The evening world., 1912-01-08
l7MANCAN0 DIES
CHAIR; KILLED
ONLY DAUGHTER
] Sheriff Hamburger Witnesses
\. Execution and Is Convinced
Electricity Kills.
i'IS HUMANE
4 Former Interpreter in Marriage
\ License Bureau Shot Girl
81 in Street.
us HUMANE

OasfNING. ". y. Jan. g. Philip
iAfssgano. formerly interpreter In tho
Marriage License Bureau In New York,
was eiectrocuted In sing Sing prison ~
SEQ O'Clock this morning for tho muir icr
Of his daughter. There were two thocks
-the nrs. a, $50 and he second a, ,0
lie was pronounced dead at $40.
Mangano came into the death cham.
Der sobbing gently. with tears running
Down his check. His head was slcft and
~ walked frmly. but his eyes were
hted m the crucifix he carried In his
fkht hand. Men have como IN laugh.
Ing. curslng, shudderinx In terror and
without visible emotion. nj Mangsno
WAS he FIRST 80 como In weeping.
He made a few responses. with = little
catch In his voice. as the priest beside
lhim fecited the litany for the dying. Hut
1.-THE attendants worked rapidly with him
sod In lees than a minute after he an
TERED he was strapped In. six seconds
lister the current was turned on. A.
each Of tho applications 1880 volts and
eight and nlno ampcres were sent
Through his body. II was the quickest
~,ssecution yet.
Among the Witnesses vas SheriW
lJUiius hamburger Of New York. who
won't TO satisfy himself that an electric
shock kills. There has been a question
Iraised from time 10 time by some medl-
lcsl men that the electricity merely
.stuns and that death In caused by tho
Autopsy.
TIN sherin was quoted after to-day's
se1ecution ~ saying that he Ia satisfied
new that electrocution kills and that II
10 the most humane a OF executing
scaminals. lie expressed himself as OPP
ipesed to capital punishment. but said II
IL had 20 be he Was convinced the death
iebair 10 the quickest and most painless
Imothed.
HAMBURGER COULD LOOK on
NOTHING MORE.
The Sheriff had IN mind several tests
The might have made 10 determine
twAsthsr or not the condemned man wA~
dead after being removed to the autopsy
room. but the law prevented his using
.thsm. even had he desired. after wit
{nNssdng the execution. Besides. Warden
iJshn u. Kennedy. who invited the shsr-
80. announced with considcrsb BILE pom
ftivsness when he heard OF the Sheriff.
tvtews. that there would he no personal
Investigation made by the Sherin-that
ihs could simply look on.
To-day's execution satisfies n doubt
that long fingered IN the Sherin's mind
1.-THE question had been "a sort of ohses-
.sion with him since M Presiden, OF the
lnosrd Of coroners no hrst raised II.
Cases Of suspended animation that
icems TO his notice AS Coroner did moi
help dispel the doubts. and he went I,
sHing Sing to-day for the sole purpos,
sof satisfying himself AS far as possible
iss to whether electric shock kills.
Sheriff Hamburger had e~lectrocutior
,explained to him at great length by Dr
tSIitske. who has Witnessed more exc "a,
stICns by electricity than any other man
lis was tcld that on the first ontac
the temperature Of the body leaps from
normal to between iG and 1870. that un
der this fearful heat for q human bod
the blood changes It's structure. the ,is
tsue takes on n change and all the merry,
.oOntres are shattered.
Tho doctor pointed out 10 tho Sheriff
that l0 or ie degrees In ordinary III
.ness In considered almost certainly fatal
sand that the blood cells burst and dealt
lc4mes. Death. the doctor said. coms
with the nrst nash Al an el~ectrocutior
MAN COULDN'T De REVIVED