The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-02
VAN WORKERS MEET DEATH
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While this was going on Father Char
 bonneau remained in the corridor be- tween the death cells, reading prayers and invocations to the two remaining Van Wormers. Every precaution had
 been taken to prevent the remaining
 men from learning more than the de- parture of their brother from the room.
 The doors had been padded and the in-
 terstices stuffed with cotton so that the
 steps of those who removed the body
 from the death chamber could not be heard. 5. ~--..
 The picture of nonehalance was Fred
 erick M., the youngest brother, who was
 brought next from the cell room. Like
 his oldest brother, he walked fearlessly into the room, accompanied by the
 faithful priest and thanked by keepers.
 but his step was easier and more vigor- our. He also carried a crucif1x strong ly in his right hand and looked upon it
 reverently, but his eyes strayed to meet those of the warden and he looked fear lessly at the witnesses. Seated in the
 chair he watched the keepers lasted first his right arm, then the left, until his head was pulled back for the strap which passes over the forehead and for the fixing of the electrode. #I It was 11:40:30 a. m. when he entered the death chamber, and but scant thir-1 ty seconds after that when the current was applied and his body stiffened against the straps. Only two applica-
 tfons of the full current was deemed
 necessary. and two minutes from the time he crossed the threshold of the
 room the doctors pronounced him dead. Like that of his brother his body was carried out into the prison morgue, and the summons for the last brother was taken back by the guards. Father Be-
 ranger went with them, and when Bur- ton Van Worn1er was brought into the presence of death he was accompanied l by two priests, Father Crabonneau hav- l ing no further need to remain In the. icell room, which the last Van Wormer was leaving.
 Burton crossed the threshold at 11.47 as firm of step as either of his brothers, his crucifix clutched in his right hand,
 the fingers tightly wound about the | arms of the crosspiece, his arm held
 down in front of his body. He looked
 not upon it, but straight in front of l him. X l He did not look at the witnesses, but l the moment he was seated in the chair fastened his eyes upon the face of Father Charbonneau, and kept them there until the guards began to bind l the straps over his face. Either he was taller than his brothers, or sat up
 straighter in the chair, for the strap which is intended to cover the eyes did not reach high enough to blindfold him,
 and as the current was switched on he i was still looking over the upper edge of the strap toward teh priest.
 He was killed even more quickly than the other two The current was turned on at 11:47:30. Only one application was required, though it was retained
 slightly longer at full pressure than in the other cases.
 l The entire time consumed in the exc cution of the three men, including their walk from their cell doors, the removal of the two bodies and the readjustment of straps and electrodes was but fifteen and a half minutes, and but for the care taken in examinations by the at tending physicians it would have been eevn more expeditions. To strap Will l lis into the chair required fifty-four
 seconds, in the case of Fred it was fifty
 seconds, and in that of Burton fifty-tWo l seconds. .s9
 I In the case of Willis, the current was on in the three contacts for sixty sec I onds, in that of Fred, with two con tacts, one minute and five seconds, in Il that of Burton, with but one contact, l one minute. and thirteen seconds, so that the actual time consumed in exc
 cutting the three men was. five minutes j and fifty-four seconds.
 I Dr. Macdonald and Dr. Spitzka, who have attended many executions, were unanimous in declaring 1t an extraordi-
 narily humane and expeditions execu- ton of the law.
 Father Belanger said after the exc