Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-08
LOPPY'S HARD FATE
Flesh Over His Temples Was
 Scared to the Bone.
RESULTS OF THE AUTOPSY.
The Fly Put in Box With Quicklime
 and Buried on Hillside.

News From Being Known History of the Crime for Which the Murderer Suffered.
 SING SING, N. r., Dec. 8~-The 8 cenes at the execution by electricity of Martin D. Loppy, the New York wife murderer, in Sing Sing prison yesterday were 8 repetiti on 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 de ad in six minutes af- ter he was placed in the chair. Voltage used in this instance was from 1, 700 to 1, 750 as against 1, 800 used in July. The total period of contact was from 49 1-2 to 50 1-2 seconds, the difference be- ing caused by variation of the battery.
 The first shock was administered at one minute to 12 and at 12:05 the warden ordered one of the guards to run up the flag pronouncing to the outside world that the tragic event had been accom- plished.
 The witnesses were Dr. Carlos E. 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; Dr. Ira T. Van Geissen, of Greenport, L. l.: Dr. Brill, of Brooklyn; E. F. Davis, ot New York; Dr. Evans, of Schuyler; Dr. w. F. Douglass, of Middletown; Dr. J. E. Ransom, of Dannemora Prison; Dr. Holliston, of Bellevue Hos pital, New York; Dr. Hiram Barlow, of
 
 of Newburg, and Dr. Ely, of Newburg.
 A little after 10 o'clock Rev. MT. Law and Rev. MT. Edgerton went to Loppy's cell aud spent the hour and 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 15 minutes of 12 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 un- 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. McD nald gave the signals. Elec- trician Davis closed the switch and Loppy had paid the penalty of his crime ..ys
 The autopsy by Deputy Coroner Jenk- ins showed that, as in all former kill = 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 also discolored, slightly purple, and in spots were found a number of blisters. The legs were contracted and the muscles rigid. Marked evidences of burning were found on the calf of the legs, and over the temples the flesh was scared nearly to the bone. Loppy was burned as badly as was the first under the new method of killing.
 Four hours later four convicts re- moved the body of Loppy from ths au- topsy table and placed it in rough wooden box, half filled with quicklime. | Then they filled it with the same ma l terial, nailed on the top and hauled it | to the lonely trench on the hillside, where they buried it. No friends or relatives have ever inquired for Loppy since his incarceration.
 Soon after midnight yesterday the scenes around the old prison assumed an | appearance similar to those during the execution of Slocum, Smiler and the others. number of newspaper men had taken possession of the hill opposite the prison, and kept themselves busy trying to interrupt and pump in2orma- tion from those who entered or came out of the jail. The death line was closely patrolled and the guards, carry | ing guns loaded with corks, had orders to ''pop" any one who persisted in cross = | ing the line without permission. | When day light began to show the outlines of the prison walls to the wait ing press representatives, rain was pouring steadily and the surroundings were dismal enough to form 8 suitable frame for the approaching death scene. At o'clock the electric lights in the prison and in the villa also were turned off and the engineer of the special engine went home, so that the indications were that nothing was to be done during the early morning hours.
 | Chief Keeper Connaughton came out | side the dead line at about o'clock and said the prisoner had passed a very | comforta ble night, resting quietly and that he ate his breakfast with quite 8 good deal of relish.
 The execution room is in temporary | frame structure built on the south side of the main bnilding of the prison. There are two rooms in the little build ing-one the execution room and the other the room where the autopsy is held The execution room is in the cas- tern half of the building. Against the partition which divides the building is built closed for the executioner He enters it from the autopsy room.
 Loppy had been prepared for death for several weeks He has never ceased to protest his innocence of the crime with which he is charged but he has had no hope of escaping the death penalty. He came to the prison physical wreck deaf, blind in one eye and with his wh ole system shattered by drink.
 The quiet prison life and the coarse healthy prison fare restored some of his vitality and cleared his besoGted mini. Of late he found some consolation in re ligion. ana Mir. Law, the chaplain of the Tombs, hearing from the prison chcp- Nf h hf.. S.,fa