The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-08-12

Auburn, n. Y, August 6.-Witl
a short, sharp shock, painless so far a.
the world will ever know, the soul o.
William Kemmler was separated from
his body at $40 o'clock this morning.
At 6:38 the door at the right of the
execution chair leading toward the ex.
ecution room opened, and Warden
Durston's figure appeared. Behind
him walked a spruce looking, broad
shouldered little man, full beard,
with carefully arranged hair cluster.
ing around his forehead. He was
dressed in q suit of new clothing, sack
coat and vest Of dark gray material,
trousers of mixed yellow pattern, a
white shirt, whose polished front was
exposed directly below little bow of
lawn of black and white pattern.
THIS WAS VIM. KEMMLER.
This was VIM. Kemmler, the man
who was about to undergo the SEN
tence of death. Behind him walked
DR.. w. E. Houghton and Chaplain
Yates. Kemmler was by far the
coolest man in the party. He did
not look about the room with any
special degree of interest. He hest.
tated as the door was closed behind
him and carefully locked by an at
tendant on the outside, as though he
did not know exactly what to do.
HADHI NERVE WITH HIM.
Kemmler sat down composedly,
looked about him and then up and
down without any evidence of fear or
special interest in the event. His
face was not stolid: it was Indifferent.
He looked if anything as if he was
rather pleased at being the center of
back of it, and almost at the moment
that Kemmler took his seat he began
to speak in short, quick periods.
"Now gentlemen" he said, "lhis is
William Kemmler. [ have warned
him that he has got to die, and if he
has anything to say he will say it. ]"
WISHED EVERYONE GOOD LUCK.
As the warden finished Kemmler
looked up and said in a high key of
voice, without any hesitation and as
though he had prepared himself with
the speech:
"Well, 1 wish everyone good luck
in this world and | think / am going
to a good place, and the papers have
saying a lot of stuff that is not go.
That's all / have to say"
HEwAs PREPARED.
With the conclusion of his speech
he turned his back on the jury, took
off his coat and handed it to the war.
den. This disclosed the fact that his
clothes had been cut from the band of |
his trousers down, 80 as to expose the
base of the spine for the application |
of the electrodes.
He sat down in the electric chair
Is quietly as if he was sitting down to
Inner.
When the straps had been adjusted
lbout the body and the arms were
as:ened down, the warden leaned
'ver and parted Reminders feet 90 as
o bring bis legs near the legs of the
hair.
KEMMLER IN NO HURRY. II
While the straps were being ar.
anged. Kemmler said to the warden |
nd his assistant: "Take your time. 9
'on't be in hurry. Be sure every. l
hing is all right"
When the straps had been adjusted I
, his body and limbs. the Warden a
laced his hand on Reminders head +
nd held it against the rubber cush- j
n which ran down the back of the v
,air. Kemmler's eyes were turned Z
ward the opposite side of the room. q
efore, they bad followed the warden a
his movements. Then the con- &
smned man made two or three re. n
arks in perfectly clear, composed "
ne of voice II
"Well 1 wish everybody good luck" n
Is one of them. Fl
"Durston. see that these things are 81
right" was another. d.
Hardly a min ute had elapsed since sc
e adjustment of the straps. There ~
Is no time for Kemmler to have K
even if his marvellous cour.
q had not been equal to the test of
rther delay. He was as calm in liz
e chair as he had been before he sh
tered the room and during the pro- ri
n Of his confinement by the straps f.