The record-union., 1891-07-07
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

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Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
NEW YORK, July 6.-The effects of the
expected executions at Sing Sing are
most remarkable. Among the newspaper
correspondents and telegraph offices
there was the greatest excitement, and
the World, Tribune and Times buildings
were filled with correspondents and mes
senger boys standing at every corridor,
waiting to rush" matter to the telegraph
offices and the latter were filled with corre-
spondents hurrying off special stories.
The interest was actually greater than
at the Kemmler execution, many of the
correspondents having been at their desks
all the night and day. Every part of
the country shows extraordinary interest
in getting the news.
The witnesses arrived last evening.
DIR. Southwick Of Buffalo, DIR. Alphonso
Rockwell of New York, DIR. Daniels of
Buffalo, Warden Durston of Auburn, DIR.
Carlos Mcdonald of the State Board of
Lunacy, Professor Ludahy of Columbia
College, r. A. Davis of New York, E. A.
Brown, Prison Purchasing Agent; DIR.
Ward, DR.. Townsend and Rochester
physician were all at the prison.
Deputy Attorney-General Hagan ar
rived late in the evening with the death
warrants.
Two priests entered the prison about
$40 NJ.
Father Gresham and Father Lynch vis-
tied the prison at midnight, as did Mr..
Edgarton, the prison chaplain. They again
Joined the condemned at an early hour
some time before the hour set for the ex-
ecution.
r. j. Haire, attorney for Wood, ar
rived in Sing Sing at II O'Clock and drove
Immediately to the prison. He had in
his pockets certified copy of the petition
for habeas corpus filed by him with
Judge Lacombe.
AT 2:30 A. NJ. breakfast was pre-
pared in the Warden's house for the wit
nessess. Lawyer Haire came out of the
prison few minutes later, and said he
had had long interview with the War
den, the result of which he did not know
When asked if he had any hope of
Woods reprieve he said was not known.
THE AGONY OVER.
has this: flames J. Slocum, Joseph
Wood, Harris A. Smiler and Schihiak
Jugiro were killed by electricity in con-
formity with a legal decree in the prison
this morning, in expiation of the crimes
they committed. Only the prison Off
Gals, scientific experts and witnesses es-
pecially summoned were present"
THE EXECUTIONS.
SING SING, July IA night of suspense
gave way about o'clock to daybreak,
which none doubted would mark the
death OF one or more men awaiting their
doom. Daylight broadened, and there
came with its increasing light symptoms
of life about the prison.
Inside the Warden's house as late as
$3.50 O'Clock, however, quiet reigned more
absolutely than at any time during the
previous night. The dynamos were not
running and the prison had its usual ap-
pearance of quiet. The armed guard and
the group Of newspaper men in the road
way were the only reminder.
About AS the engineer in the dynamo
house TO the north of the prison began
firing up for more steam with which to
run the fast compound engine. Black
smoke rolled from the tall chimney, and
very soon clouds of steam showed that
the engineer was ready at any time to
take his signal.
In fact by $40 o'clock the dynamo was
running at steady pace, only waiting to
be increased as the signals came. 1t was
run for several minutes, and then stop
ped, the test having evidently been sat
istactory.
In the Warden's house, in the mean
time, all shutters had been closed so the
movements of those within could not be
seen, but there was a suspicious stiffness
about the building that, coupled with the
sound of the whirring Of the dynamos,
made the observers without all the more
watchful.
The window blinds of the execution
room were closed tightly, and no view
could be obtained of the interior, but il
was known about Ais A. NJ. that break
fast had been served to the condemned
men In their cells, and to witnesses in
the Warden's house.
Slocum, when awakened from his last
sleep, was offered food and then was in
structed to prepare for death. Soon after
he was led INTO the death chamber. Here
the witnesses gathered. Slocum met
death bravely.
AS nearly as could be learned his death
was quick and painless. His bearing
was that of fear, but he nerved himself to
point whore he seemed Indifferent. He
was strapped firmly in the chair, and
when all was ready the signal was given
which launched him into eternity.
The working of the apparatus was per-
feet, it is said. There was no repetition
of the frightful torture suffered by
Kemmler. The signal was given quickly
When the unfortunate man was in the
chair at 5 A. NJ. full current was turned
on, and in less time than it takes to tell
Slocum was dead.
The electric current was kept on until