The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-08

to smoke. DR.. McDonalk again signalled
the electrician TO turn the switch: the cur
rent was withdrawn and instantly the
body collapsed again. Teis time there was
no response from the muscles; Slocum
hung silent and motioniess in straps.
There was no doubt Slocum was dead.
When the straps were unbuckled unlike
kemmler. Slncum's remains were so limp
that they would have slipped from the
chair as the last strap was unfastened had
not the attendants held them in place.
The second of the condemned men chosen
was Smiler, the Salvation army bigamist.
who murdered one of his wives. be came
with q calm step, supported by Rev. Mr..
Edgerton on one side aud Rev. Mr.. Law
on the other. Like SlocuIn, he stepped
forward without summons and seated
himself. placing his hands on tee arms or
the chair and waiting for attendants to
bind him. The attendants busted them
selves with the straps again, and Smiler
sat calmly looking anead until the bandage
was drawn across his eyes. Again the
straps and buckles were inspected; again
the white handkerchief; the electrician
threw the switch and in moment more the
straps frightened under the strain OF the
taut muscles as the electric cur
rent shot through the body. The con-
tact in this case as In the other was
twenty seconds; the current measured some
1,500 volts. AT the end of twenty seconds
the current was turned of. but only for
minute. The chest of the man in the chair
began TO heave, and the current was turned
on once more until, as In the case of Slo-
cum, ii burned the flesh. Then IL was shut
eff again. and after delay which showed
there was no chance of revival, the BODY
was unstrapped and taken from the chair
to the autopsy room.
Wood was the third to De executed. He
came willingly accompanied by two priests,
and went through the ordeal bravely, with
substantially she same results
In kemmler's case the burning of the
body was ascribed in part to the fact that
the sponges at the electrodes were not all
well wetted. In all three cases to-day the
sponges were wetted continually, and still
the flesh burned.
The fourth man to meet death was the
japanese, Jugiro, ii being expected IL any
OF the prisoners made any resistance TO be-
ing placed in the chair il would be he- But
long term of confinement had bowed
Jugiro into tame submission. When the
warden and keepers came to his cell he
sprang up and followed quietly. His was
perhaps the most repulsiye face that had
stared at the witnesses from the chair. 1t
was distinctly brutal. He took his place
in the chair quietly, suffered the attend
ants to bind him without protest sand stol-
idly awaited the shock. 1t came 10 him as
TIC OlhCf luACCs duu iihC iCoNSlo. ihO
first contact did not destroy all appearance
of life and the second burned the flesh.
The autopsy on the bodies was COM
menced early in the morning, and lasted
until well along in the afternoon. Those
who conducted the operations were: Drs.
Mcdonald, Rockwell, Southwick, Daniels
and Prof. Landy. The body of Jugiro was
the first to be placed under the desecting
knife As to the result of these examina-
tions, there appears TO be difference of
opinion among those who took part in the
autopsy. Some physicians report no burns
or marks were discovered. while others tell
exactly an opposite story.