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Show EXECUTION OF MACK JOEKIN. The murderer of Donald JlcMikc . Pays the Penalty An Easy Death. ' Joliet, Sept. 25. Mack Joekin was executed in the peneitentiary to-day for the murder of Donald McMike. They quarreled about politics and money. Joekin had got into trouble, and after spending $20,000 trying to get .him out McMike got tired. . He shut off Joekin' s money and talked about him on the outside.. out-side.. . One day he called at the jail, and while there Joekin, pretending friendship, asked McMike to sit down, offering him a chair. The unsupecting McMike sat down, when a pin eleven inches long, which Joekin had concealed in the upholstery, entered his body, causing death in half an hour. For this crime Joekin was to-day executed by the new method . invented by Dr. Goeasy, the humanitarian.. At :noonMack wha is clerk in the fine-work shop, was informed that a friend had sent him a fine dinner. He soon sat down . to consume Blue Points, quail, chicken, venison, etc., with a whole basket ; of champagne. After gorging ' himself delightfully he ' was handed ,,a cigar. With the fragrant Havana the condemned man enjoyed his siesta and the happiest day he has known for several months. - As the cigar was nearly comsumed he came to the opiate, and after a few inhalations fell gently j asleep. Immediately after the opiate was the poison, and as gentle slumber settled over him he calmly inhaled the fatal draught. One second, and all was over, with the well-known smile upon his lips. The last words he uttered were: "1 wonder if our sister, the warden, smokes as good cigars as these, and if the State pays for them." ; Joekin never knew that he had been sentenced to death. He supposed he was in for ten years, and under the new law condemned prisoners and their families are to be kept in ignorance of the death sentence. During the last three months of their life here in prison they, are to have a fine dinner once a week, and at one of these dinners the warden must give him the deadly cigar. . |