The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
SEVEN DIE IN
 ELECTRIC CHAIR
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Collins, a West Indian negro, was
 the first to go, being selected spJ Warden John S. Kennedy because o1
 his acknowledged -gameness' and be- and enthusiastically believing in the comforts of religion, he was expected to set the others an example which would prevent a disturbance. Fer. rome was the last. He was recog- mixed as a desperate character. When convicted, he tried to murder one o1 the jurors that found him guilty Spat at the judge on the bench and finally tried suicide in the open court room. He was sentenced while con- fined in a straightjacket and heavily ironed and had sworn never to die in the chair without a fight. But he too, had broken under the weight of incarceration and went to death smiI- ingly shouting "Good-a bye, good-a luck to the medical witnesses and prison officials who had feared a scene.
 At the last Ferrone accepted the consolation of religion and was utter ing a muttered prayer as the switch of the electrician strengthened out his body. cutting off his last words. The witnesses gathered at the main prison entrance soon after daylight and stood about conversing in whisp- CTS while down below in the little square execution chamber Chief Elec- trician Davis, inventor of the death chair, and a corps of assistants went carefully over the instrument, testing it in every way.
 Warden Kennedy had insisted that through the task that he admittedly dreaded. Shortly before o'clock. a whispered signal was given and the first batch of witnesses and the men who were to sit throughout until the last silent form had been carried to where the doctors were awaiting with instruments already exposed to per form the autopsy passed down the steps and took their seats on the stools behind the rope that separated them from the chair, the only article of furniture in the barren room.
 There was a brief but nerve trying wait and then door in the distance was heard to clang very faintly. Then through the little door leading into the room came the sound of prayer. An instant later Collins entered. He was smiling and halted imperceptibly when he saw the chair. But he did not falter and knelt with his head on the arm of it and prayed in a firm voice. As he settled into tie an clergyman who had been with Collins almost continuously for a week, began slowly. Collins repeating after him:
 'I am looking unto Jesus, the au- thor and f1nisheT of my fat-.''
 The last word, faith" was never completed. There was a scrunch of metal as the switch was forced up by Davis, a creaking and straining as the body of the victim was forced by the powerful current against the straps and the first had paid the pen atty The current. of 1,S00 volts and to 91a amperes, was kept on for 59 seconds. Then it was cut off and Dr. c. w. Farr, the prison physician tore away the shirt and placed his hand over the heart. He stepped back and motioned the other doctors away. Another shock was given, this one being of 10 seconds duration. There was another brief examination and then a third shock, it being af- terward explained by the doctors that, although they believed the first contact killed each of the men, two additional had been given as a pre- caution.
 Cali was the second to die. All night he and his fellow countrynaens had been in prayer with Rev. Father William E. Caskin, the prison chan lain, Rev. RomaIus Simoni, of the Church of the Most Precious Blood