New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-24
NJ URDERERS PUT TO DEATH.
HERMANN AND PUSTOLKA EXECUTED
FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES
BOTH MEN WENT TO THE CHAIR cAI.M,.y-T,1r

BOTH MEN WENT TO THE CHAIR CAIMIy-TIrE
OPERATION WAS ONE OF THE MOST SIC
CEssFUL EVER HAD AT SING SING
Louis Hermann and Charles PpstoIka tho tyyo
Newly ork wife-murderers paid the penalty az their
GRIMES IN the electric chair at Sing Sing State Prison
yesterday morning Neither man ninched when he
came &c face death and the executions were two OF
the most successful in the history Of the prison
Warden Sage had made preparations for the killing
or the two men with the greatest of care The
chair was fully tested by State Electrician Davis
before the men were brought from the condemned
cells.
Hermann entered the death chamber with firm
step and was escorted to the chair by Chaplain
WE'LL He wore suit of dark blue and In his but
tonhole was white carnatian There was not an
INDICATION OF nervousness on the part of the con-
demned man. When the electrodes were In place he
SAID "Good-by," and almost instantly Dr. Irvine
gave the signal to Mr. Davis There was stnen-
ing or the muscles straning of the leather straps
and the murderer was dead The curren. was
turned on second time. and then the attending
uoctofs were invited to satisfy themselves
mans death had been accomplished
AS in the care Of Hermann Pustoika came from
the condemned cells without tremor although he
was extremely pale and stumbled Fathers John r.
Creeden, Of Sing Sing. and G. Bruder of Pough-
keepsle. conducted the condemned to the chair
IN MS hand Pustoka carried small crucIfx which
ne held until almost the last moment The con-
demned man spoke In German. and his words were
TRANSLATED ''Good-by TO every one" Hardly had
the words left his lips than the current was turned
on. and In an instant he was dead The current was
turned on second time. as in the previous
hermann went to the chair at II l6 o'clock and
al liI'"W the current was turned for the first
time. At ZIG the current was again turned on fo-
five seconds. and at II 81 the man was pronounced
dead
Pustolka went to the chair at Hap At r:4s:2o
the current was applied for fifty seconds. and at
II 44So for five seconds longer. He pronounced
dead at ll:4G
The doctors who performed the autopses were in
the case Of Hermann. Or. William vssmann. of
the Polytechnic Hospital. New-York: DIR. O'Sul-
van. of New-York. and DR. sheehan. of Sing Sing
In Pustolkas case Drs Daland Of the University
of Pennsylvania Brooks OF the New-York Post
mont. officiated.
Louis p Hermann shot his wife through tho
heart and Killed her the afternoon OF July II last
In the apartments of Charlotte Palmer at No 3Ol
East One-hundred and -hfth-st. He had just been
year there. He found his wife and chided her
for not having visited him while he in prison
succeeding day. when he produced revolver and
shot her three times The murderer then went
cut on the stoop Of the building and sat down to
Early. on the morning Of August 2S ,ast. while
his o e op oo of h
No. 5l5 East Thrteenth-st. and procuring long
throat Then he seized her BY the har and dras
gng her to the Kitchen inflicted wound after wound
When the woman died the murderer took from
her dress 500 He washed himself. changed his
who Rad witnessed the Killing he left The house
ca WEN pSs9ka was arrested be was vas found In the
his we "SH Na table sS hcdn nsa
his right hand and when taken into custody told
the officer that he had intended 70 take the lie Of
his stepdauRhter. who was associated with Mrs
Pustolka In the cafe