The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-01
TWENTY-TW MEN
AWAITING Deaf H
Murderers Greatly Overtax CO.
pacity Of Prison at
Sing Sing.

paclty OF Prison at
Sing Sing.
New York. June so.-rhreo murder
crs Will be executed in the death
/ house at sing sing on July S. They
arc Giuseppe Ciprell who was sen
fenced to death February IS. 1911.
/ George Williams. colored. who was re-
ceived at Sing Sing November 2l. OF
last year, and Zanta Santa, who was
sentenced last December in connection
with the murder OF Mrs. Harry Hall
at Croton Lake, for which murder
| four others were sentenced at tho
same time.
/ There arc twenty-five murdorcrs in
/ the dcathhouse at Sing Sing just now.
} tho largest number of condemned men
ever kept at that institution at any one
! time. TO provide for them Warden
/ Kennedy has been compelled to con-
struct two ancXes. one is next TO
/ the lighthouse proper. and here the
Compartments used usually as cool
crs" have been turned into condemned
cells. Three others have been built
next door to the Office OF Principal
Keeper Communication. OF the "P. X"
as he Is better known among the con-
victs. Manurlce Lustig, u medical stu
cent who was convicted in this city
/ two years ago OF poisoning his young
wife is tho dean OF the deathhouse
dwellers. His case is before the Court
/ Of Appeals.
whitman's Speed Tilis Cuts.
! There are only three homicide cases
| awaiting trial in tho Tombs Just now.
/ This is the smallest number of murder
cases ever on hand at this time OF the
| year District Attorney Whitman is
! highly pleased because OF the excel
/ lent record made by his staff in clear
/ ms up tho homicide calendars. This
accounts in part for the fact that sing
Sing on the other hand, is just now
/ housing the highest number of murd
erers IN its history and who are await
/ ms the electric chair.
/ The mon under the sentence of death
| have very few visitors. The law pre-
scribes that they can SEQ only their
nearest relatives and their counsel or
course, tho prison chapleins have &C
cess TO the prisoners at oil times. When
q. prisoner in tho deathnouse receives
a caller tho blinds are drawn in front
( of the cells occupied by the other con
demned men. The caller sits in front
! OF q steel wire screen and betwe cen
/ him and the cell sits n guard or keep
er. In that way I; IL Impossible for
! callers 10 pass anything to n con
demned man.
/ When Ranaele Fasone was an inmate
was noticed that every once In while
| he would be under the influence OF
LIQUOR. Just how this came about Is
/ told here for the FIRST time. One of
the Keepers report to 10 "P. X" Con
naughton one day that Cascone was
'as drunk as Il lord"
Impossible" said Connaughton "un-
less ono OF tho Keepers passes the
whiskcy 10 the condemned man."
Mystery In the Case.
Connaughton went to the death
house and had Cascone taken out OF
his cell AID searched. Then the cell
was searched, but no signs OF whisky
or other intoXioats could be discover
ed. It was pulling. The records
showed Cascone had had no visitor
in nearly n week. Cascone declared
that he had not tasted whisky since
he came TO the prison. He acknowl
edged, though. that he would not
mind getting Il good drink from some
where
a month passed by. and again it
was found that Cascone had, as fine
q Jas in tho death house as was ever
accumulated anywhere. Connaugh-
ton was sent for and again prisoner
and Icell were searched. The same
result. The prison physician was
called. and he pronounced that Cas-
cone was unInistakably. surely drunk.
/ -Npl tHAll NuSNOlo lNO
more Jags did tho secret accidental
~ leap out.
source of thc Supply.
! There Is bathroom at one end or
the death house. Once a week each
condemned man IS taken from his cell
and marched to the bathroom. and
there he takes his bnth After that
he changes his clothes. There Is Il
radiator In this bathroom.
/ y relative of Cascone a woman,
would visit him at regular intervals.
/ While waiting for the screens to he
pulled down in fron1 of the cells
the other mon confined in the
house sho would slip into II
/ room and throw Il skin
7yhlskey behind the r
she would walk into
and sit next to e
verse with CO in
Italian. WIFI not un-
| derstand deposited
whisk> -.ator. At the
en- N Cascone would
+ ne would nnd tho
and either drink IL
o bath or manage TO get
IS cell.
search of the bathroom was
+, T, made until it has been figured
out that CascO lks always oc-
cured after D akcn his bath.
OF course the was never per-
mitted after see her rcla-
tive Nobody o Jag" in tn"
death house
Casoone. ii 10 Court OF Ap
peals, was ward killed by