Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-07
l0PPY DIED AT NOON.
Another Murderer Electrocuted a.
Sing Sing Prison.
THE EXECUTION WAS WITHOUT A HITCH
Three Fatally Injured by an expIo-
sion at Sparrow Point.
ACCIDENT TO A CABLE CAR
ACCIDENT TO A CABLE CAR.
IN THE DEATH CHAIR

Murderer Martin ID. Lorpy Given . F.s.i
shock st Sing sing.
STNo SrSa. Y, Dec. MARTIN ID. Loppy
died today IN the death chair for the murder Of
hls wife on July 4. 1880.
Warden Brown left the prison al about .
O'clock, got into a hack and rode 10 the railroad
depot He waited there until s20 m, when
trains arrived from New York and the uppes
part OF the state. On these trains were Dr.
Carlos Mcdonald and DR. jenkins, both Of Nev
York. and DIR. Daniels. There were four more
witnesses among Warden Browns guests whoe~
names could not be ascertsined. Warden Brown
courteously greeted the visitors ard the frst
question they asked the warden wss vhethes
they would be able 10 return tonight The
warden replied with q smile that he would
answer that question later on. Some reporters
overheard this conversation and the warden
quickly ushered his guests into carriages and in
1ew minutes they were conveyed 10 the war
dens office.
The visitors all carried satchels. and one man
large round box about two feet high and one
loot IN diameter, which was handled with great
care. The witnesses now present includes Drs.
McDonaldan Jenkins, Prot. Iaudy of Colunabis
College, DIR. DaniRls. 4. B Brown superintendent
Of supplies; Dr. Barlow of Sing Sing. Warden
Fuller and DIR. Ransom of Daunemora prison,
ana Dr. Law, chaplain OF the Iombs and spir-
ltuSi adviser of Loppy. Principal Keeper
Connaughton came out OF the prison st s;85
am. and said that every thing was quiet on the
inside. There had been no change in Loppys
coneiuon, and he was calmly waiting TO meet
his fate.
When Mr.. Conuaughton was asked n the ex-
ecntlon was likely to take place today he
laughed, and the only answer he would make
to the newspaper man was that it would 10
well Tor them to be around.
THE BLACK FLAG RArsEp
The signal, q black flag, indicating that be
had been put to death, was hoisted on the fag-
staff over Warden Browns house at I20s. AZ
that time there were but few persons outsids
OF the prison except the armed men acting No
a guard around the prison and the newspaper
reporters. The latter had kept mp
constant vigil and the first indication that the
law was carried out and Loppy sent into eser-
nifty was the appearance of man . head through
the small cupola on top of the wsrden's house.
The man upon whom this unpleasant duty de-
volved evidently sought 10 avoid being seen
and quickly ran the dismal death signal up and
disappeared
The exact time that Loppy was killed cannot
be officially stated, but presuming that the man
was promptly sent TO display the signal not
more than three or four minutes could have
elapsed between the minute Boppy nctu-
ally killed and the time of the man hosting the
signals. According TO Warden Brown the exc
cntlon was carried out the same as at the time
OF the killing OF the four men in the same chair
in July last
The warden refused to give any information
except to say that the Law had been carried ous
and that the execution Of Loppy was q success.
LoPPr's LAST MoMESrs
Loppy was attended in his last moments by
Chaplain Low Of the Tombs prison, who wAs
Loppys spiritual adviser, and Chaplain Edeer-
ton of Sing Sing prison. When Loppy arrived
at Sing Sing three weeks ago he Was sallep and
indifferent, but he gradually changed under the
4
Edgerton were with the condemned man when
Warden Brown. accompanied by Principal
Keeper Connaughton, appeared at Loppya
cage to read to him the death warrant
Loppy was more intelligent than any of the
murderers who have been confined in the death
house. He listened with bowed head, and when
the warden finished reading the doomed man
was led out Of his cage. The little procession
then started for the death chamber. Warden
Brown and Keeper COnnaughton He'd the way
the keepers through the dark psssageway On
account OF his partial blindness.
N THE EXECUTION ROOM.
As soon as Loppy arrived in the execution
room he was promptly placed in the chair and
strapped so that he could not move head, hand
or foot. While this was being done the ex-
perts, physicians and other persons present
were grouped about the room in o semi
circle. The electrodes were then applied 10 the
temples and the other the cali Of the right leg.
The electrodes were moistened with q solution
of salt water before the current was turned ON
and at intervals afterward. Capt. Hilbert, who
was in charge of the death machinery, bad the
dynamo running and everything was ready for
turning on the current
As the signal was given 10 the man at tho
switchboard TO turn on the current Doctors
Macdonald. Landy and Rock well stood near tho
chair with watches in their hands TO time the
respiration and the beating of the heart. None
of the witnesses would reveal how Loppy died.
1t is understood that I, Ass volts were used, the
same as at the July execution, and that . cur
rent Of that voltage was continued from nfty 70
sixty seconds.
As soon as Loppy was pronounced dead the
straps which bound his body were removed
and the dead murderer was carried into the
apartment directly of the execution room
where an autopsy was beld under the direction,
of Drs- Macdonald and Landy. The other
physicians were present and they all made notes
OF what the autopsy revealed. Loppy' remains
were placed in rough pine coffin and sometime
after sundown this evening the coffin will be
borne on the shoulders of four convicts TO the
little cemetery the hill within the prison
grounds and placed in q grave filed with
quick lime, alongside Of the graves of Wood,
Slocum and Jugiro, who were executed lAsS
summer.