Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1890-08-10
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DocrORs DIsAGREE
kemmler Stricken Unconscious But n,
Dead by the First Discharge.

Dead by the First Discharge.
AUBURN, Aug. The doctors In
general declared that the man, from
the very first contact. wa beyond con.
sciOusne,s and some thought the
action which startled aud sent the
warden swsy with whit. lace TO order
the current renewed WAS only reflex
muscular action, Not SO with one
physician who declared that he could
stake his name that he could bring
KemP'ler hack to conscious life with,
brandy hbpoderD.ics. Meantime, one
Of the witnesses, Mr.. q. q. BAN, Il
Washington. ID. &. had faiuted and
lay upon bench, where he was being
famed, When finally the electric
ms.k was removed Kemmler's eyes
were nslf cp.n and without the CLASSY
stare common 10 eyes iD death. The
lids were lifted aud test of the pupils
with bright lights were made. There
WAS no contraction Of The pupils.
Where the max bad pressed the fore.
head there was livid mark, the
mark OF the laws righteous desecfa
tion. Tue NOSE In the region of its
base WAS of deeply livid hue. Pur-
pie spots s@n began mottling the
hands. arms snd neck. The doctors
said he WAS surely dead. One # The
Buffalo doctors, seven minutes after
thu straps were renovs d. cut the skin
n the temple for a microscopic speci-
men of the dead mans blood. IL was
immedisiely examined and found
slightly coseulsted. Doctors Mac
Donald and Shrady examined the
head. They found there WAS 9 deep
circular imprint Oh the top of the head
made by the sharp pressure of the elsc
trods's rim. Tho SPIT where iuft Of
Kemm,e,'s hair had been cut off just
before death. was found 20 constitute
no more than oue.third Of the area
# contact with the electrode. and
close examination disclosed thst the
edge # the copper within the elecsrode
had slightly burned the scalp Just
where the hair had beon cut. Had
NOT Kemmler's de- sire to avoid dfsfig-
urement by the cutting Of his hair
prevailed, the contact would have
been more perfect. the chances OF In"
death would have been
grea .er. and probably the disigure.
ment which he dreaded would have
been avoided.
As to the causes # the failure to
kill Kemmler instantly, there 10 said
by all physicians to be 10 doubt that
Consciousness ws- stricken instantly
from his brain. The fact that be wa~
not instantly killed IL the result Of
improper contact or Of Insufficient
voltage or pressure. The contact Ger.
tainly was not perfect Ut the head, r.
two.thirds of the contact was uron
the mans thick, smoothly brushed
hair, the clipped spot being one third
the size of the electrodes diameter.
Warden DuIston says 100 vol's, or
the pressure of the current, was fist
applied to Kemmler. When question.
ed by an Associated Press correspon.
dent II twenty incandesceut lamps on
the circuit TO indicate the pressure Of
the current wers burning when the
bolt was discharged into the murder.
er. he stated that II they were they
should not have been. The moment
before switching the current into
Kemmler the test lamps should have
been cut out. Each lamp consumes
about fifty volts, hence the twenty
took 1000 volts at once out Of the
current sent to Kemnler. That LEFT
100 to cause death. The best author.
tiles state that Is per cent. OF current
fs storped at the points Of contact,
and that IS 10 thus expended In the
body. Eightfve per cent. of the 700
volts not consumed to-day by the test
lamps Is sos volts Of pressure. This 10
not enough 10 surely kill . man In.
staDtly with good contact, and that Of
yesterday was not perfect.