The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-09
GOLF LINKS MURDER IS
 EXPIATED IN THE CHAIR
JOHN SoHgDLoESKL, wHo KILLED HIS WIFE, IS
 BLE0TRoCU1'BD.

Most Successful Execution That Has Ever Taken Place at GnarIestoxv,, Mass.--PrisOner i'm Weakened Con-
 ditiOn and Could Not walk From
 Death Cell to Chair Unassssaed-- Makes No Statement--CIasps Crucitix
 fin One of His Hands.
 Boston. July 9.--John Schidlofski Lithuanian of Brookton, was electro cuted at the state prison at Charles town early this morning for the murder of his wife, Marciena, at Belmont July 12, 1905.
 schidlofski was taken to the chair at 12:18 and was pronounced dead at 1928 1-2. The execution was successful in every way, and was unattended by sensational features.
 schidlofski made no statement after he was placed in the chair, but he moaned softly until the current was ap- piled.
 In the opinion of medical attendants and prison officials the execution was l the most successful that has ever taken place at Charlestown.
 l Schidlofski was in a weakened condi- tion and could not walk from his death cell to the electric chair unassisted. He was supported on one side by prison guard and on the other by his spiritual adviser, Rev. Robert Walker, chaplain of the East Cambridge jail, who mur- mured words of consolation into the ear of the condemned man.
 Schidlofski was in a state bordering upon complete collapse. As the con demned man entered the. death chamber he moved in an uncertain manner. His knees shook beneath him, but he ut tered no sound other than protracted moan, which was hardly audible, even in the stiffness of the execution room.
 Chaplain Walker and the guard, who were supporting the prisoner, gently guided him to the electric chair, and Schidlofski seated himself, apparently Euncop5cious of what was going on about him.
 The prison officials quickly adjusted the fastenings. During these operations I SchidlofslSi kept both hands closed and in one ne held tightly a small cruoifix He moaned continually in an almost in audible manner.
 I At exactly 12;1S o'clock Warden 1 Bridges raised his hand as signal to the electrician. The current was ap- l piled, and instantly the body of the murderer sprang forward against the straps. The current had voltage of 1,S00 and was applied for sixty seconds. During this time, however, the inten- sity of the current was gradually de- creased, and at the end of the minute 1t was turned on to its intensity, kept at 1,S0O volts for five seconds and then shut off. The physicians when they made the examination could not detect even the faint pulsations which are gen. erally noticed five or six minutes after the electric current has been applied. Schidlofski was pronounced dead at 1928 1-2.
 The crime for which John Schidlofski was sentenced to die during the week of July was the murder of his wife, Mar elena, on the golf links at Belmont on July 12, 1905 Schidlofski, a Lithuanian by birth, generally went by the name of John Cline. At the time of the murder he worked as a barber in South Brain tree and lived with his wife in Brock ton.
 On July 13, 1905, the terribly m1sliat- ed body of Marciena Schidlofski was found on the golf links at Belmont, a few miles to the west of Boston. I'm woman was identified by means of a slip of paper found in her purse.
 It was known that day or two be- fore the murder the woman had drawn all her savings, amounting to about $S00 from a savings bank A search for the husband developed the fact that he had bought ticket for California. A description of the fugitive was sent out and schidlofsh was arrested few days later on a Pacific coast train at La Junta, Col, and immediately con } fessed his guilt.
 On March II last, after 9 four days trial in the Middlesex county superior ! court at East Cambridge, he was found guilty. His defense was that he had been drinking, that he had no recollec- ton of the crime, and that it was un- l premeditated.
 According to his own story, he killed lhis wife because she had misrepresented her age and the amount of her savings,