Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-07-07

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Their sueee.sf.i Eier,rocu,Iop In th'
Prison.

Slocum, emlier. Wood and Jugiro,
was done this morning. SlOcum was
killed Mt i.i2l, Smiler at 5.li, Wood nj
$3.50 and Jugifo nj 0.oJ.
a group " newspaper men were
lounging on the stone stops aud bluh
opposite the prison.
The flrst signal announcing that One
Of the men had paid the penalty for
murder with his lie was n small white
flag which was run 10 the top u the
POLE aud then pulled down. twas the
prcarrangcd signal that Slocum, the
baseball player and tho man who
hacked his wife 10 death with an axe,
had died Just i've minutes before the
iiag was set. The news was sent on n
dozon waiting wires. A close calcutta
ton likes the time u Slocum's death nj
i.i9iD.
Theru was little hustle ON the out.
side when the flag went up, but NJ
soon n II was pulled down everything
bccam. quiet again. The dcathlikr
silence which followed the hustle
caused by the ralsing Of the nag, was
oppressive.
At 6.i5 O'Clock the first rays Of the
morning sun topped the eastern blufi
and frightened up the scene.
The square u blue bunting which
cawl,d slowly up the pole at $40 an.
nouncod that smilcf the salvation
Army boy aud slayer Of his third wife,
had givun life for life live minutes bc.
fore. I, took the attendants i've min.
utts 10 20 n the top Of tho prison aud
hols, the signal.
No one knew exactly who WIS insido
that board house with carefully
screened Windows. No one know Just
who were legal witnesses 10 the Killing,
but this ~ Supposed ~ be the list! Dc.
Southwick, Buffalo; Or. Daniels,
Buffalo; Dr. Carlos y. Mcdonald.
State Hoard II Lunacy, New York.
Dr. Alphonze ID. Rockwell, New
York; be. Samuel IL. Ward, Albany;
Df. Franklin Townsend, Auburn; Dr.
Barker, Of the local prison s,nti; DE-.
HAfambarger, prof. Lewis n. LAndy,
New York; Father Hogan, ilsv. Jno.
II. Cfucdon, Deputy Attorney General
Hoffman, T.. =, Davis, .lrctrlcian, aud
Chafloa Dunton, warden OF Auburn
prison.
The witnesses had remained In prs
on NIL night. Il was the Idea Of the
warden TO keep them within the walls,
where they could not bu interviewed
and where they would have no chauc,
10 talk 10 anyone.
Thrrc was some speculation ~ 10
WHAT COLON IuE sENT riAd
would lie and whether Lawyer Hair,
had succeeded In the object 81 his visi
to the warden In behalf ~ the n-gf,
Wood. There whs not much time f1l
speculation for at h;ii n black iltg wen
up tho polo. II settled the fact thai
| tile negro Wood, who killed his com
panion Aqucdoi during quarrel, WA
| dead.
Jap, that big muscular Hhlhuyr
JugifO, who In ilt Of rage stabbed G.
death one u hl. countTymen, was u
come next. The flag Of death Tor hin
was rcd. II was believed the taking
| Of the foreigner 10 the chair would b,
u hard task aud that there would b,
such q scene IN the death chamber ~
the warden, who talked " killing MOI
~ he would OF bchcading chickens tot
his Sunday dinner, would not forget a,
/ long ~ he lived.
Jap had queer Ideas about death. IL,
believed when he was taken 10 thai
mysterious room no was 10 be tortured
/ lie had said, NJ well As lac could, thA
no would hght before no would III II
that chair. Displacement ~ the wifci
OF Of the harness, caused by struggle
/ would mean torture. The watcher
anxiously looked up At the pole on III,
/ roof 10 sec the red flag which wOult
announce 10 them the death u Jugiro
II was long IN coming. That fact "a
Il - ii
presently. The law had been csfrlct
out 10 the letter and tho rcd nag wen
up. Jap died Mt 600.
Tho entiro tlino consumed In OK
.cutlng In. four men was ON. houi
and twcnty'thrcc and n half minutes.
TiiE MIsrAiSis
Of the electrical experts which mad,
the execution u ksmmler In part !
failure, were carefully avoided today
The causes Of accidents aud delays al
Auburn, were known 10 the warden al
Sing Sling and they had boon aniicl
/ pated In the arrangements Tor the exc
cution Of the four men who were 10 bi
put 10 death during this week. The
tested voltage Of the dynamos had beot
brought up To 5000, while the estimates
voltage which was turned int,
Reminders body was only 100. Tn,
weakness " Ia. current ut kemmlefi
execution was chargeablo In part 10 ia,
slipping NJ the belts on the dynamo'
aud especial preeautlon had been thkei
10 avoid this today. The dynam,
used was tho Westinghouse, tho c0un
lerpart Of the tlylu used al Auburn
but II was supplemented by smal
dynamo intended 10 augment the cue
rent.
Al today's execution the exeouiionc
was IN small closet with m onon top
through which he could hear anything
said 10 him by tho warden or any .
his assistants, aud tho electricians wbr'
IN the execution chamber itself Be
sides by m arrangement OF switches
II was made p0sslble for the electrician
himself 70 turn the current into ia,
execution chair or t. turn II Oh, II
case tho oxecutloner should becOml
confused or fail 10 respond 10 tho war
denis signals. With these precaution
II was thought that every chance q
failure had been provided against.
the WITNESSES
10 the @ execution gathered nj the prlsol
IN response 10 tho warden'a Invitation
half an hour or more before the tim
fixed for the olectrocution 10 taxi
place. The warden hal invited thl
| han uun,i,ar ~ thnae tyhnn ths law an