Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-08
title ELECTR0CUTI0N.
III Is Unanimously Pronounced a
Success.
DEATH COMES LIKE A FLASH.
There I8 an Awful Shock
and Then Oblivion.
THE PASSING AWAY PAINLESS.
Comparison Of the 0uadrupie Execution
with the killing Of kemmier-No
hitch Anywhere ia tho
Proceedings.

81
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g i'rc ihis morning. me "pii i.''.'' ''''',
H. fhe turning ou IT the current IN cacH
g. was Slscum. $40: Smilcr, 5.IO.
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"a tX.rnfi.U-rhs.r brayelv au1 met theii
.ffnfr without q struggle. 1hev offered 10
- -.-t.rr. DIf rather assisted IN" Keepers
80 l.r fO-v HtiC bound down in the chhir'
"a an fircfr.frt were Mt apphei ~ Inc
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"a 1e hs.c oi tlH spine. hut were bound -
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'3Ii. voltage Vae about 1900 and 1000.
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4,f..i. tlD statement that tho electrodes
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