Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-17
BY ELECTRICITY.
ANOTHER NEW YORK MURDERER SUCCUMBS
TO THE SUBTLE FLUID.
Kornsll 10th, the Murderer Of a COmely Young
Married Woman, Executed at Dannemora
Prisn-A History Of the Crime
for Which Hs Died.

DANNEMoRA, n. Y. January 10
Kornel 10th, the murderer Of Mrs.
Alexander DemacSek, met death by
electricity at Clinton prison at lI;9'
o'clock this morning.
The condemned man slept we'll last
night and arose early to attire himSeiI
ia the clothing prepared for him 20 ale
in. Breakfast and devOtions with TWO
French priests occupied his time until
called to prepare for death. 10th
walked firmly to the death chamber,
where the now familiar fixtures for exc
cutlOn was In readiness.
He kpelt down facing the chair and
murmured a few broken words OF
PRAYER, the priest raising him and KISS
ing him. The priest murmured few
words of consolation as 10th sat down,
and. more quickly than can be told, the
guards adjusted the straps, and one
minute from the man had entered the
room he was ready for the fatal stroke.
As he was being strapped, he said:
s.Take 10 easy" DR.. Ransem, with his
watch in his left hand, raised his right
hand and the State electrician at the
lever sent .725 volts into the murderer.
The body Stiffened up against the straps
almost impereepti0ly, and as In accord
ance with the new idea the voltage was
decreased il resumed its normal attl-
tude. An interval OF i've seconds
elapsed, during which there was no In
dication OF life. Again the current was
applied. the body stiffened up against
the straDs, once more the electrician
reducing the current until II finally
ceased and the man was dead.
The history Of the crime for which he
was condemned is as follows;
At MIDI on Tuesday, June II, Mrs.
Alexander Demacsek, a cOmely young
women was murdered In her house, lO6
Rotterdam street, Schenectady. Her
skpU was crushed In and her body re-
ceiyed many stabs. GuSsie FTlsch, a
little girl who CHANGED TO go to the
house, found the dead woman and at the
same time saw q man run out OF the
door and up the street. The murdered
woman's husband was at work at the
Edison shops when the deed was done,
but be lnSinuated that John Felthelmer,
a former bcarder, had committed II.
Feltheimer was taken betOr the police
Justice, but he proved an abb. Then
Feltheimer set TO work as detective
IN catch the real murder. He followed
ND clews OF which the police knew moth
ing and then went down TO New York.
He told his suspicious at pOlibe head
ouarters there and Detective Nugent OF
the Mulberry street force was detailed
to assist him. On Friday July IS, kor-
mel Z. 10th, q young Hungarian, was
arrested at the brass foundry OF John
Williams, 544 West Twenty-seventh
street. He was charged with the murder.
The following Monday be was brought
to Schenectady. The day fOllOwiL g
his arraignment he made full confess
sin TO District Attorney NaylOn and
Assistant Chief OF Police DeFOrest. In
tGIs'he said that he was deeply In debt
to Alexander Demacsek, who promised
not only TO forgive the debt, but to pay
him well II he would kill Mrs. Demac-
SEX. He refused az first. but at length
consented, and taking the midnight
train from New York, arrived here on
the morning OF June IA. He went di
rectly to DemacSek's house. A plasterer
was at work there, so he spent the morn
ing with the woman, and when no one
came she gave him dinner. AS soon
as the plaSterer went away, be rushed
upon the woman, beat in her head with
brass bar he had brought for the pur-
pose, stabbed her, then cut her throat
aud fed from the house as GusSle
Knocked at the door. Demacsek was
arrested on the strength Of Loth's
statement, but the grand jury refused
TO lndlct him, and he was discharged
from custody. 10th afterward acknOwl-
edged that his confession was untrue.
10th was 90 years Of age, Roman
Catholic, and unmarried.