The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-16
FEAR ELECfkOCU TON.
Some Condemned New York Murderer
Who Arc Frantic.

some condemned new Mufuerer8
Who Are Frantic.
There are six murderers in the State of
New York under sentence by electricity.
-Four are at Sing Sing, one is at Auburn, and
one is in the TOmbs. They are Schihiok
Jugigo. ''ihe JAP" who killed Umra Counin
in November last; James Slocum, who mur-
dered his wife while the chimes were ring
ing in the new year; Harris Smier, who
killed Maggie Braney, his mistress, and who
is In the IOmbs; Wood, who killed a man
named Ruff n; Wish, who was kemmler's
companion during the last days of his i'm
prisonment al Auburn. and an Italian who
was sentenced in Brooklyn month ago.
Lawyer John Il. HeinZelman, who is
counsel for the first three named, says that
two of his clients have been in state of
terror bordering on insanity since the facts
regarding Reminders execution became
known. Notice OF appeal to the Court of
Appeals has stald the execution of sem
teDce in each case, but the appeals are
scarcely more than mere fOrmalities, for it
is not expected that sufficient ground for
interference with the judgment of the trial
court exists in any case. When the Court
has passed upon the legal points involved,
probably IN October, nothing save Execu-
tive clemenCy or an act oil the Legislature
can come between the condemned at a fate
similar to kemmler's. Lawyer HeinZelman
says that he is at present barred from max
ing an appeal to the Governor by the fact
that he has not technically exhausted all
possible remedies which his clients have in
the courts. When final decision is rendered
by the Court Of Appeals he proposes to get
up a monster petition to the Governor ask
ing for communication OF the various sem
fences, underline plea that execution by the
present legal method would BIO barbarous
and inhuman.
Since kemmler was put to death. Lawyer
HeinZelman says Slocum. in Sing Sing, has
besought him to send Sisters of Mercy and
other spiritual advisers to see him. He is
half frantic with terror, and spends most of
his time in prayer The two who are in
Sing Sing are not supposed to see the daily
papers, but the prisoners have telegraph
up there and have learned the details of
Reminders taking Off Jugigo expresses a
decided preference for decapitation. Ii he
cou Id die by the sword, after the fathion of
his country, he would meet his fate with
resignation, but the mysterious horrors of
the electrical chair have filled him with
terror. Lawyer Heinzelman has obtained
an order of court permitting Sisters of
Mercy to visit Slocum.
Personally, MIR. Heinzelman Is in favor of
capital punishment. but he does not believe
in the present law. The provision for the
post-mortem mutilation of the remains and
their burial in quicklime without religious
ceremony he regards as revolving and inhu-
man; He does not believe civilized coun-
try should 60 so lar as to punish mans
dead body after life has departed. He is in
doubt of his power to save his clients from
death IL the Legislature should again pre-
scribe hanging as the method of INJECTING
the death penalty. The punishment for
murder, he says, is death, and the sentence
of the Court in the case Of each Of his clients
was thai he ''be put to death according to
law" The point will be tested, Of course,
II occasion ariSes.-Globe-Demo