The morning call., 1891-07-08


Warden and his deputy. The Jap did not
seem to comprehend the purpose of the
chair, and seated himself without protest.
A keeper assisted COnnaughton in binding
the Jap, and the last act was quickly ac-
complished. The current was allowed to
remain on the Jap's body about three sec
onds longer than the contact with the
others. Accordingly his skull and leg
were strongly marked bv the electrodes.
Jugiro's body was taken away. Six
trican in the dynamo-room that all was
over, and the witnesses returned TO the
Warden's room.
BOUND TO SECRECY.
Witnesses of the executions signed an
agreement last night that they would not
reveal what occurred within the execution
chamber. The autopsies were performed by
o'clock this afternoon, and corps of
physicians left the depot short time after
for New York and Albany. DR.. Mcdonald,
who conducted the execution and autopsy.
was asked for statement. He declined to
give any information, saying the results
would be given out in Albany from official
sources. When asked to deny the state
ment that the men did not die instantly. he
sad: =! have nothing to say as to that
men suffered no pain. They made no resist
ance at ALL"
% Do you deny they were burned?"
decline to be inte viewed on that
point"
Dr. Ward was asked, "Dd the first shock
Kill the men?" and he said. 81 do not care
to answer that; think the execution sue
cessful.'
The bodies of Jugro. Wood and Slocum
will be buried late tonight in the potters'
field in quick-lime. Smiler's body will be
removed by his wife in the morning.
OUTSIDE THE PRISON.
The crowd outside the prison was COM
posed almost entirely of representatives of
newspapers and of the two press associa-
tions. Warden Brown declined to permit
representatives of the press associations to
have access to the execution chamber, either
as assistants Or witnesses, and il was known
several days before the execution took place
that the accounts of it which might be pub
llshed must be obtained from the twelve
citizens who were invited to be present, if
they could be persuaded to talk about 1t.
Extensive preparations had been made to
handle what news could he obtained as rap
idly rs possible. Near the place where the
temporary eXecution-rOOm was built was a
small frame building of two rooms. Special
wires had been strung to it, and the oper-
ators sat with fingers on the key from mid
night Of Sunday waiting for the signal to
send the news that the execution had taken
place. The Western Uni n Telegraph Com
pany mad put extra operators in its Office at
the railroad statl on, not far down the track,
TO handle the reports OF its special corre-
spOndents.
THE FIRST SIGNAL.
a group of newspaper men lOunging on
the stone steps and the bluff opposite the
prison saw the first signal announcing that
one OF the men had paid the penalty for
murder with his life. 1t was small white
flag, which was run to the top of the pole
and then pulled down. 1t was the prear-
| ranged signal that Slocum the baseball
player, who had hacked hi, wife to death
with an ak. had died just FIVE minutes be-
fore. Before the flag was set the news was
| on dozen wires. A close calculation fixes
the time of Slocum's death at 4:42: 80
There was little hustle outside when the
white flag went up, bat as soon as it was
pulled down everything became quiet again.
The deathike silence which followed the
ouStie caused by the raising Of the flag was
oppressive. At 5:l5 o'clock the first rays of
the morning sun topped the eastern bluff
and frightened up the scene.
sAnLER AND WOOD.
The square Of blue bunting which crawled
slowly up the pole al 5:lq o'clock annouced
that Smlier, the Salvation Army boy. the
slayer Of his second wife, had given life for
life five minutes before 1t took the attend
ant five minutes to go to the top OF the
prison and hoist the signal. There was
some speculation as to what the color of the
next flag would be. and whether Lawyer
Haire had succeedsd in the object of MS
visit to the Warden in behalf of the negro
Wood. There was not much time for spec
ulation, for at 3 "A o'clock the black flag
went up the pole. IL was a settled fact
that the negro Wood. who killed his COM
panlon on the squeduct during quarrel,
was dead.
THE RED FLAG.
The Jap, that big, muscular Shibuya Ju-
giro, who in fit II rage stabbed TO death
one OF his couRtrymen, was to come next.
The rag If death fer him was red. 1t was
bel eyed the taking of the foreigner to the
chair would be hard task, aud that there
| would be such scene in the death cham
| Der as the Warden, who talked of killing
men as he would of beheadng chickens for
his Sunday dinner. could not forget as long
| as he lived. The Jap had a queer idea
about death. He believed that when lie
| was taken TO that mysteriou room he was
| to be tortured. He had said, as well as he
could, that he would fight before he would
! sit IN that chair, and the displacement of
| the wires or of the harness caused by
| struggle would mean torture. The watchers
anxiously looked up at the pole on the roof
| to see the red flag announce to them the
! death OF Juglro. 1t was long in coming.
That fact savored of struggle. But it was
| all over presently. The law had been car
rled out To the letter and the red flag went
| u : The Jap died at 6:06 o'clock.
PAINLESS DEATHS.
Rev. DR.. Law, Chaplain of the Toombs.
! New York, who is Assistant Prison Chap
| lain, and was witness, said: 81 was fully
| convinced that the killing of murderers by
| vlnced to the contrary. Every one of the
men went 10 the chair calmly and died cas-
| lly, without pain or contortlon. Death was
| Instantaneous"
| The doctors took charge of the four bodies
Immediately after death and began an au-
| topsy to discover far as possible how
! rapid had been the killing and the precise
effects produced.
THE WITNESSES.
No one knew just all who were legal wit
nesSes to the killing, but this is supposed
| to be the list: DR.. Soutbwick of Buffalo
| DR.. Daniels of Buffalo; Dr. Carlos +. Nc
Donald, State Board of Lunacy, New York
! DR.. Alphonso d. Rockwell, New York; DIR.
| Samuel b. Ward, Albany; DR.. Franklin
Townsend, Auburn; DIR. Barker Of the local
prison staff; Dr. Haram Barger, Professor
Louis Ii. Landy, New York; Father Hogan,
Rev. John B. Grredon, Deputy Attorney
General Hoffman; E. +. Davis, electrician; :;
and Charles Durstun, Warden of the Auburn
Prison; The witnesses remained in the prison
| all night. 1t was the idea of the Warden to
keep them within the walls, where they
| could not be interviewed, and where they
would have no chance to talk to anyb body.
TYPEWRITER OATH.
NEW YORK, July THE Commercial
Advertiser Sing Sing correspondent says:
| George Edward Oliver, organist, O. Albany
was among the invited witnesses of the
| electric execution. Oliver is friend of
| Warden Brown. Why the organist was in
| vited Is not clear to any one. lie is in no
sense scientist knows nothing whatever
! about electricity, yet was there with the
scientific men. 1t is said on good authority
the paper which every witness signed last
| night was an oath of secrecy and was
type-written document The phraseology
| of 1t was heavy.
AN lawful TIME"
The Telegram's Sing Sing special says:
| One of the guards said that Jugro was
dragged out of his cell by force. 1t seems
| that when the supreme moment came his
terror, intensified by the Changing of the
great steel door as it opened and shut three
times, each marking the passage OF a hui
| man life, rose to such pitch that he was
unable or unwilling to walk. Beyond saw
Ing there was an awful time" the guard
! was silent.
INTEREST IN LONDON.
LONDON, July Much interest was felt
here on the subject OF the New York cleo
| trical execution and tho leading papers or
| dered full reports. Public sentiment doas