The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-17

DAsyEMoRA, N. ", Jan. l6-Kornel
10th, the murderer OF Mrs, Alexander
Demacsek, met death by electricity AT
Clinton prison at ll'57 o'clock this
morning.
The history OF tho crime for which he
was condemned is as follows;
AT midday on Tuesday, June IA, Mrs.
Alexander Demacsck, comely young
woman, was murdered in her house,
100 Rotterdam street, Schenectady. Her
skull,was crushed in ind her body re-
ceiyed many stabs, Gussic Frisch,
little girl who CHANGED to so to the
house, found the dead woman and at
thesame time saw q man run out OF tho
door and up the street.
Tho murdered woman's husband was
at work In tho Edison shops when the
deed was done, but he insinuated that
John Feltheimer. u former boarder, had
! committed il. FelthelmeF was taken
before the police Justice, but he proved
an alibi. Then Feltheimer set to work
as q detective to catch the real mar
derer. He followed up clews ot'which
tile police knew nothing and then went
down TO New York. He told his sus-
plcions Mt police headquarters there,
and Detective Nugont, OF the Mulberry
street force, was detailed TO assist him.
on Friday, July 10, Kornet u. 10th, n
young Hungarian, was arrested at tho
brass foundry OF John Williams, GA
West Twenty.seventh street. lie was
charged with the murder. The follow
ing Monday he was brought to sche-
nectady,
The day following his arraignment
he made q full confession to District
Attorney Naylon and Assistant Chief
OF Police De Forest In this lie said
that no was deeply in debt to Alexan'
der Demacsek, who promised not only
to forgive the debt, but to pay him we'll
il ne would kill Mrs. Demacsek. Ho re-
fused at first, but at length consented,
aud taking the midnight train from
New York arrived here on the morning
oil June II. He went directly to De.
,nscsek's house. A plasterer was at
work there, so he spent the morning
with tho woman, and when noon came
she gave him dinner. AS soon as the
plasterer went away lie rushed upon
the woman, beat in her head with
q brass bar he had brought for tho pur-
pose, stabbed her, then cut her throat
and fled from tho house Us Gussie
< knocked ut tho door
Demacsek was arrested on the
strength OF Loth's statement, but the
grand Jury refused to indiCt him and
: he was discharged from custody.
10th atterward acknowledged that
his confession was untrue.
10th was twenty.six years OF age, a
Roman Catholic and unmarried.
Tho condemned man slept we'll last
night and arose early to attire himself
in the clothing prepared for him to die
in. Breakfast and devotions with two
Trench priests occupied his time until
called to prepare for death. 10th
walked firmly to the death chamber,
where the now familiar fixtures Tor
executions were in readiness.
He knelt down facing tho chair and
murmured a few broken words OF
prayer, the priest raising him and kiss
ing him. The priests murmured q few
words OF consolation rs 10th sat down,
and more quickly than can be told tho
guards adjusted the straps and in one
minute the man 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 tho state electrician at the
lover sent 1,725 volts into the murderer.
Tho bndYstitIened up against the straps
almost impsrceptibly, and, as in accord.
ance with the new idea, the voltage was
decreased, it resumed It's normal atti-
tnde. An interval Of five seconds
elapsed, during which there was no in
dication Of life. Again tho current was
applied, the body stiffened up against
the straps, once more the electrician re.
ducing the current until finally it
ceased and tho man was dead.