Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-29
WHITE GIVEN SIX SHOCKS.
The Colored Murderer Pro- nounced Dead at 6:32

Making Any Demonstration--On
 of the Attending Physicians Swoon-
 ed and Was Carried from the Death
 Room Uncopscious.
 Auburn N. Y., Dec 2o.--Contrary to all predictions, Frank White, colof- ed, who murdered his employer George Glare, k farmer of Oswego county, walked to the chair without making any demonstration this morn ing and at 6:30 o'clock was pronounc- ed dead This was not until six sep arate. contacts of 1.74O volts, 71a am- heres had been administered. Aside from the numerous contacts necessary, the only unusual feature of the elec- trocution was the swooning of Df TJlysses B. Stein. of Buffalo, who was carried from the room unconsc1ous.
 | White entered the death chamber surrounded by keepers who were pre- pared for any emergency. He looked ] 11glN. His complexion was or muddy yellow hue. His eyes were not once lifted from the floor. He was un- attended by any clergyman, although inc chaplain was with him during ms last hours in his cell. White would not make the slightest response to his nlaas for nenitence. Not a word is- sued from White while in the death chamber until after the fourth con- I tact. when a strange gurgling i'll ms throat made the physicians step back and mortified the spectators. The contact was quickly repeated but .I still the stethescopes recorded cardiac action, and two more contacts were
 niven. During the second contact the
 head electrode flashed brilliantly anu there was an odor of burning halr.
 The executioner said 1t was the sponge
 beneath the electrode. He adjusted IL
 more tightly before the next shock.
 Among those who made test WlLn
 the stethoscope wds Dr stein ana ne
 reported that the heart had not ceaseu
 to beat When he had resumed hls seat in the front row and the fifth con- . tact had been turned on ne suodeniy ; pitched forward and fell headions so { the stone floor. almost throusn tne ! door of Electrician Davlss caolneL , Principal Keeper Tupper had snouIeu Catch him. but too late. All eyes
 were diverted from the man III tne
 chair to the prostrate form or -
 Stein until he was carried rom tl't
 death chamber by keepers. lie sool 2 revived and came back after tue Nic
 tim had been pronounced dead.
 Electrician Davis explalheu .h, curgling in Whites throat oy, sayihs ' that he held his breath for rev lho :.
 ments before the first contact anu .
 was simply the air escaping 1roin nl'
 lungs. He asserted that Whlte Wa ,, practically dead after the nrst coii 5 Etact : Brutal and quarrelsome by nature E White had been dangerous degeheI $ ate for several years He was nos, ', @ in St Lawrence county anu was - t Iyears old. His mother was Wllte m aiA' f his father was negro. tie learne, g the trade of barber. but urea ol u
 moved to Oswego where he Wofkee
 livery stables for several years peioi
 irving farming. While thus employ
 cd he twice attempted murder. II l- crime for which he was eAecuteu lo 1T day was committed on Sunda!, oel s temter 1J, 1901. He enuced HIS ell II blower, George Clare, farmer e Serbia. Oswego county, into q corr a field and, while his back was turne' !. shot him in the back, killing nm.
 White then ronDed HIS NlNCin ~"
 fled to Oswego, but some fasclnatlo
 drew him back to the scene or LII h. murder where he was arrested al, le confessed. He attempted 10 lmpi er cate the wife of his victim m LII a murder. He kept his watchers Ill SUI r. nense during the last days in the co ,d 1idor for the condemned, by his VI
 lent attempts to sham insanity. Ii
 ran amuck in the narrow confines
 his cell on the day before ChYstma
 smashing everything breakable, all of was only subdued after the prise IS hose had been turned on him for IT. nnarter of an hour. He was afte tt ward kept in irons and his watt D. doubled. White cared nothing for T ae, urion. Neither friend not relatl'
 has inquired for him during his tV
 years in prison.