Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-28
GIVEN FOUR SHOCKS.
Electric Execution Of Murderer Cotts
This Morning.
THE KAISER GIVES UP HIS SCHOOL BILL
Another Chicago Scandal Involving
Well-known Names.
INCENDIARIES AT DETROIT.
THE KAISER GIVES UP HIS SCHOOL BILL
INCENDIARIES AT DETROIT.
coTTo PAID THE PENALrr.
Electrocution nj an Italian Ragpicker ~
killing the Husband OF His Paran,ear.


killing the Husband OF His Paranseur.
SING SING, n. Y. March 2s.-At abou, lo,ss
o'clock this morning Jeremiah Cotto. The
murderer OF Louis Frankeloso. Was executed in
the electric chair. This Was the eighth execu-
ton by electricity.
The execution cell adjoining the cells occu-
pied by the condemned men Jus, 10 IL had
been after the execution of McElvaine a month
ago. The char in which McElSeine had -
had been taken from its place and Q new chair
had been built on the same pattern. The only
change made was the addition OF rubber bags
filed with salt water, from which the electrodes
were 20 be kept wetted constantly.
At the last electrocution arrangements were
made to try the method of applying the cleo
trodes suggested by Thomas A. Edison and
other eminent electricians-through the
hands, but the results were unsatisfactory
that DIR. Carlos 4. Macdonald. who hss had
charge of the details of all the executions BY
electricity. thought il best TO return 70 The
form OF application before used at sing Sing
ForR SHOCKS GIVEN.
He took his place in the char without any
signs of failing. The priests knelt in frona o
the death chair and continued praying aloud.
Cotto kept his eyes fixed on the man and COR
tinued to repeat the response while he wss
being tied in the chair. Warden Brown sud
denly dropped a handkerchief and the ey-
| ecutioner turned q switch, applying q currest
| OF over LOO volts. Cotto's body stiffened and
the strap made deep impressions in the skin.
The current was turned of and on four times.
After each application Cotto showed signs of
apparent life, moving his hands and opening hU
| Goes There was no movement of the chest,
| however, as there had been in other cases. At
| the first sign OF life the current was turned on
| again. After the fourth shock. there was no
| signs of life and the doctors declared the man
dead. There was no burning. but steam arose
and there was scaldlng OF the parts where the
electrodes were applied.
corro's CRIME.
The murder for which Cotto died was COM
ritted last July in the outskirts Of Brooklyn.
Cotto and his victim, Louis Frsnkeloso, were
ragpickers- Cotto had been a lover of Mrs.
Frankeloso in Naples, Italy. and after she and
her husband emlgrated to this country she sent
| Cotto money TO follow her.
| He deserted wife and family to Join his
paramour here. He lived with the Frankeiosos
| in a tumbie-down tenement in Brooklyn and he
and Mrs. FranAeloso discussed the question of
putting frankeioso out of the way 30 that they
might maintain their relations without the
husbands 8 interference.
On Friday night Frankeloso started out 70
steal vegetables from the eighboring farms and
was stealthily followed by Cotto. Upon lonely
road side Cotto came upon his victim, aud with
savage fury stabbed HIM no less than fourteen
times Frsnkeloso left lying dead in tins
road. Cotto returned to the Frankeloso home,
and standing before the woman he had
widowed licked the blood from the knife with
which he had committed the deed.
They were arrested, and Superintendent
Campbell Of the Brooklyn police got from Mrs
Frankeloso a confession duplicating Cotto, and
then from Cotto duplicating Mrs. Frankeloso
The woman Is now IN Raymond street jail await
ing trial.