The evening world., 1903-10-02
"By Order the President of the
United States" Signed to
Telegram Demanding Delay
of the Execution.
DATED WEST POINT STATION.
No Attention Was Paid to the Tele-
gram, but Efforts Are Being Made
to Find Who Forged the Title of
the Head of the Nation.

terd8r TO save the three van "oTrner
boys from the death chair at Dame
mora Prison, Less han half al hour
before the time set for the execution
warden Deyo received the following
telegram:
West p 'int station. Oct. 1903.
George Deyo. Warden,
The Van worn,cr boys must not
he executed to-day. 4 stay has
been granted.
ny order of the President of the
United states.
Warden Deyo at once consulted with
some OF the witnesses present. He con-
cluded that the messare was a forgery.
sent for the purpose OF delaying the eN-
ecutloa beyond tae official day. 1t was
known tina t the President could not in
terfere except through Gov. OdeV. ana
second. that r~eprievc could not DC ac-
cepted by telegrarl, but must oe ny per-
soaal signature OF In personal interview
by telephone.
No further attention was paid to the
communication. but every oHieayor will
be made to nni the sender and prose
cute him or her.
Another incident OF the execution yes
te-day was the susoe1sion OF Keeper
Davis. for selllnE TO certain newspapers
the contents OF personal messages writ
ten by the Van Wormer boys to their
fricnis. o
Bodies Sent to Kinderhook.
The bodies OF Wills. BURTON and
Frederick Van Wo"meT. were shipped
to-day to Undertook In the three pain
pine collins which were made f,r them
In the convict shors Of tho priEt7. At
Undertook thoy will :e tiracd, over
TO the s%tepmother OF the three FOR burial
in the Kinderhook Cemetery.
It the prison this morning there Is
not a sign OF the tragedy that swas
enacted within the walls at nom yes
terday. The convicts about the prison
seem to rave recovered from the sillen
mood they were in at the time of the
electrocutions. ara upon hut three Nof
the inmates OF the prison are the Effects
OF the tragedy strongly market.
These are Allen Mooney. who WIS
the only other OCCUPANT Of the dcTth-
house while the Van wormers were
there. and who was the only person to
whom Burton Van Worner, the last OF
the three to die. said farewell: Mrs.
Kate J. Taylor. who is coademIcl TO
die for the murder of her husband, and
Harvey Bruce. cousin OF tho Van Wor-
mers and their 'conrade in the murder
OF H~allenbeck.
Must Follow Trio.
Mooney stands convicted OF the MUIR
der Of two women at Saranac Lake and
unless the Court OF Appeals should re-
verse the judgment under which he
rests or the Governor should intervene
IN aakn ht1, he n,,at n,n..,a'1y fn1Inuy
the Van Wormers to the chair.
Mrs. Taylor Is condemned to die Tor
a crime which has few, II any. parallels
I'm this State. She was convicted Of
having shot her husband In their home
at Centrcville. Sullivan County. chopped
his body up and burned the pieces in the
Kitchen stove or fed them to the
chickens.
1T Is upon Harvey Bruce that the
effect OF the clectrocutions is most
strongly marked. lie saved his own
life and insured the conviction of his
cousins by turning States evidence. lie
In serving a sentence of eighteen years,
which will be cut down by good con-
duct to eleven years and two mcnths.
His face to-day is drawn and tallld,
and there Is a trembling about she lips
sAhs n HSoNJ 6tldIlt hIbu the
nerves
Warden Deyo, who so admirably
planned and carried to execution the
details OF the e~lectrocutions, has gone
on q trip to the woods to recover from
the strain Under which he has iabored
for the last two weeks.
DR.. Spitzka. the famous brain ansto-
mist WHO performed the operative work
N the autopsies upon the three bodies.
spent the greater part of the night In
an exhaustive study OF the three Trains,
His examination covers lae matters OF
? anatomical form, structural arrange
s msns anq rb other points Of value to
lions Will be published later. He was
assisted In his examinations BY DIR. Mae
n and DIR. Ransom, the prison
physician.
brains All Normal.
speaki1s for, the three this morning,
Or, Macdonald said:
''The results OF the autopsles were en-
ologteal or diseased conditions. for the
44gna,,.nnss and otner bodily organs or these
hthitinR no physical aspects unusual in
NAu formed. well developed. well nour-
TSssSS S %Srs msa II 2 'i tSeir of fe sssIth;
Tsr9 ss5ulsr n normally symmet-
msssy far al n Is could or ik Be dete army ssse; from
gross appearances the brains were en-
tirraly normal. we'll developed anatomic-
az 4nd showed no suggestion OF de-
were carefully, weighed. that OF willis.
5urton slightly less than II ounces.
weighed rather more than Sc ounces
Y was noted before THE autopsy that
gest % the three. and his BRAIN whl,s
unusually large. would have been exe
pected. y for his youth. to be even
I'm the other two cases the hpadns
were slightly below the average in poinf
Of EelEht. . fact to be ACCOUNTED for
fuilest brain development. In n ,nsuoii
I the brain continues to increase n
BULK n weight until about the fortieth