The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-06
SING SINGS WORST
Murder Charles McIlyaine is
HOpelessly Hardened.
1NDIFFERENT TO HIS FATE
He Becomes Furious Whom Any One Talk
Of His Approaching Death,

Prison Life Evidently Agrees with Him,
For lie Has Gained sixty Pounds since
His Entrance Into the Institutiun-Yer,
Dainty About His Food-The First
Electrical Execution Reporters Have
Had the Privilege of witnessing.
SING SING, N. Y, Feb. 6.-Murderer
Charles McIlvaine, who butchered Grocer
Luca in Brooklyn about two years sihce,
viii be killed by electricity in a day or
two, Monday perhaps.
Mcllvaines electrocution will be the
first to be witnessed by reporters, and as
Warden Brown has sent II letter to each
of those who are booked to see the exc
cution, notifying them to be in the prison
before 10 O'Clock Monday morning, it is
believed that the execution will take
place within twenty-four hours there
after.
Anticipating the opening of the electri-
cal executions to newspaper men, two
thirds of the editors and reporters be-
tween the Adirondacks and the metropo
lis have sent in kilograms, letters and
petitions asking Warden Brown to let
them see McIlyaine killed.
hclivaine remains stolidly Indifferent
to his approaching death, and treats with
scant courtesy the clergymen VINO have
labOred assiduOusly to make him
appreciate that death is nigh. He has
been one OF the most uuruly, incOrrigible
and hopelessly hardened prisoners ever i'll
Sing Sing.
McIlvaine's every desire in the eating
way is supplied, and when he asked for
a fresh mackerel yesterday morning one
was brought from New York for him.
He sleeps nine or ten hours every night
and that prison life agrees with him is
proved by the fact that h9 has increas ed
in weight sixty pounds since he has been
in Sing Sing.
lie reads the newspapers, but his chief
amusement is cutting figures out of
colored paper Red, green and blue imi-
tations of beasts, birds and men adorn
the walls of his cell
Although Mcllvaiue is not at all cast
down by the near approach of death,
he becomes furious when any one but
the clergymen refer to it. The Rev
Fathers Creeden and Smyth visit Nell
vaine daily, but their kind offices ju the
main have been rudely repulsed.
When his wife visited him she was
forced to cut her visit short because of
his profanity and abuse. She will not
visit him again. McIlyaine's sister has
been most Jealous in trying to save his
life, and yet he rewards her faithful love
with vulgarity and oaths
On her last visit she begged him to
listen 70 the teachings of the priests who
call upon him every day, and he replied;
II know my business. Let me alone
Aftes she had gone McIlvaine said to
Keeper bowling:
"Women make me sick with their
sniveiling and if She ever tries it on me
again L II never see her no more, -
His keepers say ne has recently become
more sullen than ever and that they
often hear him grinding his teeth in inn
potent rage When asked why he did so
he invariably replied: Sharp p'nin me
teeth for more grub.
Warden Brown asked if he could do
onything for him.
Eyes, quickly answered McIlvaine,
'Iet me alone and don bother me- ~
He knows that he will meet death
some time between Monday and Satur-
day next, but never refers to the subject
The keepers think he will fight at the
end.