The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-08
LOPPY'S HARD FATE
Flesh Over His Temples Was
Scared to the Bone.
RESULTS OF THE AUTOPSY.
The Body Put in Box With Quicklime
and Buried on a Hillside.

Loppy Met His Fate with Great iForti-
tude- Made No Resistance But Placed
Himself Voluntarily in the Death Chair
The Precautions Used to Prevent the
News From Being Known History of
the Crime for which the Murderer
Suffered.
SING SING, N Y. Dec. s.-The Genes
at the execution by electricity Of Martin
d Loppy, the New York wife murderer,
in Sing Sing prison yesterday were a
repetition of those which occurred at
the execution of the four murderers in
the same place in July last The con-
demned met his fate bravely. Three
shocks were administered, and Loppy
was pronounced ad in six minutes af-
ter he was placed in the chair. Voltage
used in this instance was from l, 700 to
1, 750 as against 1000 used in July.
The total period of contact was from 40
1-2 to 80 1-2 seconds, the difference be
ing caused by variation OF the battery.
The first shock was administered at one
minute to II and at 1905 the warden
ordered one of the guards 60 run up the
flag pronouncing to the outside world
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plished.
The witnesses were DIR. Carlos f. Nc
Donald, State Commissioner of Lunacy;
Prof. Louis A. Laudy of Columbia Col
lege; Dr. Samuel b. Ward, of Albany;
e. A. Brown, State Prison Purchasing
Agent; Rev. Sidney G. Law Chaplain
of the Tombs; Rev, Silas w, Edgerton,
Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison; Deputy
Coroner w. p jenkins, of New York;
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L. l.: DR.. Brill, of Brooklyn; E. F. Davis,
OF New York; Dr. Evans, of Schuyler;
DIR. w. f. Douglass, of Middletown; (;
Dr. ]. E. Ransom, of Dannemora
Prison; DR.. Holliston, of Bellevue Hos
pital, New York; Dr. Hiram Barlow, Of
Sing Sing; NJ. g. Ellison, DR. Kingston,
of Newburg, and DR.. Ely, of Newburg.
A little after 10 o'clock Rev. Mr.. Law
and Rev. Mr.. Edgerton went to Loppy' s
cell and spent the hour and a half be
tween that time and the execution in
preparing him for the ordeal they knew
he was to meet.
Meanwhile the warden had assembled
the witnesses in the prison parlor and at
10 minutes of IL they marched in double
file, headed by the warden, through the
passageway to the death chamber.
Headkeeper McNaughton and two
deputies then entered Loppy's cell and
conducted him to the death chamber.
He placed himself in the chair vol lun-
tarily. The straps about the legs, chest,
abdomen and the arms were quickly ad-
justed; the cap containing the cleo
trodes for the temples was lowered and
placed in position, the death mask
drawn over the face, and the guards
stepped back and left him alone
DR.. Med onald gave the signals Elec-
trician Davis closed the switch anC
Loppy had paid the penalty of hi'
crime
The autopsy by Deputy Coroner Jenk
ins showed that, as in all former kill
4 ings by electricity, the blood was in a
fluid state all through the body. Both
vetricles Of the heart were filled with
blood, and the color was slightly darker
than in normal cases. The spleen was
pulpy and colored in spots and slightly
enlarged. The pupil of the eye was
noticeably contracted.
The other was discolored. The skin
along the back of the body was alsC
discolored, slightly purple, and in spots
Z were found number of blisters. Tht
> legs were contracted and the muscles
n rigid Marked evidences of burning
were found on the calf of the legs, aud
over the temples the flesh was scare,
nearly to the bone. Loppy was burned
as badly as was the first under the ney
= method of killing.
!. Four hours later four convicts re
% moved the body Of Loppy from the au-
q topsy table and placed it in rough
= wooden box, half filed with quioklime
Then they filed it with the same ma
terial, nail cd on the top and hauled il
to the lonely trench on the hillside
"a where they buried it, No friends OIL
2 relatives have ever inquired for Loppy
afn 10 fna
L Soon after midnight yesterday tn
"a scenes around the old prison assu med al
appearance similar 70 those during tn
execution of Slocum, Smiler and tn
others A number of newspaper mel
"a had taken possession of the hill opposit
10 the prison, aud kept themselves bus
!. trying to interrupt and pump informa
= tion from those who entered or cam
or out of the Jail. The death line wa
e closely patrolled and The guards, carry
v ing guns loaded with corks, had order
to "pop" any one who persisted in cross
i. ing the line without permission.
il When day light began to show tn
- outlines of the prison walls to the wait
ing press representatives, rain wa
pouring steadily and the surrounding
were dismal enough to form q suitabl
frame for the approaching death scenG
At o'clock the electric lights in th
prison and in the villa also were turne
of and the engineer of the special engin
went home, so that the indications weI
that nothing was to be done during th
early morning hours.
-. Chief Keeper Connaughton came out
~ side the dead line at about 8 OF cloc
aud SAID the prisoner had passed yer
In comforta BILE night, resting quietly an
that he ate his breakfast with quite
ys ~. good deal Of relish.
90 The execution room is in a temporal
aP, frame structure built on the south sid
'1' of the main bnlding of the prison
rec, There are two rooms in the little built
loSl ing-one the execution room and th
la,k lard other the room where the autopsy
der. neld Inc eAecublou rOph 10 III u
A. eastern half of the building, Again
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