The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-30
EXECUTED
AT AUBURN
Sir Shocks Needed to Kill Negro
Murderer Frank White.
DR. STEIN PAINTED AWAY.
After Fourth Application of Current
Victim Made Noise, but EIec-
triefan Davis Says Man
Was Then Dead.

Auburn, N. Y, Dec. 3d. Contrary to
all predictions, Frank White, the coli
ored Oswego county murderer, walked
to the chair without making any DEM
onstration and was officially pronounced
dead after six separate contacts Of
1,740 volts, ~ amperes, had been adj
ministered. Aside from the numerous
contacts necessary the only unusual
feature Of the electrocution was the
swooning Of DR.. Ulysses B. Stein Of
Buffalo, who was carried from the room
limp and unconscious.
White entered the death chamber sur
rounded by keepers, who were prepared
for any emergency. He looked ugly
His complexion was Of muddy yellow
hue His eyes were not once lifted
from the floor He was unattended by
any clergyman, although the chaplain
was with him during his last hours in
his cell. White would not make the
slightest response to his pleas for peni-
tenee. Not word nor a moan issued
from White in the death chamber until
after the fourth contact when strange
gurgling In his throat made the physi-
clans step back and Mortified the spec
tators. The contact was quickly re-
peated, but still the stethoscopes re-
corded cardiac action, and two more
contacts were given. During the sec.
ond contact the head electrode flashed
brilliantly, and there was an odor Of
burning hair. The executioner seid it
was the sponge beneath the electrode.
He adjusted it more tightly before the
next shock
Or. stein Faints.
Among those who made test with
the stethoscope was DR.. Stein, and he
reported that the heart had not ceased
to beat When he had resumed his seat
in the front row and the fifth contact
had been turned on he suddenly pitched
forward and fell headlong to the stone
floor, almost through the door of Elec-
trician Davis cabinet. Principal Keep
er Upper had shouted, "Catch himg
but too late. All eyes were diverted
from the man In the chair to the pros
trate form Of DR.. Stein until he was
picked up by three keepers and was
carried bodily from the death chamber
He soon revived and came back after
the victim had been pronounced dead.
Electrician Davis explained the CUR.
81 ing In Whites throat by saying that
be held his breath for few moment,
before the first contact, and 1t was sim
ply the air escaping from his lungs
He asserted that White was no doub
! practically dead after the first contact.
The crime for which White has pait
| the penalty was committed on Sunday
Sept. Is, 1901 He enticed his employ
er. George Glare, farmer of Serbia
0swego county, into cornfield upoi
the pretext that the cows We're in tn,
corn. and while his back was turned h
deliberately fred several bullets int
his body until he fell to the grount
dead Stealing his wallet, White trans
ferred the contents to his own pocket
and then, together with his revolver
hid the wallet under stump. Whit
fled to Oswego, but some Fascination
drew him back to the scene Of the muI
der. where he was arrested. Soon aft
erward be confessed and guided th
sheriff to the place where he had hid
den the wallet and revolver.
/ White was the nineteenth victim 0
the chair at Auburn.
After the autopsy the surgeons II
ported that Whites brain was in a pei
fectly normal condition.