, 1890-08-07
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Tho Apparatus Wns Not Working
Properly Mt tho Time.

The Apparntu. wns Not workinr
Properly Mt tho Time.
| Kemmior Ind .,o,a ,o,c,e,,liv m sleep
in the nipbt and boa slont soundlv. and
,cos snorino untu 4 ,,,ciocLx when bo
was awakened bv ono of his vunrds
| Pastor Uonohtor md prison Chnniain
Yates were with him. They read to
him from, the Riblc ond no prnved with
| than. Ue dre.aod hiuself with
out mid I'm n auit of erov mixed
goods. his hnir no oombed and
brushed with great caro-. His shoes were
we'll polished. and while he made him
self 6naIlv tidv tho warden and n tall
a, ronger n den,,tv oorsbal from Buffalo
entored Tho oeiI The warden exnlained
| 10 Kemmlor lin, ha n,ust bave the ton
of lilo head .haved Tbo prisoner d.
murred. He mad taken great pains in
drossi,, his hair and hesiJes os be ex-
nlained To the yar,len. he did not want
| IN pe disdcured. Kemmler's hair
waa dsrk brown and wayv with
1tynar;o, o,r, ,hat Tsl on
nis fosshood os th,s he was nroud
t., ,h. shodo., -, daa,h his voni,v as-
.o.'aJ ,,sais ri. sat. howoyar u,as
on, b,t ,ha =, rl was soved Tho sbaven
sno, wos az hv IL irches in sizc and
aa no, shavov hr, cronnod fairly
-
,vt,,o ,h,s ,,s uuooood;rc Tho wit
,,ssas oan,i,.d d., choir Of death
Tho ha,, 80 r,,,, dyna,,o aud The
,,,.,,d..aa,', g., ,n. q, ,Lo or,.-
"han,ho. aio,,aa ,a,n,iy Tho c,rron,
49, s,ran,a ,,a,yor ,,os conrsinr
10 ,iro,,,,
..,rhaa,.ido,,. i ,,o h,, how c..h,v
49,, -, - M, aI,,n,ad n- NJ,
..,,, .. 80, 49,, ,,,, o,
~, ,h 49,, W - 80 80
a." ,'',,a.,', ,.n''.'a -, 80 La.,, a.
'"o "o'a", ""'uen uoo w 10
secret inVioiate' ana In response 10 Dr'
MacDonald's comment Electrician
thing wrong about the machinery down
there rererrin,, m tho dvn,mo and of
- ~, w ''s ~
lhe circuit ihis remark 'ooh place. oe-
lore 'he eiectriz'hg' IL was uhuouoeeuiy
as true lew minutes later when the
bolt was applied to KemnIer,
The condemned man, after having the
| hair cut from the top of his head, lis
tened to the reading of the death war
ront hv tho wordon
ran, W 'uo "uiue".
"hcn .he current was nrs' 'urneu On,
the ieas. unhappy 1ia @ al IN 'ne ne. room was :
DIR. South wick, OF Buffalo, the father OF
electrocution. working upon the subject
since 1851 sprhcre - he explaineu. as
ha s,rodo owoy fro,, tho chair 10 a trot
nc y s',e """y I'm ~. a.
OF Witnesses ut 'he o'ner eha oi 'pe
room, there Is the cuimination VI ten
years work and study. We live in
higher civilization from this day."
Ru, even while ma snoka n oujck
/
snaip cry Went up npn y
ciose'y "a'chilie "oou' 'no siie"' heuie
| in the chair lhere hhd been a move
ment in the breast of the man who,
| all believed, had died one minute and
forty seven seconds before.
second eIectrocution followed. The
| doctors in general declared that the
man. from the yery first contact,
was beyond consciousness and
some thought that the action
which startled all and sent the
warden AWAY with a white face to order
the current renewed was onIv retIex
,n,,.cnlar ,n action Not So one nbvsician
who DECLARED that he would stake his
name thot nc couId hiring KemmIer hack
| to consoiousness and life with brandy
and hvpodermics.
Neant,me one of the witnesses MI. q
| q Rain Of Wasbinyton ID e. had
/ faiutpd. and ay q bench.
where he was being famed.
| When finally the electric mask was
removed Kemmler's ewes were found
| half omen and without that CLASSY atare
comn,nn 10 ewes i'm death The lids
were lifted nnd tests of the pupils with
bright LIGHT were made. There was no
contr,c,ion of the nunils Where the
mask had pressed the forehead there
was n liyid mark-tbe mark of the
| lnvis righteous desecration- The nose
/ onJ reginn Of its hasa was of a deeniy
| iivid bne and purnIe spots soon beaon
nottlinp the hands. limbs and neck.
| The doctors snid he was surely lead
one of the Buffalo doctors. seven min
utes after the strnps were removed cut
the akin at the TEMPLE for n microsconic
snecimrn of the dead mans blood. II
was Immediately examined. and was
| fon nd To he sliyhilv coavulated.
On lie eleetrode being Withdrawn
from contact with the body IL adhered
10 the rim of the upper disc. Doctors
Macdonald and shrady examined the
head. They found thai there was deep
circular imprint on the top of the head
made by the sharp uressnre of the elec
trode THE snot where a tuft of Kern.
mler's hair had been emf off iust before
daat th wns fonnd IN consti.ute not more
,han one.third Of the area of contact
With tbe eIectrode
ond n close eyaninat;on discIossa that
,ho edye of the conner uitbin the elec-
,rode Rad slightIv bnrned tbe scaIn inst
,,Iara Ills hair hsd haen cut
Had not KemmIers desire To avoid
d;aGauremert bv the cntting oil Of nil
his bair prevailed the contact would