Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-28
DOES ELECTRICITY KILL
DR.. Newton Will Try to Make a
Test on DR.. Buchanan.
WILL APPLY THE oARDIoGRAPH.
IL the Execution. Now Set For the Fourth
Time. Takes Place, and II the Warden
VIII Allow, the Victim win Have a
Chauce of Being Saved by Science.

SING size, June 2S.-PrCparations for
the execution of DIR. Buchanan are again
under way. The invitations were sent
out for the fourth time Summoning the
witnesses to the prison To attend the death.
No papers have aS vet been served ON
Warden Sage by lawyers for Buchanan.
80 il would seem the course of Buchan-
ans life is about done. But, rcitCrating
doubts that have been frequently ex-
pressed, there arc those who believe he
will not die in the electric chair, but on
the disSccting table; that the shock will
not kill him, hut the surgeons knives
while they make what they call the post
norton.
DIR. Van Gicscn, the pathOlogiSt of the
New York Charity hospital, will make the
cXamin.: ION of DIR. Buchanan's body after
he is taken from the electric chair. DIR.
Van Chosen made the same examination
of Hampton, and has since told his stu
dents that he is not certain electricity, AS
applied in carrying out the death son
tCncr. kills.
Dr. Van Chosen has verbally invited
DIR. X. =. Vance Of Randall'S island, DIR.
Wendell Story OF Buffalo and DIR. Robert
Stafford Newton Of New York To he pres
cnt Mt the examination Of Buchanan :
body. This examination would bc here
called aS usual posi- morton or an au-
topSy were il not for these very doubts
that Buchanan will bC dead when Is -
made.
To Apply the CardIoGraph.
Whether Drs Vance and Story arc there
or not, DIR. Newton will bc present at the
examination as the representative of the
court NJ general SESSIONS, where Recorder
Gof last fixed the date for Buchanan =
legal taking OF. 1t may he mentioned
that Dr. Newton is constantly summoned
to testify as an expert in insanity in the
court of general sessions, and may So ties
fifty to-day in the case of \inu who is &C
cusrd uf numbering his wife. Dr. Newton
is u physician ON nervous diseases in the
Presbyterian hospital and in the Harrison
Insane home and lectures un insanity and
nervous diSCaS,s nj the New York Poly
clinic Hospital Medical school He has
been present Mt electric executions.
DIR. Newton studied medicine abroad
and WAS on the house staff nf the London
hospital when Dr. Ernest Samson Of that
hospital invented and applied an in>tru-
mrnt called the carlingraph i'll the early
eighties
To understand sufficiently we'll what
the Cardugraph is il is only necessary to
say that II mans heart is roughly shaped
like pear, and it, pointed end commune
Gates the heart : pulSations Ia the walls "
the mans chest. The CardiuGraph is aP
Piled over this point or apex nt the heart,
- dCliCatTly accurate is this Carlioyraph
| that il registers the faiutrSt heart lSat.
the last heart beat. the heart heat that is
not strong enough IL send wave of hlnnd
IL the wrist, whCrc il Is called the pulse;
the heart hrat that the trained ear cannot
hear even though the Strthn~CUpc, the
heart heat that nothing can Catch-tNrCpt
| the cardiuyraph.
pr. Newton will apply this cardiograph
| ovug Dr. Buchanan'> heart the instant he
is lifted from the electric chair-if he Is
permitted to. If electricity kills why
should not DIR. Newton be permitted to
| apply this delicate instrument? That is
what he wants to know Is it lest the car
telegraph might register a faint pulSation
OF DIR. Buchanan : heart after he has hsTn
pronounced legally and officially dead:
II il is found that Buchanan is alive
after hcing taken from the chair, an at
tempt To restore him viii hr made.