The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-04
n SHADOW OF DEATH.
:. Men are to Die by Electricity
Next Week.
r7ER. sLocUN, WOOD, JUGIRO
no Names and All are Hopeful
a., the Law will Again Interfere
'' s,,o Tbem...The Preparations for
~. @,f EIcctrocntlon are all Completed.

vrr YoRG, July S'-Waraen y" lil'ain
, ~ NINE. Of sing Sing, will have his
.,;,I hands iull next week. In the
.''., ara four men condemned to
paw '',.n tbc death chair during the next
ESI ~ beginning at midnight Sunday.
,SI 5,y and hour Of execution arc at
e. 4. r ral discretion,
y me men are james ]. slocum, Harris
smiler, Joseph Wood and shibuya
; I tho Jap" All the mon have
W -s,', ,sspiteI at different times. but
| "a, attorneys will probably not take
~, marc steps to save their clients for
u y, Of prosecution for professional
ss.e Of the habeas corpus.
N he four condemned men, smiler
u slocum nro wife murderers. smiler
former salvation army officer, but
n n Ir nm race. He had three wives,
u chen Maggie Drainey, one, OF them
..oJ n live with him on account OF
1 5r"taii,y. he shot her twice. The
..,isr to3k place April 3, 1889, at No.
" ;' SSyeuth avenue. Ambrose II. Purdy,
n sttorney, appealed the case several
~" md the electrocution has thus
L,S deferred from August 4, 1890, the
Ial day originally set.
N Siocnm was formerly o base ball
,. aver He Drained his vile with an
!, Scw Year Eve, 1889, at No. z Cherry
met lie was defended by John Il.
s.is , and in March, 1880, Judge
y ,, sentenced him to die. The
1 NJ beginning May 5, 1890, was the
me me- .et FOR execution, but appeals were
s ,-.5 on the ground Of illegal defense.
n. Japanese, ShibuyaJugiro, stabbed
n Hath A iellOw-countryman, Muir
f,rpi A sailor, in q Japanese boarding
Srse in James street. The men had a
I,prte over a berth on ship return
Igto japan, and Jugiro argued his
I'm with a carving knife. He was
E1tenced last December to be electro
Ted during the week beginning Feb
Tirv 4, but his attorney, John R. Helm
plman, was granted an appeal. The
5Ti5on was affirmed in the Court OF
lppeals. but the lawyer took it to the
United States Supreme Court in Wash.
h1oa which also affirmed the original
lstision. Roger NJ. Sherman, now
5,iros attorney, made in vain the plea
b, the Japanese was not given proper
ri defense, Mr.. Heinzelman not being
ilcmber Of the-bar.
James Wood, the last of the quartet,
tanerU. He was employed on the
Lew Croton aqueduct, andin May, 1880,
nahered Carlo RutH, an Italian and
blow workman. Recorder Smyth sem
tnced him in March, 1889, to die dur
ngthe week beginning May y, 1890.
WoOis case was carried TO the Court OF
Appeals and the Supreme Court. but
With no success. Lawyer Robert j.
Hire based his plea for Wood upon the
BIT that there were no colored men on
lie jusies that tried him.
The four doomed men don't seem to
rslRr how short time they havo to
live. Buoyed up by the hope that they
WILDE granted stays as heretofore, they
slw little anxiety. They are given
theNry best food and each day take
lilln hours exercise in the corridor
iloining their cells. They occupy ad-
Joining cells in the death-house and are
under strict watch.
Rev. John b. Creeden, Of the Catholic
church at sing Sing, has converted
Wood and attends him constantly.
IugfO is also q convert and exhibits
great religious ieryor. For u while he
gaze tue keepers some trouble and tried
10 StaFye himself, and when approached
would cry like child. He wrote illus
traied letters to the head keeper, who
could no! lccipher them. But he is al
together changed now. lie is quiet,
Nears his hair long-in imitation OF
Christ, be says-and continually reads
aJapanese version OF the New Testa-
melt.
Everything Is so trranged that IN
eltciFoGltiou may take place without q
moments preparation. The death
eaalr' duplicate OF theone used in the
e'eriTNution OF Kemmler, was shipped
HON Auburn last November. 1t was
tested soon alter, for the death OF Wood,
under the direction OF elcctncal experts.
An o!l horse was placed on the floor,
eiatled and tn wire applied at the top
o. tle head. The animal died instantly.
Additions have been made to the
Sealh house. Four more cells have
pyea constructed, and OH the west side
q Tie prison has been made the room
"a which the electrocution will take
pace The chair is in tho centre OF the
pCm, with the switchboard and regis
iIehAg Instruments Immediately to tho
.s!t; The wires are concealed In the
"a, and run back to q box-like room
Immediately back Of the chair. In the
.llIe room is placed the lever that will
E N, on the fatal current.
me signal will DO given by the War
va pei, but the identity Of the man
.lo VIII operate the lever will be kept
t'ecTet Five bells will be the signal
" y slt ready, one bell to turn on the
@rrnt' two bells to turn on Il stronger
s.aErSnt, second signal OF one bell to
,, oil the current, and six bells to de.
t9 NJ 'ne end OF the electrocution.
i, lug invitations to the twenty.seveh
. S''.ens required by law to attend the
s", q, have not yet been sent
III. l4ey are to be issued three days