The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-06
TO BE KILLED THIS WEEK.
LoppY SAYS HE rs RKADE-HE WANTS
No STAT.


I.ive.-The Elsstric Cbsi~ Ready for us
Fsarth vietissA1,eppy says Hes 1snocent.
Unless stay be granted by the United States
Court, Martin ID. Loppy. convicted on Nov. 1S.
1850. OF the murder Of his wife. will suffer
death In the electric chair Mt Sing Sing during
the week beginning at midnight OF to-day.
Gov Hill has refused 10 grant reprieve. and
tho sentence OF tho Court OF General Sessions
OF Nov. %. 1900 confirmed by tho Court Of
Appeals at Albany Oct. u. 1901. will be carried
out
Loppy is ready to die. ho says, and docs not
want Communication OF his sentence to impris-
onment for lie. The appeal to Gov. Hill was
made against his earnest solicitation after bis
counsel had told him that tho Court OF Appeals
had decided against him and that there
was little hope Of obtaining relief from
the United States Court. When Chap
lain Law. who became Interested in him
when no was prisoner ut tho Tombs.
told him that it WINS his duty as n Christion to
do all that lay In his power to prolong his life.
Loppy answered that he did not consider that
prisoner lived. Ho had no visitors yester-
day and tho prison officials did not toll him OF
Gov. Hills decision. Mr. Law arrived ut Sing
Sing last evening and will tell him this morn
ing. Loppy occupies tho second cell In the
old death house. directly opposite the entrance
" tuO uuEA Cciss "IcA uc WAN" W ssAS NV"sss
chair he will pass the doors Of tho coils In
which Trezza and McElvnino ore confined.
Everything is In readiness for tho execution.
Tho chair 10 which smier. slocun. Wood and
Jugiro suffered Is in place. and less than five
minutes will suffico to connect the doath-de
ing wires. The dynamo will be tested some
time to-day. and then at any moment that
Warden Brown may consider appropriate
Loppy may be ordered from his cell to meet
his death. The keepers do not anticipate any
trouble with him. He Is war veteran with
good record for courage. and no carries the
scars Of two wounds received in action. He is
blind OF one eye.
Chaplain Law believes that when Loppy says
he is innocent Of the crime Of which he is NC
cused that no is speaking the truth. The
Chaplain does not doubt that the verdict was
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taken place Warden Brown said las:
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That the law Be smended 50 as to admit o
representative OF each press association TO
Citations to Be eanlre1 70 rnsh
State 81 Ne% thst ea
application for such report. and an agreement
to pay the same fec as was charged to the
According to Warden Brown, there are two
~ nss oe
Is NO b nj IN the prison. suitable for an
porters that would 10 sent there and. second. b.
9nnsrve. ths condemned and double the an,
faulty 9f the exception. It was work enough
world Without having any extra duty to per.
form. A place OF execution placed centrally
g. sx srS ss inc IS Ws
the Warden thinks tho state should establish.
The VII s place
that he said no intended doing on Monday
It was apparent to tho reporter that
on that day ut loast the dynamo
would not work. The method OF killing
Is the same as that adopted in July. Loppy
will be bound In the chair. One electrode will
be applied to his head and the other to the
calf Of his leg The signal will be, given. the
dynamo vii! charge the wires. and the current
will shock the life out OF the murderer.
Loppy was very. drunk when he went to his
apartments on the top floor OF 20 Chrystie
street on the night OF July 4. 1891. He quar-
relied with his vito. Hester. and tho other
tenants In the house heard them wrangling.
The next day, when the door was broken open
pigh1 before and was lyiHg on the floor beside
with o blade of a. broken shears Loppy denied
that he had killed her. and advanced the
theory that she had committed suicide. Tho
blood spots that We're. found ON his. shirt got
there, he said. when he cut himself shaving.
A pail OF water that had been used to wash tho
blood stains from tho floor was presented by
the police as evidence that murder had been
done Medical testimony proved that the wo-
man could not have inflicted all the wounds
found on her. The door was locked on the in
side when 1t was broken open. and no evidence
was submittei that any ono but Loppy Ind his
with had been there.