The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-07-11

and chin, but the skin exposed to view
| turned a purple red The spectators
drew about the chair, standing on the
rubber mats for safety, and the physi-
cal phenomena presented.
SIGNS OF LIFE AND ANOTHER SHOCK.
The seconds passed slowly, how many
of them is not known, hut III less than a
minutes space there came between the
lips Of the rallid face hanging in the
death harnI SIS rush of air which whis-
tied between the half clenched teeth
aud ended in half sigh half groan.
OnIy once did the lungs seem to contract.
Quickly as d.. Mcdonald could raise
his hand to give the signal the electric
ian threw the switch, the electric cerrent
rushed through the circuit and the body
10 the char stilfened again against the
straps.
QUICK WORK OF sMILER
Smiler did not hesitate when told that
his hour had come, but when the death
chair appeared before him he almost fell
to the floor. His knees knocked toge-
ther, and bnt for the support of his
spiritual advisers he would certainly
have collapsed. Warden Brown quickly
read the death warrant and Smiler was
hastily seated in the chair. His face
took on q CHASTITY hue and Conuaughton
got DO assistance from this victim.
The straps were adjusted, again the
white handkerchief fell, the switch was
turned and the straps frightened under
the strain OF taut muscles as the current
shot through the body. The contact in
this case, as in the others, with perhaps
almost inapprecable variation, was 20
seconds. The current measured some
l, 500 volts. At the end of the 20 seconds
the current was turned off, but only for
minute. The chest of the man in
the chatr began to heave and the current
was turned on once more, until, as in the
case of SlCcum, it burned the flesh,
Then it was shut off again and, after a
delay which showed that there was no
strapped and taken from the chair to the
autopsyroom adjoining.
THE CoLoRED MANS TURN.
Wood had been prepared by Fathers
Creeden and Lynch while Smiler was
going to his death and he was all ready.
He uttered no word when his time came.
He walked to death supported by the
priests. Wood betrayed no emotion
when he gazed on the chair, but kept
down in the chair diffidentlv and his
binding was accomplished quickly.
The first contact in Woods's case, as
in the others. did not seem to be final
and it needed second, continued until
the flesh was singed. to satisfy the ply
sicians that the man was dead. In KEN
mler's case the burning of the body was
ascribed in part to the fact that the
sponges were wetted constantly.
THE JAP COMES LAST.
Jugiro at first refused to leave his cell,
but when Mr.. Connaughton said Come
on, joe, be brave man," the Jap walk
ed out quietly. Two additional keepers
marched, one on each side of the Jap,
while the chaplains followed behind the
warden and his deputy. The Jap bad
not seemed 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 accomplished. The current was
allowed to remain in the Japs body
about three seconds longer than the
contact with the three others. The first
contact did not destroy all appearance of
life and the second burned the flesh.
Six balls we're struck as signal to the
electrician in the dynamo room that all
was over, and the W illnesses returned to
the war. ems room.
The entire time consumed in executing
the four men was an hour twenty three
aud ore-ha If minutes.