Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-09

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:, Ha.5Sro erNe. July THE killing by cleo
Solllsity Of the four murderers, Slocum,
Suttdler Wood and Jugiro, was done this
t, reoiQoum was killed at 442a o'clock;
BIZ thSilor was put to death at 5.14; Woods
Coli. 81 g. doom at $685. 'usiro was killed
be Tired reporters who sat on the stone
passel opjpQoite prison, outside the dead line,
has p,icod ebout 'daybreak that the clouds Of
.iegaau ~ coming from an exhaust pipe
on, afh@ 4>sine re m ct the north end of the
the dysrd. Reporters knew from this
yenti <yhamoes were running. Some time
hon<K man was seen to crawl through
ation8t Window Of prison cupola and fasten
thetho ropes of flag pole bit OF bunting
biz amirute later there futtered gently
|ho sSi that was the prearranged signal that
legat5cum, the baseball player, the man who
b, Hcked bis wife to death with an axe, had
and I'D jbst five minutes before.
|ndiv close calculation allowing. the man
to teminutes to climb from the interior of
ty ct prison and hoist the flag, placed the
me Of slocum's death at 4.a3d o'clock
of she bag hung against the pole Imply for
plethouple Of minutes and then it wasnauled
be avn. Everything then became quiet
a Gain and the deathlike silence which fol-
ocrsiWed became oppressive.
|tion AT Dis man was again visible on the
iesd tpoln with square Of blue bunting and
ct fjsnt slowly up the pole It was $40 and
mini niler. the Salvation Army boy, slayer of
y 3Ods third wife, had given life for life five
he Minutes before.
tiers Tn the next interval Of waiting there was
resolirno considerable talk among the reporters
to Whist color the next flag would be, as
was know that Lawyer Hare, counsel
ion u the negro Wood, had been in prison
Ii ieairing the night endeavoring to obtain
on ay OK execution for his client.
mcie,At 80 o'clock, however, a black flag
axe snt up the pole. u settled all argument
ID tn,ncerning negro Wood, who killed his
of tArupanion on the aqueduct during a
aafrul. The signal announced according
--.--s previous arrangements that the negro
The Jap, that big muscular spibuya
ngiro, who in fit of rage stabbed to
1891 .eath one Of his countrymen, was to come
lexts The flag Of death for him was red.
|cloit was believed that the taking of the
oreignsr 70 the chair would be struggle
n the death chamber.
The warden, who talked of killing men
fo's be would of beheading chickens for his
Sunday dinner, could not forget as long as
ctiIne lived, the Jap had queer ideas about
death. He believed that when he was
oreaken to that mysterious room beneath he
VI vas TO he tortured. He had said that he
would fight before he would sit in that
Ia le hair. A displacement Of the wires or of
he harness caused by a struggle would
n. >oked up at the pole on the roof to see
Ouho red flag announce the death of Jugiro.
Ia M [eeemed long in. coming. which fact
syored the belief Of struggle, but IT was
led out TO the letter and the red flag went
|lirnlp. The Jap had died at 6.06 o'clock.
lows The entire time consumed in executing
ioii The four men was an hour and 231 minutes.
|theNhe mistakes of the. electrical experts
Shich made the execution Of Kemmler in
bVeian a failure, were carefully avoided to-
day. The cause of the accident and delays
atAuburn were known to the warden at
Sing Sing, and they had been anticipated
erein the arrangements for the execution OF
the four men who were to be put to death
bpe during this week.
The tested voltage of the dynamo had
cabeen brought up TO 5000 while the esti'
mated voltage which was turned into
Kemmler's body was only $50. The weak
thencas of the current at Reminders execu
ton was chargeable in part TO the slipping
illon of the bolts on the dynamos anc
. special precautions had been taken tc
llayoid this to-day.
on The dynamo used was Westinghouse
counterpart of the machine used a
hlnt Auburn, but it was supplemented by
We, mrrent.
NJ The arrangement of the apparatus fol
Hxsting the strength of the current wa.
|ell Nhlmsy at Auburn; SO imperfect tina
Hthrough the neglect of one of the electri
Iclans the incandescent lamps used to ties
IN. tie voltage were left burning and alb
D4 eorbed the greater part OF the cur
hl rent. When 1t was turned into thu
r body of the condemned man here a
hnQ Sing Sing the switches controlling TIN
electricity was so arranged that tn
motion that turned the current into thu
"A wire running to the execution chair
~ turned it away from the incandescen
ryi lamps and the other devices for measur
:. ing its strength. The executioner a
II Auburn was in, room adjoining tn
lOt giving him the signal to turn on the cur
rent had to step from the chair to the com
iapnicating door and speak through tn
or NORWAY; when the current had beef
turned off from the body of Kemmler tb
is hist time this connecting door was fas
IN toned and when there were strong indica
III tons that Kemmler was reviving, il wa
some time before the warden could &c
70 the men in the other room
cir current again. At to-day,'s execution tn
executioner was in small closet with a.
te-c open top, through which he could hea
Ia anything said to him by the warden O
nc any of his assistants, and the electrician
"a were in the execution chamber itself. B'
nv eides by an arrangement of the switche
II II was made possible for the electrical
:. himself to turn the current into the exect
n don chair or to turn it off in case tn
- <Hecutioner should become confused {
is 1bl to respond to the warden's signals
lie NTH these precautions it was thought thi
avery chance of failure had been provide
|ldE gainst.
H. Warden Brown had declined to perm
,he representatives OF the press to have az
Mess to the execution chamber either {
ks sitnesses or as assistants and it was know
4everal days before the execution too
on oace that the account of which might |
e published must be obtained from the
citizens who had been invited 10 be pre-
of. ent If they could be persuaded to tai
qbout it. At 7.45 the witnesses were sui
IN h the warden's house reading the NOR
u Ting papers and waiting for breakfast n
Zone came out and no one was admitted
ID bee them.
SuW Warden Browns son drove down TO III
station during the morning and brougl
tback a number of packages containin
material to be used during the autopsy.
Y Is expected that the autopsy will be col
eluded by $50 or o'clock. Drs Alphon.
%, ,And Rockwell left the prison at u con
q. paratively early hour, and it is understoc
1fook the train for New York. They sal
+ that the executions were an unqualfie
SUCCESS, and that the death of the me
F. ~ were painless.
i One of the witnesses briefly tells Il
~ I'M tory of the execution as follows: Abol
h. o'clock the witnesses and jurors were
r. nto the death chamber. The experts hi
ID III previously examined everything and sa
hat they were satisfied the machinery
81 death would work perfectly. At o'clot
Jlocum walked into the death room a
,ompanied by Father Creedan. He SCENE
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