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Electricity Shocks the Life Gu
of Murderer TIOnDv

Electricity Shocks the Life Out
Of Murderer LOppy.
SING SING, n. Y, Dec MARTIN d.
Loppy. the wife murderer, has paid the
penalty of his crime in the death chair.
The signal, black flag, Indicating that
he had been put to death, was hoisted
on the flagstaff over Warden Browns
house at 12:0S. At that time there were
but few persons outside of the prison.
except the armed men acting as a guard
around the prison and the newspaper
reporters. The latter had kept up
constant vigil. and the first indication
that the law was carried out and LOBBY
sent into eternity was the appearance of
the dismal death signal.
According to Warden Brown, the exc
cution was carried out the same as at
the, time of the killing of the four men
in the same chair in July last. The
warden refused to give any inforna-
ton. except to say that the law had been
carried out and that the execution OF
LUppy was success. Loppy was at
tended in his last moments by Chaplain
Low, OF the Tombs prison, and Chaplain
EdgertOn. of Sing Sing prison. When
LOppy arrived at Sing Sing three weeks
ago he was Sullen ana stiff, but he
gradually changed under the teachings
of ministers. ChaplainS Low and Edger-
ton were with the condemned man when
Warden Brown, accompanied by Princi-
pal Keeper COnnaughtOn. appeared at
Loppy's cage to read to him the death
warrant.
Loppy has more intelligence than any
of the murderers who have been con-
fined in the death honse. He listened
with bowed head. and when the warden
finished the reading the doomed man
was led out of his cage. The little pro-
ceSsion then started for the death cham
ber Warden Brown and Keeper Con-
naughtOn led the way directly ahead of
LOppy, who had to be led by the keep
ers through the dark passageway on ac-
count of his partial blindness. As soon
| as Loppy arrived in the execution room
he was promptly placed in the chair
! and strapped SO that he could not move
hand or foot. While this was being done
the experts, physicians and others pres
ent were grouped about the room in a
| semi-circle.
The electrodes were then applied to
the condemned man, one covering the
forehead and temples, and the other
the calf of the right leg. The electrodes
were moiStened with solution of salt
water before the current was turned on,
and at intervals afterwards. As the
signal was given to the man at the
switchboard to turn on the curreRt. Drs.
Macdonald, Landy and Rockwell stood
near the chair with watches in their
hands to time the respiration and the
beating of the heart.
None of the witnesses would reveal
how Loppy died. 1t is understood that
Lass volts were used, the same as at the
July execution, and that a current of
that voltage was continued from fifty to
sixty seconds. AS soon as Loppy was
pronounced dead the straps which
bound his BODY were removed, and the
dead murderer was carried into the
apartment directly off the execution
room, where an autopsy was held under
the direction of DrS. Macdonald and
Landy. The other physicians were
present, and they all made notes as the
autopsy proceeded.
The crime for which IoDDv SNIFF ed the