Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-07
a DETAILED ACCOUNT.
The story of the Awful Taking-OT in
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NY telegraph % tho DispS,chl
Armnv. \. Y. August C.-At 5 o'clock
This morning Landlord Gregory. of the
Osborne House holding 10 one hand list
no room numbers. stood iu his Office tap
ping the push-huttous that rang the cleo
tric lre-teIl in each of the rooms indicated
up0n hi- list. Ina then were sleeping the
persons Who had been summoned 10y the
prison warden 90 witness the death of muir
nerer William kemmler hy electricity. Al
most simultaneously porters were thump-
'rr 20 the rooms cOrrn- p0nUlng to the
numbers ou tho list. There was TO be no
u'-'1keahout the Efficacy Of Che summons,
ana there was not. Doctors and laymen
lurr.etiv dressed. ami while they did so
Che sun WAS having ITS bars Of light level
oyer the ciiy of Auburn. The SKY was
Clcuilc-- the alr COOL and slight breeze
-wayed the trer-fops. The men of the
press bad been Vgilaut. aud they, too,
r1me troopWg from their rooms 10 JOIN
Others 20 coffee andrulis before going 10 the
prison.
CUEsrs Or THE STATE.
In the pocket of each guest Of the State
was card bearing au order of admission
O. therrson, and before retiring each had
been privately warned % present himself
this morning. Some were there az the
luur named Others were not, and War
Don nur.tOu. under evident nervous ten
SON. was pacing the halls and peering often
aHi aux.uuslv down % the big iron gate at
tle entrance impatient Of the delay.
TIE STATED HOUR.
The stated hour had expired. and II was
fifteen minutes more before DIR. Spitzka
arrived. with ceseof instruments IN hand.
Urs Shrady and jenkins, of New York,
were vet missing. They were yet AT the
hotel table. At Z o'clock 100 cOnylcts would
De marched out from the mcss-roOm 10 the
shops. and then the betting to operate the
DYNAMO away down IN the loft of the
uafble-shop could not he nun on without
tle prisoners knowing that kemmler was
about die. No one could tell what spirit
might be developed by the stripe-clothed
With such knowledge forced upon them.
2 be Agent aud Warden, therefore, grew
momcntarily more impatient. He would
have the execution all over, II possible,
before the men we're aStir III the shops.
I'M WARDEN WAITS no LONGER.
Gentlemen, ] will not wait any longer
for those who are not here" he exclaimed
90 length. after peeripg the last time down
u the iron gate. This affair cannot be
made subject 90 personal convenience; and
I think II unfair 20 me that ! should have
been kept waiting until this hour"
The big clock in the main hall then
marked twenty-three minutes after o
o'clock. Only ihirty-seyen minutes were
loft IN which 10 take Reminders lie before
he conyicts would be released 10 work.
Acquiescing and silently, those awaiting
IN the cool, breezy hall gathered about the
Warden, who led the way to the rear hall.
where a guard with a great key stood to
open and close the door to tho basement
region OF the prison.
THE CHAMBER OF DEATH.
The huge, iron-bolted barrier swung
back, the Warden led the way. aud the 81
lent party descended an iron stairway TO a
stone-hoofed hall where the fatal appara-
tus and its FIRST subject We're waiting.
The way lay through the lower doorway
in the massive basement wall INTO a room
dimly lighted as yet by the early sunshine.
In the semi gloom the massive chair OF
death seemed 10 loom out Of the shadows q
little distance from the entrance. As each
guest passed II he might have noted that
every strap and every buckle to bind the
victim was carefully placed to avoid all
possible delay. The eleclYode for the bead
hung in its place like the sprinkler disc
for q shower-bath. Chairs and benches
stood about the room IN seini-circle. In
the uncertain hight Of the fstefl room
they formed horseshoe IN whose opening
ssood the heavy chair with IT, dangling