The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-28
TO Be KILLED BY WIRE
Nov Justice viii Get Even With hur.
derSr Kemmler.
he Has but a Few Hours to but
Ne Does Not Know the Day
OF Execution-The Chair
OF Death.


h. the frat man executed by electricity.
rrhe case made its tour of the c jurts OF
his state resulting ia the confirmation OF
the original sentence. There Is now no
hong for the doomed man, and he will lie
put 10 death in the prison i'm this city by
Inc application of clectricity. in some day
of The week commencing at midnight OF
April u. According 10 the new law In
his state the day and our oil execution
will he selected by the warden oil the
p1son.
Kemmler is an u~neducated and denscIy
stupid man. u owing To ms ignorance,
has no fear except that he may suiier Tor
a moment. When he wa hrst received
nj the prison he could neither read nor
write-in fact, his ignorance OF common
things was something astonishing but
Mrs, Durston. the warden's wife has
acted as a missionary in so successful n
manner that Kcmmlcr can now sign his
name with n pen In plain, bold letters.
Hc can read, also. hut very slowly, being
obliged to spell out the words as he goes
along.
The electrical apparatus at the prison
rs ali ready for the execution. Ii was pur-
chased and set up in the prison under the
Direction Of Harold Il. Brown of New
York, an electrical expert employed by
The state 10 do his work, The apparatus
was tested several months Y when a
horse ana "a ear were Iu' 70 uea." WIN
IL. In each case dea,h was ils.altaieous
and the experts who madet the test are
confident that Kemmler will he killed
neatly, and that he will suffer very little.
The principal part OF the apparatus, the
machines Tor the gchcratlon Oh .he cur,
rent, were secured a eoou Whiie ago' anu
have been iaid away waning ior 'ne tinle
to come 10 use them. They are ordinary
Westinghouse dynanos for the generation
al Alternating currents, which Expert
inents upon dogs ana o,hcr animals nave
shown 10 be pec,iiiariy ucaui! ~ .ieir
elect. frobaply u 'he uyIiaiios hau not
bfen secured q goou Wills t,erc
would have been some uimichi,y aDout
getting them AT all, Tor ,he WesuliRnousc
company That makes thein IL p',eriy OBJ
posed To Their being useu ior sucn a pur-
pose, ana said when " was hrst an,
nounced that the Alternating current a
been decided upon Tor use ~ ~eNecuuo,is
That u would sell no macnihes 70 tne
state. but the uyiianhos iian Already oet'h
secured.
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