The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-06

Richard 3. Leach EIectrocuted nj Sing
sing Penftentfary.

SING SING, n. Y. Aug. 5.-Richard s.
Leach was electrocuted at ll:ls o'clock this
morning. Seventeen hundred volts were
turned into his body and the current was
reduced to three hundred. after which Il
was again raised to LOO and reduced 10
three hundred. The current was turned
on one minute and ffty-seven seconds be-
fore he was pronounced dead
The witnesses entered the death cham
ber at los Electrician Davis then made
the usual test of the electric apparatus
by placing about dozen incandescent
lamps on the chair. He explained that this
was the amount Of current that would be
sent through the condemned mans body.
Warden Sage went to I@each's cell at 1l:lz
and told him that his time had come.
Leach promptly responded: II am glad OF
il. warden. | am ready TO 60" Before ne
started for the execution chamber he
asked Warden Sage TO give him the lock OF
hair OF his dead wife which he had among
his effects when he was brought 10 the
den that he wanted 10 die holding this
lock of hair in his hand. The request was
granted Leach, leaning on the ,...f arm Of
chamber at 11:i5:50. He was very weak
and almost Immediately after he sat down
condition when the fatal shock was turned
on. After the current had been on one
minute and fifty-seven seconds IL was
turned OF and the doctors gathered about
the chair and began TO examine the body
There sign of pulsation or heart
beat and the doctors after c0nferring for
minute. decided that second shock was
unnecessary and pronounced the man dead
The body was then removed from the chair.
Leach killed Mary Hope Newkirk. his
of of the attentions paid to the woman by
her uncle. :. II. Moore. The crime was
committed on Sunday, Nov. Is. 1894. Leach
cutting the woman's throat with knife.
severing the jugular vein. When Leach
saw that he had committed murder he
tried to commit suicide, cutting his throat
with the same knife. After he cut his
throat he wrote on slate that he killed
Mary Newkirk. and also another letter
that he loved her. but before he would al
low another man 10 live with her. he would
kill her. Leach and the woman had been
drinking the night before and both were
intoxicated when the. crime was committed.
slayer. of TWO sherins Captured.
SALT LAKE. L. T.. Aug. 5.-coughlin
ard George, the slayers OF sherirs StaEg
and Dawes, near Echo. on Monday last.
have been captured and are safely behind
the bars in the county jail. These young
desperadoes had successfully eluded the
| officials Of three counties for nearly
week. being engaged in the meantime In
| two encounters at short range. While the
| sheriffs' posses rand the Salt Lake City
| police were securing the country east OF
| this city the two men made their way
| through the lines. stole two horses In the
suburbs on Saturday night and reached
| Toole county on their way west. sheriff
| McKe.lar, OF Tcole county, was notified OF
/ their movements and surrounded them this
morning In Willow canyon. The men were
/ taken By surprise and surrendered without
| fighting or firing shot. They said II was
/ the first. opportunity they had had 10 sur
render without being shot down like dogs.
Attempt In shoot Dprrsnt.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 5.-The first at
tempt TO do violence to Theodore Durrant
on trial for the murder OF Blanche La
mont In Emanuel Church. since his incar-
| ceration was made to-day as the defendant
/ was leaving the court ROOM The prisoner
was In the custody OF the chief jailer when
| a Withholding young man rushed from
the crowd towards Durrant With the evil
dent intention OF assauiting him. The
tailor threw him OF before he could reach
Durrant and the assailant tried to draw
a pistol. He was seized by two deputy
! sheriffs before he could aim his weapon
III Is believed the assailant is insane. A
/ at the morning session OF the court IN the
| person OF II. /. Smythe. retired farmer.
Brutal Assault On q Young Gsrl.
MONTREAL. Aug. A dispatch from
ST. johns says: A shocking assault oc-
CURED In Iberville. opposite here. last week.
Four men brutally assaulted . fourteen