The daily sentinel., 1907-01-14
Just at 1928 O'Clock Saturday Night Nc
Garvey Was Launched Into Eternity
HE FACES DEATH CALMLY
The Execution Carried Out Without Hitch-hurderer
Suspended in the Air Twenty Minutes--Died with
Sweethearts Picture Over His Heart
Remains Buried in the Con-
vict's Cemetery.

voice. He then took one last lool,
at the trap and at the gallows.
A moment later guided by the
guards McGarvey took his stand on
the iron trap or plate which is set
almost on a level with the floor and
which is connected underneath with
valve to a five-gallon tank of wat
er in a closet. where the death ma
chinery is stationed.
The moose was adjusted and even
it's awful presence did not cause Nc
Garvey to lose the least iota of his
calmness or nerve. The black capI
was then adjusted.
Just at 7:2S the warden gave a sig
nal and the automatic hanging MAJ
chinery was put in operation. AS soon
as all the water had hecn released
from the tank the automatic trigger
was lifted the great iron weight in
| the closet was released, and the death
plate with Mo5arvey ctaEding there
on was shot into the air, the plate
shot back into place but the prisoner
hung suspended in the air being given
terrible jerk as the slack in the
rope was taken up by the pulleys.
For eighteen minutes the body was
allowed to hang. Then DR.. Thadd
Parker, of this city. and Prison ply
sician. DR.. F. N. Carrier, pronounced
McGarvey dead and two minutes later
the body was cut down and placed
upon a table in the death room and
there the official autopsy was held
by Drs. Parker and Carrier. The
physicians believe that McGarvey was
wead within four minutes after the
trap had been sprung.
| There were no hirrible contortions
of the body. In fact the execution
throughout was marked by no unusu-
al features.
While the body was suspended in
the air the official witnesses signed
the proof of the execution and death
certificates.
The autopsy proved that McGar-
veys heart and brain were normal
! and indicated that had the man had
, the proper home training and not as
sociated with bad companions he
would doubtless have been a good
man. He was not physical degen-
crate.
From the time that the witnesses
of the execution entered the death
room until McGarvey was dead not
more than twenty minutes elapsed.
Everything moved off quickly, sys-
! tematically under Warden Cleghorn's
directions. There was not a mis-step
or an error made anywhere. This
was the thirteenth execution that
Warden Cleghorn has conducted at
Canon City.
| BY eight o'clock practically all evil
dences of the execution had disap-
peared, in fact none of the prisoners
and but few of the guards knew when
the execution was taking place,
DR.. Parker and sherifr Schrader
left the same night for home. They
did not see McGarvey until they en-
tered the cell house at the hour of the
execution. In the death room he did
not recognize them.
Yesterday morning the remains of
the murderer We're buried in the con-
vlct's cemetery on Smelter hill in the
rear of the prison. Should the body
be claimed by relatives it will be at
once turned over to them. This,
however. is not likely as all had de-
serted McGarvey.
| McGarvey, it is said appeared very
much at the last hour as he is shown
in the picture published in the Sen
tinel Saturday night. He had not
been shaven for several days. He
was very pale as a result of the long
confinement. He wore dark clothes
and negligee shirt and pair of new
patent leather shoes.
Il Those who witnessed the execution
were Sheriff Nlsbit. Under Sheriff
Thomas Beard and Former County
Clerk Albion Vickery. all Of Denver;
Sheriff Joseph Esser and Under Sher
ih John Cheterlat of Fremont county;
Otis Orendirf of Canon City, Warden
James Cleghorn, Deputy Warden AL
len Jamison. Father Lochschmidt of
he Canon City Catholic church; DR..
.. n. Carrier. the prison physician:
Dr.. Thaddeus Parker of Grand June
ion. who acted as surgeon; A. r
l Trishe, chief clerk of the penitentiary
l Ssheriff Schrader of Grand Junction
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