Evening star., 1936-03-31

the four rows Of seats, an aisle divid-
ing them into two sections. Here will
sit the execution jurors-of1cial wit
neSses. There are chairs for 32-four
in a row. four rows on either side of
the aisle.
Behind the chairs is space where
others will be standings many,
probably, as there is room for-when
Hauptmann enters the death room a
pace or two behind his spiritual ad-
wiser, the Lutheran clergyman, Rev.
Mr.. Mathiesen.
Three Doctors Present.
On the opposite side of the room,
against the far wall, will stand three
doctors, who will be called upon to
pronounce Hauptmann officially dead.
To the right of where the doctors
will stand and in the wall behind the
death chair. Is a door. It leads into
a small room-the room of the ex-
ecuted dead.
In that room, the interior Of which
is closed to the spectators by the door.
are slabs. When the body of Haupt-
mann Is carried in there tonight, after
the doctors have formally pronounced
him dead, another body will lie there
the body of the Philadelphia bad
man who killed a policeman and was
condemned to die for it.
Hardly any one is paying much at
tention to Zied: not even the world
known Hauptmann, who has been his
death house mate.
No justices Of the United States
Supreme Court have twice heard Zied
plead to escape the chair, nor has
the State Pardons Court twice con-
sidered.a clemency plea.
Hauptmann's fight for life has been
as bitterly waged as zieds has been
simple. zied killed man, was caught
and now pays the penalty. 1t is the
way of life-and death-and he is re-
signed
Preceding and following Hauptmann
as he enters through the gray door will
be prison guards.
As he sits down in the walnut-tim-
bered chair, guard on each side will
step forward quickly, silently and at
tach the electrodes to his leg.
Another guard will slip the black
mask over Hauptmann's face.
Kimberling's Post.
While this is going on Col. Kimber-
ling, who by law is the man charged
with carrying out the death sentence,
will stand half way between the door
through which Hauptmann has en-
tered and the chair.
In a corner, to the right of the
chair, is a small wash bowl. When
Hauptmann enters. if the usual pro-
cedure is followed. the executioner,
Robert Elliott, will be busying him.
self there, soaking the sponge which
increases the effectiveness of the con-
tact to the head electrode.
Elliott. official executioner for five
States, will attach the head electrode
himself, not trusting this to a guard.
He is particular that the head elec-
trode fit just so. The contact must
be perfect so that the 1000 volts he
will turn into the chair strike with
deadly suddenness.
to the instrument board, which is
to the instrucent board, which Is
directly behind the chair. Standing
at the board, the executioner will be
able to reach out and touch the chair
and the man in it.
Death Tableau.
This, then, will be the tableau at
the moment when death poises to
strike Bruno Richard Hauptmann:
In the chair, the condemned car
penter of Kamenz.
Behind, at the instrument board.
the executioner Elliott.
On either side of the chair, two
prison guards.
At Hauptmann,s left. half a dozen
feet away and facing him, the erect,
soldierly Col. Kimberling.
Against the opposite wall from Col.
Kimberling. the doctors.
In front of Hauptmann, his spiritual
adviser.
Behind the rope, the official jurors
some tense, others (veterans of the
death chamber drama) casual, uncon-
cerned.
The electrodes attached. the exc