Evening star., 1899-03-17
TO KILL MRS. PLACE
Arrangements in Detail for Execution
Of the Murderess.
FEW SPECTATORS TO Be PRESENT
Female Doctor and Woman At
tendant to Be With Her.
SH E SEEMS RESIGNED

NEW YORK. March 17.-warden Sage Of
ollg sing prison will send out some time
today the invitations to the witnesses who
VIII he present at the execution OF Mrs
Martina Place for the murder of her stem
daughter. Ida Place. The law does ,o,
permit the warden to make public In ad-
vance the time fixed for CARRYING ott the
death sentence. but II is generally under
stood the execution Will occur ON Tuas,la,
at about IL am.
Inc warden said today THAI Mrs Place
had passed quiet night and seemed to he
resigned. She has now given up all hone.
and when her spiritual adviser. Rev. pr.
Co.e Of lonkers. left her last evening she
assured him that she would place her tr-lst
in God.
Mrs. Place has had but little appetite
since she learned Gov. Roossvclt's decision
Yesterday that the law would have to take
its course and she ate Sparngly Of the
breakfast which was sent TO her apart-
ments this morning
Expects Visit From Brothcr.
she expects visit from her brother. who
liNeS in New Brunswick ana he may CONS.
TO the prison on Sunday. Her husband she
does not speak of. Since she has been N
prison she has written him several letters.
none OF which he has answered She also
wrote a number of letters 10 her fifteen
year-old son. who is adopte,l in !, far,i',, in
Newark. The boy has not answered any
OF the letters. although his foster parents
allowed him to visit his mother after her
/ arrest for the murder in Brooklyn.
MIS- Place, while her ease was panding
before the governor. wrote him three lei
ters appealing 10 him 10 save her aud in
one OF the letters she asked for a pardon
by order OF Governor Roosevelt the exc
cutlon or Mrs. Place Will be conducted as
privately as possible. There will be present
only the required number Of doctors in
Guiding one female physician. the warden's
deputies woman attendant for Mrs.
Place, who Will adjust the elcrtrodc at tn.
leg ana limited number Of newspaper
men. possibly but TWO. The warden has Sc
cured n woman who will attend Mrs Place
as she Is strapped in the chair.
The removal of hair from the back
of the womans head where the eIectrode
must be placed viii probably not be done
until everything Is prepared for the execu-
! ton and just before she is taken from her
cell to the execution chamber.
PerpIexing Question Arises.
The most perpieNing question which has
confronted the warden is how 10 get Mrs
Place from her apartment in the old hos
pital building TO the execution room. Ac-
cording 10 the present plan the condemned
woman after leaving her room in the east
ern part OF the hospital building will have
to Walk through two adjoining rooms. de-
scend two flights OF stairs to the kceper's
room. then proceed south through the. oil
kitchen to the principal keepers office and
thence along the corridor in front of the
dark cells to the iron doors leading into
the death house. where four condemned
murderers are confined.
when these doors are thrown back Mrs
Place will face the cages occupied hy the
condemned murderers, but they will be
shut out from View by curtains hung across
the front of the cages. The condemned wo-
man viii have only few yards further 10
go to pass through another SET of iron
doors into the execution chamber