Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-06
SING SINGS WORST
Murder Charles McIlvaine is
 Hopelessly Hardened.
INDIFFERENT TO HIS FATE.
He Becomes Furious When Any One Talk
 of His Approaching Death.

Prison Life Evidently Agrees With Hin, For He Has Gained Sixty Pounds Since His Entrance Into the InstitutiOn-Very 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 since, will be killed by electricity in q day or two, Monday perhaps.
 McIlvaine's electrocution will be the first to be witnessed by reporters, and as Warden Brown has sent a 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 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 telegrams, letters and petitions asking Warden Brown to let them see Mcllvaine killed.
 McIivaine remains stolidly indifferent to his approaching death, and treats with scant courtesy the clergymen who have laborcd assiduously to make him appreciate that death is nigh. He has been one of the most unruly, incorriRible and hopelessly hardened prisoners ever in Sing Sing.
 McIlvaine's every desire in the eating. way is supplied, and when he asked for 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 increased in weight sixty pounds since he has been in Sing Sing.
 He 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 McIlvaine 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 in 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. McIlvaine's sister has been most jealous in trying to save his life, and yet he rewards her faithful love with xulgarity aud oaths.
 On her last visit she begged him to listen to the teachings of the priests who call upon him every day, and he replied; "I know my business. Let me alone. Aftes she had gone McIlvaine said to l Keeper Bowling:
 Women make me sick with their ,nivelling, and if she ever tries it on me again I'll never see her no more" His keepers say he has recently become more sullen than ever and that they often hear him grinding his teeth in i'm potent rage. When asked why he did SC he invariably replied 'Sharp'nin' me teeth for more grub"
 Warden Brown asked if he could dc Onything for him.
 Yes" quickly answered McIlvaine, .'let me alone and don't 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 th' l end