New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-08

peoted TO meet here the doctors and experts VINO "ee
present at the executions and receive from them oe
tailed report of the affair He replied tha' hothinH
OF the kind would occur. "The law, the uoVeihor
said "does not require any such report ana anu
sure am not expecting one. The Jury OF sciehtino
men selected TO be present and witness the executions
must sign and file. with tiie County Cerb'
think. a written statement setting forth that
they saw The condemned persons executed
according to law but no report is necessary nor any
exuressIon OF their views or opinions as experts Ce
tenIy have no understanding with Mr. hacponsiu
that he or his associates shall furnish me with any
thing OF the kind
"What is your opinion OF the success Oh 'ne eAe0u
Hons7p Mr.. Hill was asked
INV only information about them was contained IN
a TELEGRAM received from Warden Brown TINS morh-
ing saying that the four men had been successfully
and satisfactorily executed and In the Assocaleu r
dispatch from Sing Sing, which read IN this afternoons
Albany papers. have no doubt, however pnao vi7
whole business was a success, and have no hesi'S-
ton IN saving that In my opinion the system OF
eectical executions In this State hos come TO stay
The barbarous hangtngs which Mortified the people
will never be resumed"
aYon beeye then that no suoh narrowing mol
dents occurred to-day marked the Kemmler exc
cution at Auburn last yeari"
The Governor shook his head and said that te
doubted whether some OF the reports Of the Kenmer
execution could be subsantiated. He tnen referred
10 DIT. MaeDonah's report OF that execution
1t was perhaps straining the law somewhat
to publish IT, but II being the first attempt 10 execute
criminal by the new process, every civilized natleh
was anxious TO know all about it, and the report had
been sent all over the world. Applications for II from
legislative committees and scientists still being
received but the supply printed had been exhausted,
Another such report in the Governors opinion, OF
to-day's work, necessary.
Mr. Hill was asked If he believed the published
statement that the Westinghouse interest had sue
ceeded in introducing one OF it's agents into the COM
partmsnt where the execution took place, for the pur
pose of sending out sensational reports Of what hap
pened there with the intention Of influencing portions
Of the press and the public against the use Oh cleo
tricty and especially the employment Of the Westng-
house machinery In executing the death sentence
al hardly think" was the reply, that the Westing-
house people were able to impose one OF their mon
on Warden Brown. 1t is well known that they did
succeed in smuggling expert Of theirs In upon
Warden Durston at Auburn. but Brown had the benefit
Of Durston's experence-so don't believe the story
The Governor added that he took no stock In sensa-
iOna stories of roasting the victim alive and accounts
of Like nature There were Writers capable of making
ones blood run cold In reoounting the horrors OF
dentists chair. People not so easily Influenced
by reports conjured up by a lively imagination.
In reply TO question as to whether Warden Brown
had right to impose obligations OF secrecy upon the
witnesses present the Governor said that he could not
answer that directly but he was quite sure that there
was no law against IT. The spirit OF the nav law
denis favor Mr.. Hill was plainly disposed
to regard Mr.. Browns methods il connection
sisted that the statement charging that the Warden
had been acting throughout IN accordance with IN
structlons laid down by himself were wholly unfOnnded
The Governor was open to all sorts Of questions
relating to Sing sing, but when an effort was made
as a clam. He assured the group about him that
everything perfectly quiet In the political world
and he refused to be drawn into any expression relating
to the chances of Flower Chaplin Jones or any other
supposed aspraDt for the Governorshlp. There were
no changes in the situation whatever, he said, from
which it thought that the slate which bears
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