Evening journal., 1895-06-28
DOES ELECTRICITY KILL
Or. Newton Win Try to Make a
Test on DR.. Buchanan.
VILL APPLY THE OARDI0aRAPH.

II the Execution, Now sot FOR the Fourth
Time, Takes Place, ana If the warden
WIN Allow, tho Victim WIN have a
Chance OF Being Saved by Science.
SING SlNG, juno Preparations for
the execution Of DR.. Buchanan arc again
undcr way The invitations wore sent
out for the fourth time summoninR tho
witnesses NJ the prison 10 0attend the DEATH
No papers have as yet been served on
Warden Sage by lawyers for Buchanan.
50 IL would seem tho course Of Buohan-
ans life Is about done But. reiteratine
doubts That have been frequently *.
pressed, there are those who believe ha
win not die in the electric chair but on
the dissectlng table; that the shock win
not kill him, but the surgeons knives
while they make what they cali the post
norton
DIR. Van 6iesen, the pathologlst Of the
New York Gharity hospital, win make the
examination Of DIR. Buchanan's body after
he is taken from the electric chair. DIR.
Van 6ieson made the same examination
Of Hampton, and has since told his stu
dents that he is not certain electricity ag
applied IN carrying out the death SEN
tencc kills.
DR. Van Giesen has verbally invited
DR. r. II Vance Of Randalls island. DIR.
Wendell story of Buffalo and DIR. Robert
Stafford Newton Of New York to be pres
emit at the examination of Buchanan's
body This examination would be here
called as usual post norton or an au-
topsy We're II not for these very doubts
that Buchanan win be dead when It Is
made
To Apply the Cardiograph.
Whether Drs. Vance and Story are there
or not DR. Newton viii be present at tho
examination as the representative Of the
court OF general sessions where Recorder
Goii last fixed the date for Buchanan's
legal taking off, II may be mentioned
that DR. Newton is constantly summoned
to testify as an expert in insanity in the
court Of general sessions and may so tes-
tify today in tho case Of Nino, who Is ao-
cnsed OF numbering his wife. DR. Newton
Is physician on nervous diseases in the
Presbyterian hospital and in the Harrison
Insane home and lectures ON insanity and
nervous diseases Mt the New York Poly
clinic Hospital Medical school He has
been present at electric executions.
DIR Newton studied medicine abroad
and was on the house staff of the London
hospital when DR., Ernest Samson Of that
hospital invented and applied an instru-
mont called tile cardiograph in the early
eighties
70 understand sufficiently well what
the cardiograph Is It Is only necessary 60
say that a mans heart is roughly shaped
like pear, and its pointed end communi.
Gates the hearts pulsations to the walls of
the mans chest. The cardi0giaph is an
piled over this point or apex Of the heart.
70 delicately accurate is this cardiograph
that 10 registers tho fnintest heart beat.
the last heart beat, the heart beat that il
not strong enough 20 send wave OF blood
70 the wrist, whore it is called the pulse;
the heart boat that the trained ear cannot
hear even though the stethoscope the
heart beat that nothing can catch-except
the cardiograph
Dr. Newton win apply this cardiograph
over DIR, Buchanan's heart tho instant he
rs lifted from the electric chair-f he Is
permitted to- IL electricity kills, why
should not DR. Newton be permitted tn
apply this delicate Instruments That is
what ho wants to know Is it lest the car
diogr0ph might rogistcr a faint pulsation
of Dr. Buchanans heart after he has been
pronounced legally and officially dead9
If Il Is found that Buchanan is alive
after being taken from the chair, an at
tempt to restore him win be made.