New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-30
BUCHANAN HAS SOME HOPE.
HIS LAWYERS STILL MAKING EFFORTS
TO SAVE HIM.
PREPARATIONS FOR EXECUTION BY ELEC-
TRICKY -MORROw-ALL ARRANGE

PREPARATIONS FOR EXECUTION BY ELEC-
TRICKY TO MoRRow-ALL ARRANGE
MENTs COMPLETED.
Warden Sage OF Sing Sing Prison. was anxiously
waiting yesterday to hear from the Attorney-Gen-
erals office. at Albany as to whether 1t would be
legal 10 kill Dr. Buchanan In the electric chair to-
morrow morning The Warden's special messenger
carried to Albany the papers which Buchanan S
lawyers served on the Warden Friday afternoon.
These papers included a notice OF appeal from
the decision of Judge Lacombe denying a writ Of
habeas corpus and a protest OF the condemned
mans lawyers against the execution taking place
this week.
Dr. Buchanan remained up until midnight Fri
day writing letters to his lawyers and to his wife.
lie got up at his usual hour yesterday morning,
and the Warden called on him soon after 10 o'clock.
The condemned man still maintained his nerve. al
though the Warden told him that he did not think
there any hope for him. The Warden asked
him II he desired 10 any clergyman. but the
condemned man did not pay much heed TO this
question. and asked If there was any news from his
lawyers. When the latter left Buchanan last even
ing they said they would the Attorney General
and try to convince him that 1t would be illegal TO
execute Buchanan pending the new appeal.
The Warden VIII not allow Dr. Newton. OF this
CITY, TO experiment with his cardiograph, to try to
resuscitate Buchanan. after he has been pro-
nounced dead by the physicians. The Warden says
will strictly follow the law in carrying out the sem
tence of the Court It is intended to use about
seventeen hundred volts to kill Buchanan. DR..
Irvine, who at former executions In Sing Sing
Prison conducted the medical examination after
the current was turned or will act in a similar
capacity In the Buchanan case. Several prominent
physicians from different parts OF the country have
been Invited to attend the expected execution, AMI
to assist DR.. Irvine In making the medical examina-
ton
George W. Gibbons and Arthur c. Butts. the at
torneys who making the fight to keep DR..
Buchanan from death in the electric chair. went to
the office of Commissioner Shields yesterday and
obtained copies of the record in the Circuit Court,
to perfect the appeal they have made TO the
Judge Lacombe, denying them writ or haDeas
corpus
months to perfect their appeal and have the record
printed and this they proposed TO do. just as II the
sa h aG viii 80 sfoy the %
Court and the apPsa no %s sstes what nap
Court should the decision given in the Cir
cult Court the widow of Buchanan could claim
The attorneys waiting Yesterday for some
word from the Attorney Generals office but up TO
other steps be taken in the matter until they
hear how tho appeal has been noticed In Albany.
trial in the General Sessions will be printed with
the other papers in the case. in order to perfect
The preparations for the execution OF DR. Blu
chanan are now complete warden sage Went on
with the preparations yesterday, as though there
WAS no chance that the execution might be stayed
even yet. Buchanan did not give up all nope, put
ne realized that his case was desperate. and that
II he should escape the electric chair for the fourth
time II would he 10y very narrow margin To-day
he wrote several letters which are to be forwarded
to those to whom they are addressed after he Is
dead one Of these is understood to be in the form
OF letter 10 the public, In which he denies that
he caused the Death Of his second wife.
The chair which used when Carlyle Har-
ris was executed and in which six others have sat
while tho death current was sent through them Is
In place In the death chamber at Sing Sing. The
new electrodes were placed in position yesterday
and the whole tested again and again by state
Electrician Davis. Everything worked perfectly.
Mrs. buchanan arrived At the prison last even
ing and remained with her husband until after .
o'clock. when she left to take train. She will
probably b. at Sing Sing again tomorrow. She
seems 10 have but little hope.
The Rev. pr G. O. Hagard. who Is Buchanan 3
spiritual adviser says the condemned man will die
a Christian.