Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-02
AWAITING THE FATAL voLrs.
Four Murdsr~p .s sing sing 10 he saecsr,-
cuted NEXT Week

SING sISe, \. Y, July 2.-The four murder
ers-smiler, slocum. Wood (colored) aud
Jugigo (Jepanese) who are under sentence 20
die by electric shock next week and Who have
not, like their two fellow condemned. McElvaine
and frezxa, succeeded in obtaining further
delay, are awaiting death with apparent calm
ness. Slocum. the wife murderer. SAYS that
his lawyer has only two days more in which 20
get in his work, as he expresses H. Slocum
adds: II guess it's all mp this time and I'm
glad OF IT, don't want any more fooling. I'd
rather have il over"
Jugigo who killed fellow-countrymAn and
fellow-sailor, and who is said by New York
newspaper to have gone insane, IL apparently
merely low spirited and dazed by the approach
OF his terrible end. The prison officials ssy
that there is no ground for a deferment of
execution In his case on account OF his mental
condition.
Wood, who killed an italian fello~-isborer on
the New York aqueduct. II. as usual, very quiet
He reads, smokes and sits thinking. but rarely
SAYS q word.
Smiler. the Salvation Army offcer Who
killed one OF his three wives because she left
him on account Of i'll treatment talks continu-
ally, protesting his innocence and complaining
In a whining way of his fate.
All is quiet At the prison today. wsrdea
Brown is consulting with state officials st
Albany about details. When he returns the
machinery viii be tested by scientists- Moth
TO witness the executions will be issued
WHAT WARDEN BROWN SAYS
ALBANY, n. Y, July At is just possible
that pay not execute ANYBODY next week"
The speaker was Warden Brown Of Sing sing
prison. and he was standing in the office Of the
superintendent Of prisons at the capitol. He
had been asked how the preparations for the
execution of the murderers going on and
he was answering it,
"You see. be continued. ut is more than
possible a stay may be asked for and granted 20
sensible judges who after this delay NAV not
grant II, and In that case some OF the convicted
men will have 20 die" Mr.. Brown talked
as nonchalantly as il he were gong 20 be
the best man at wedding in
stead of manager Of a wholesale slaughter.
In response TO further queries he said that
everything was in readiness and he anticipated
no hitch. He admitted that IL IL only the
second trial of electrocuton there was still
little novelty about il and break of some kind
est care would be taken that all
the apparatus was in the best of work
ng order. The men are in the best Of
condition, according to the warden, aud none
Of them have broken down Asked TO give
some information TO the time Of execution
and the number TO be killed in one day, he
said; II have no information 30 give. 1 shall
carry ont the Law to it's last letter. and shall
give no information to the press other than
that the execution took place at a certain hour"
We'll, You are going TO have newspaper men
In at the executiony"
Not one" he replied calmly. 81 snail be
personally acquainted with every witness. and
have already refused both press associations.
the World the Tunes and the Herald nd
mittance. The law shall be implicitly obeyed
and no newspaper reports shall come from the
inside of my prison walls The information
which the Law allows shall be given, and that 10
ALL
The electrical law, to which Mr.. Brown re-
fers prescribes that only the bare fact Of an
execution shall be printed and TO publish the
details is q misdemeanor. Warden Brown 10
evidently determined in the matter and says
that he will even swear his Jury to secrecy. Ii
is believed that he is supported BY higher state
authorities.