The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-08-15

disputed this Ir. <Ii<A turned
around in bnsiness-like way. and
pointing "a the harness said: 'Oh:
undo that Now tho body can be taken
20 the hospital"
The warden replied that no could not
let any .: the witnesses 60 until he had
their certificates
An Of this conversation took but .
the body looking a. the exposed skin.
suddenly he cried out sharply: "Dr.
McDonoli. see that rupture" In mo
mcnt DR. Spiza and Dr. Mcdonald had
bent over. and were looking. where Dr.
Dalch was pointing. at little red spot
on the hand that rested on the right
arm OF the chair. The index finger Of
the hand had curved backward rs tho
fexor muscles contracted and had
scraped small hole in the skin at the
base Of the thumb on the back OF the
hand. There was nothing strange in
this alone. but what was strange was
that the little rapture was dropping
blood.
Turn the current on instantly; this
man Is not dead" cried DR.. S2iza-
Faces grew white and forms fell back
from the chair.
Warden Dnrston sprang to the door
way and cried: Turn on the current"
But the current could not be turned on.
When the signal 10 stop had come
the operator had pressed the little but
ton which gave the signal to the en-
gineer TO stop the dynamo. The
dynamo was almost AZ stand
still and the volt-metcr registered
an almost imperceptible current The
operator sprang to the button and gave
sharp. quick signal. There was
rapid response, but quick as il was, it
was not quick enough to anticipate the
signs Of what may or may not have been
reviving consciousness As the group
Of horror-stricken witnesses stood help
lessly by. all eyes fixed on the chair.
Kemmle.'s lips began TO drip spittle,
and in q moment more his mouth moved.
and from his mouth came heavy
stertorous sound. quickening and in
creasing with every respiration--if
respiration it was. There was no voice.
but that Of the warden crying 70 the
operator to turn on the current; and the
wheeling sound-half groan-which \
forced itself past the tightly-closei lips. +
sounded through the still chamber with
ghastly distinctncss Some Of the Wit
ness turned away from the sight
One Of them lay down faint and sick.
1t takes long time to tell the
story. II seemed long time in reach
~an1f&~~ fharn MAYA
but seventy-three seconds in the inter-
val which elapsed between the moment
when the first sound issued from Kemio-
ler's lips until the response TO the sig
nal came from the dynamo-room. II
came witt the same suddenness that
had marked the first shock which
passed through Kemmler's body. The
sound which had Mortified the listen
ers about the chair was cut
OF sharply as the body once more
became rigid The Shiny oozc still
dropped from the mouth and ran slowly
in three lines down the beard and On
to the gray vest Twice there were
twitchings Of the body IS the cleo
lricians in the next room turned the
current on and OF. There was to be no
this time about the killing.
The dynamo was run up TO its
highest speed and again and
again the full current Of 1000 volts
Was sent through the body in the chair.
How long il Was kept in action no one
Knows. To the excited group Of men I
bout the chair Is seemed an intermin.
Ible time. For the men who stood in
ront OF the volt-meter in the adjoining
Dom and threw the sEiteh-Ierer over
backward and forward time had no
DIR. Daniel who looked It his watch
xcitedly. and who thought be had an
approximate idea q the time. - least
aid that it was four AMI half minutee
n all. The warden's zssistant. Who stood
ver the dynamo said that On the sec.
md signal. the machinery was rnn only
hree and q half minutes altogether.
{ will never be known with any degree
4 accuracy what the space u time
ras. 80 one was anxious to give the
ignal 10 stop. All dreaded the rs-
Of Offering the man :
nance to revive or - give again 81
east those appearances Of returning
which had startled and
ickened the witnesses few minutes
before. As the anxious group stood
silently watching the body. suddenly
here arose fromit ; white vapcr bearing
with IL pungent and siekering odor.
The body was burning. Again there
we're cries to stop the current and again
the warden sprang 70 the door and gave
the quick order 70 his assistants The
current stopped. ard again there was
the relaxation Of the body No doubt
that this time tie current had done its
work-if not veil. ~ least completely.
II is said tonight that George Il
Irish. Of Albany. \. r.. pulled tho
lever which closed the circuit through
body. lie was one Of the
three persons in the room I'd joining the
execution cell The other two wer.
Electrician Davis and one Of the prison
keepers
1hs Autopsy.
The autopsy Was begun az abort nine
o'clock II was in charge Of Dr. Jcn
kins. OF New York twho handled the
knife). DR.. Daniel. DIR. Mcdonald and
Dr. Spitzka DR.. Fell prepared the
blood drawn from the body for exami.
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