The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-23

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tween the two executions and re-
pairing a wire. The first two muir
derers dropped simultaneous, died in
151a and Is minutes respectively. The
last ones heart ceased to fiutter liz
minutes after he fell through the trap.
At precisely eight o'clock High Sheriff
Henry began the reading of the death
warrants. For some time the Rev
j. w. Wadman and the Rev. Okomotu
and the Rev. Moon had been with the
prisoners. The Rev Wadman knelt
on the stone outside the bars of the
cages and prayed with the doomed
men one after another.
Kang Yong ok was the first man to
whom the warrant was read, Moon in
terpreting. The prisoner listened with
out a word, but his general expression
and demeanor were anything but those
of the callOus indifference to death
which is often said to characterize
Asiatics. He trembled visibly and
his face expressed terror.
While Box was being bound the High
Sheriff read the death warrant to the
who had made the night hideous with
his cries, Sock was a leader in the
crime and kept up an air of bravado till
nearly the end He was broken down
by the time the straps We're fastened
on him and he was supported to the
gallows, where his sufferings added to
the painful scene. The prison officials
and the others who ministered to the
condemned men call him the coward
of the lot, and he was the one APP
parently to go to his death without re-
! ligious consolation.
The Rev. Wadman accompanied both
murderers to the scaffold, also the Rev.
Moon. Wadman offered a brief pray
err, asking forgiveness and mercy for
the condemned and following il with
the Lords prayer.
The two men standing above the
trap through which they were so soon
to shoot did not look at one another.
Sok was helpless and only kept on his
feet by the support of guards on either
side of him. Box in feeble tones eX-
pressed his hope of divine mercy and
then the signal was given and both
the murderers' necks We're instantly
broken by the drop.
Doctors Moore and Pinto attended
Box and Doctors West and Haida
Sock Box was pronounced life
less in 151a minutes from 1921, the time
of the drop and Sock in is minutes.
The bodies were Immediately cut down
other execution
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spent all his time in prayer. He lay
PROSTATE on the mat i'm his cell, face
downwards and never ceased to offer
supplications in tones which We're au-
dible. all over Murderers' Row. When
the high sheriff appeared with the
death warrants, however he rose and
approached the bars and listened while
it was interpreted. The three minis
ters had Joined with him i'm his prayers
and they walked with him to the seat
fold, where the Rev. Wadman again
repeated the Lords prayer
The murderer spoke a few words in
quite firm tones. He desires to say
that he has committed a grievous sin
and that he hopes for divine mercy"
said the minister, after Moon had in
terpreted. Moon continued to pray.
When the trap was sprung the muir
derer fell hike the others and did not
move again The doctors pronounced
him dead in 12h minutes
The last words of the murderer, as
interpreted by the Rev Moon we're
into thy hands l commit my soul"
The night and morning were painful
ones in Murderers' Row, where five
more men await the death sentence.
The cell of Frank Johnson is opposite
that of the three men to whom the
death warrant was read this morn
ing, and Johnson was a pitiful spec
tacle as he crouched on his mat, APP
parently trying to read pamphlet. He
cannot read. His face was nothing
less than CHASTITY and the hunted look
in his eyes was more noticeable than
throughout his long trial. His sentence
is to be carried out a week from to-
morrow, and 1t is the general opinion
of those in charge that he win have to
be carried to the gallows
Aside from the physicians, guards
and press representatives there were
only half a dozen persons present at
the executions All was managed
very quietly and with the utmost dis
cipline, High Sheriff Henry and De-
putty Temple BOurke being personally
in charge. The electric apparatus was
fixed by w. l.. Frazee. The springing
of the trap was by pressing buttons.
Three men pressed buttons at the CIV
ing of a signal and no one OF them