Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-16
IN THE DEATH CHAIR.
kOrnell 10th Eiectrothanized for the Muir
der of Mrs. Demacsek.

der of Mrs. Demacsek.
DAyNEMoEA, y. Y, Jan. 16.-Kornell 10th
the murderer of Mrs. Demacsek, met death by
electricity at Clinton prison at 11.57 O'Clock
this morning.
One minute from the time 10th had entered
the exec ution room he was ready for the fatal
stroke. As he was being strapped he said
Take it easy
Dr. Ransom. with his watch in his left hand.
raised his right hand, and the state electrician,
with the lever, sent ,725 volts into the victim,
the body stiftered up against the straps almost
impercepuby. and, as i'll accordance with the
new idea, the voltage was decreased, 1t resumed
its normal attitude.
An interval of five seconds elapsed during
which there WAC not the slightest indication of
life, not even q twitching Of the muscles, and
then DIR. Ransom again raised his hand. The
electrician responded and the body stiffened up
against the straps once more. the electrician re-
6ucing the current until finally it ceased. The
physicians then examined the body and de-
clared the man dead, and the murder of de-
fenseless woman was avenged.
The witnesses, after viewing the apparatus
and the victim, repaired to the ante-room.
where they signed the death warrant and the
body was removed to the dssecting room.
where the usual autopsy was held, the general
result being the same az in previous executions.
The official time of execution was as follows:
Entry into death cell. II 40 LIS a. m: tiine
cupied in strapping. thirty-two seconds; length
OF first contact. sixty seconds; interval between
contacts. five seconds; length of second con-
tact. three seconds; entire time victim was i'll
death chamber until death was announced, two
minutes. fftv-five seconds.
The apparatus used was the same as that in
the other state prisons and the same as used in
the electrocution of Wood last summer at this
prison. The only innovation wns the intro
duction OF the dIminution current which the
state electrician believes prevents any muscular
or nervous reaction. 10th has no friends and
his body will be buried i'll quicklime in the
prison burial plot.
KoRSELI. LoTH's CRIME.
In the court of over and tcrmner at Schenec-
tady, \. Y, on the afternoon of Move mber 80,
1892 kOrnel l.. 10th was convicted of the MUIR
der of Mrs. Eta Damacsek. He was sentenced
December 2 TO be executed at Clinton prison,
Dannemora. during the week beginning jan
uary l6. 1888.
The history of the crime for which he was
condemned is as follows:
At midday on Tuesday. June IA, Mrs. Alex
ander Damacseh. a comedy young woman, was
murdered in her house, JOG Rotterdam street.
Schenectady. Her skull was crushed in and
her body received many stabs. Gussie Frisch,
little girl who CHANGED to go to the house,
found the dead woman and at the same time
saw man running out Of the door and up the
street.
n
az the Edison shops when The deed was done,
but he insinuated that john Feltheimer, a
former boarder, had committed it. Feltheimer
was taken before the police justice, but he
proved an alibi, showing that he was working
at the locomotive shops.
Feltheimer set to work as a detective to catch
tho real murderer. lie followed up clues of
which the police knew nothing and then went
down to New York. He told his suspicious at
police headquarters there and Detective Nugent
sist him.
On Friday. July Is, Kornel Z. 10th, a young
Hungarian, was arrested at the brass foundry
of John Williams, 544 West 9th street. He
was charged with the murder.
The following Monday he was brought to
Schenectady.
The day following his arraignment he made a
full confession to District Attorney Naylon and
Assistant Chief of Police Deforest.
In this he said that he was deeply in debt to
to forgive the debt. but to pay him well if he
bat at length consented, and taking the mid
morning of June IA. He went directly to
Damacsek's house.
A plasterer was at work there, so he spent
came she gave him dinner. As soon as the
plasterer went away he rushed upon tho
woman. beat in her head with brass bar he
had brought for the purpose, stabbed her. then
cut her throat. and fled from the house as Gus
sic knocked at the doc.
10th was tweuty-six years of age, q Roman
IA IL nd mn