but the conjecture is that
soon after the stroke Us midnight tomorrow
night hemnier will expiate his CRIME.
WHAT TIE ELKcTRIciAN SAYS.
ROCHESTER,. NY, August A reporter had
an interview with superintendent Barnes. the
electrician who has charge Of the Auburn
prison plant, Saturday night in relation to the
prospective execution OF Kemmler
DO You think the execution will be carriod
out?' said the reporter.
Il think it will" replied Mr.. Barnes.
do you expect that the apparatus viii
work etectually!"
"As an electrician have no doubt that il
will. No electrician who understands the sub
ject and knows what the apparatus is can
doubt that il viii kill him."
DO you think there will be any break of the
skin?"
We hope not II there should be the papers
would make such fuss over it, We think that
we have that provided against"
''You conducted the experiment at Auburn
some weeks ago when a calf was killed by the
dynamo?'
Yes, When we we're fixing the electrodes
on him he struggled and kicked and there was
All air OF wonder on his face. When we turned
on the current he died SO quick that NOT a
change took place in his features His ewes did
not close nor a muscle quiver, and 1 could
scarcely believe he was dead When we took
the current off he wilted as if every bone in his
! ody was broken"
Il suppose You and Durston are the only
ones who know the time of execution?"
I'VE are the only ones"
What time of day will the execution take
placer"
1t won't take place between in the morn
ing and at night"
will it be in the fore part of the week."
'Yes"
where does the man live who will finally
touch the button?"
HE lives In Auburn"
From another trustworthy source il was
learned that another experiment. in killing A
brute by eleetricity-this time ii is to be a
horse-is to be made by the superintendent and
the Auburn prison authorities before the exc
cution Of kemmler. Superintendent Barnes had
intended to start at noon today for Auburn to
superintend the execution of Kemmler. but
he received a telegram from Warden Durston
OF Auburn prison this morning notifying him
not to come. 1he warden did not offer any ex- |
plana ton OF this order but said he had written
o letter.
Two Schedules at Once.