The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-08
IOpPY IN THE DEATH CHAIR.
ayo1HER REyoL11SG SPECTACLE IN
ING SING PRISON

The skin ana Hair Bsrrea a. IN che Former
sases-Movements OF the laps ana tyepns,
from tho Neutrality-suspicious. waraer
8rown says the Exeeution was y sueeess
-nS Chaplain Law Says It Passed OF
Very Nieeiy-Tbe wife Murderer Dies
Like . Coward In state OF Cenapse.
A few minutes after noon yesterday the SOU
NJ Martin d. Loppy. the brutal wife murderer
was sent before It's Maker for final Judgment
Ioppy was tho sixth person to suffer- legal
dcatb by electricity In this State. The execu.
zion was q success. so tho executioners say
hut the witnesses tell OF the same horrible
contortions. the attempts at respiration
after the deadly current was turned
IN. the awful groans and the burning
flesh that they told OF when Kemmler
was killed Mt Auburn and when Slocum
and smilcr and Wood and JuRiro were killed
mt Sing Sing Loppy did not meet his deatlfas
bravely as his predecessors In tho fatal chair.
though he had snid no was anxious to die. He
was more like the cowardly. crinGinR being
that his crime showed him to he. At the last
moment he went to pieces. He had not the
pover to resist Ho had not oven tho nerve to
hold himself erect In the chair while tho end
lees details that Of necessity are part OF the
ont He had to be held in place in the chair
while the straps were adjusted. His eyes
rolled in very terror when tho electrodes that
carried the lightning current into his body
we're adjusted He could not speak. He babe
no one good.by. Bound tightly to tho chair.
no met his death mutely.
Warden Brown Of tho prison had said that
Ioppy's killing should be moro Of success
from scientific point even than had been tho
killings Of tho other four at tho big Sing Sing
prison. Perhaps It was Perhaps the scientific
witnesses enjoyed II. But to the lay witnesses
;twa awful. and they told OF It despite the
ironclnd oath to secrecy that accompanied
and was condition Of the acceptance OF their
invitation to witness tho tragedy.
The witnesses. nearly NIL medical men will
Ing for the sake Of seeing u human being do
to bind thoir lips with tho illegal oath imposed
by the too jealous Warden. began arriving in
Sing Sing carly In the morning. The 1880
train from New York brought number. The
train from Albany. which arrived about the
sumo time. brought more DR.. Carlos McDon-
AID Deputy Coroner jenkins. DR.. Brill.
DR.. HollIston Of Bellevue. and DR.. Van Gieson
arrived together shortly after 8 o'clock.
They went direct to tho prison under
guidance Of Warden Brown. There were then
Londy Of this city. DR.. Samuel Ward Of Albany.
E A. Brown. State prison purchasing agent:
Sidney @. Law. chaplain Of the Tombs; Silas
". Edgurton. the chaplain Of the prison: Z. F.
Davis Of New York. Dr. Spencer Of WATERFOWL.
Dr. Beekman Of New York. DR.. Evans OF Schuy-
lcr. Dr.. ". E. Douglass Of Middletown. DR.. J.
D. Ransom OF Danamora prison. DR.. Hiram
Barlow OF Sing Sing, NJ. G. Ellison. and Drs
Kingston and Ely OF Newburgh.
It had been given out that the execution
would not take place before this morning.
The arrival Of these witnesses was tip for
half the people who live in the town. and.
though the rain came down In sheets. crowd
gathered and fringed the brow Of the hill. at
the foot Of which Is the prison. Their eyes
were set on the Flagstaff that rises high
above the building Just back Of the cupola.
The Warden had promised that the hoisting
Of nag on that pole should announce
the death Of the murderer five minutes after
1t had taken place. Twenty-Five or thirty re-
lporters had gathered in the shelter Of porch
ION the stone building. half way up the hill. op-
posite the prison. They were tired and list
passed.. Not movement could be seen inside
the prison walls eGuards with Etaes consti:
as theS
wished they were anywhere else than In their
nj sso1 sss and s ss aa ssa in
crowd. There was no warning that The tragedy
rest seemed to Settle On every one q ths watch
S Not an eye n tR9 ,s CROWD LEFT that aS
The ropes OPP on which the dag was to DO hoisted
fTS ss41l sss y the exclamation "Thero'
The minutes then each seemed ten. Still
the ag did MT and The feeling Of In
sa es s as souF os
n another moment q black flag appeared
bounced the death Of Wood four months be;
in . fss minutes more the news Of foppy's
s ssa s1 sss.! .as sS S v q tes biz
= iss . sit !sf talk But was
Y. E eth. the others He did the same TWAS
From then until 2 o'clock witnesses contin-
uGa leaving the prison at intervals q few
s S. lhey 81 toia Tie same story, and that
had t. snG r. ts s Thsss
nnnosomYd themselves Finally there were
only ne doctors who were performing the au-
r"' ~" ucy. HtNyeu W u!uo MAtu tu0 war
yen uni did not leave until after 4 o'clock.
IRON IRON tho stories told ~ lay ,yitnesses and
THIS narrative Is made up.
Untn II O'clock all the witnesses wore gath
cred In the prison Office and the. Warden's
f fins The Warden himself and Electrician
Ia; mh'is phd several guards and conyicts were IN
we de.Itli chEinber making final experiments
anN rests with the death machine. The Warden
s s,iiC nom would be the hour, for then tho
WORK ~ tho shops OF the prison would be
~, sio',,ed without attracting comment among
,l,s nris9ners. twas necessary to use nll the
power TINT the PRISONS encines could furnish
la isi,y i i, Jew pntss ard there would b
t mo the office and snid he would be pleased
En ses ~, the gentlemen In the dead
',us" Ihey gathered there, In ten min
, n,rs. Liie experts examined the apparatus.
VIII, MAJ tlc same ueed to Kill the other four
n,'u. lhey agreed that II electricity could
t sitf W successfully used MS means OF legal
ik aalnag the .rparaius would do A. Yet they
, s,snal What happened. repetition of the
T ium"s llnt madc men faint at the death Of
hiIininlef. Men were not to faint here. though.
,mey mud used themselves TO the spectacle
NV only dreaded II. Warden brown. Principal
n nrehef ConnauRhtop. and three assistants
IiAed me straps that were to bind the con-
c ceIrnsd mans body, and then they went to the
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