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Show 1 JT Bll. .oies Over the Eeraains of the 'fho Di by Electricity -. Withheld. S TAKING OFF FAINLESS? he All-Absorbing Question With Metricians and Scientific Gentlemen. ,N. y, Y Aug. 7. Warden t'lttftl this afternoon that the ofKcmmler still lie in the room jison vhero the autopsy was e liad not decided where the ililKi buried. iD i9 a description of the 1 cbair in which Kemmlor was f,l to the back is an adjustable which can bo raised or lowered l 0nje down over the head of tho K(l. The technique of tbo very simple. Through, the 4 i hole, and through this passes tube containing a rod of steel ,r to which a wet sponge is This sponge will touch the , the condemned man's head. pine, with webbing inside sponge, passes up' through i So as to touch tho base ilnc, when the man is strapped ;n his seat. This was ac-itd ac-itd by the use of several straps, ug around the chest, another be abdomen, which drew tha against the spine, while tie re (irmly strapped to those of r. The feet rested on a cora-footrcst, cora-footrcst, after the fashion of use in a barber shop. ludeed, resemblance of this instru-ih'iithto instru-ih'iithto a barber's chair has caused the prison ofti iials to electrocution iu their roughly is way as a haldheadcd shave, 'ctricity was generated by a near to the power room a 1 feet away from the place of ii. is nothing uncomfortable about r save the deadly current which h it, and if death by the latter ilden and painless as the advo-irin advo-irin it will certainly be the most ! means of capital punishment (where. mlcr was dead within a second alternating current was turned I Harold Brown of New York isville Courier-Journal reporter, t man who, after the New York ire passed the law to execute by ty, ,made experiments and. ii position the deadly dynamo rn. I asked about the execution aid: "In regard to the Keuimler m, I will say that experiments mals show that one second's with the alternating current ve instantly fatal, but that if rent is opened before the ex-of ex-of twenty-five or thirty sec-e sec-e muscular rigidity caused by age of the current through the will be followed by a corres-relaxation, corres-relaxation, which may produce "die expulsion of breath and at-it at-it respiration. If the current is more than 30 seconds there is meat whatever of the muscles e current is cut off. mlerwas killed instantly aud ly within the lirst second, but nrtent was opened (taken off) hree seconds had passed there iex motions of the muscles, ightpucd some of tho attciid-lu attciid-lu thinking that he was not 'lo yon account for the burns wler'sbody?" ems to me," replied Brown, re was not sufficient moisture lectrodes." wis lialch of Albany, executive "f the state board of health, one of the witnesses at the ii of Kcinmlcr, said: "I do not the failure of tho first shock 'e.mmler any proof that this 'if execution is necessarily a "r from tho first shock the ' was virtually dead. He suf- pain and did not regain con- I think there should be an n appointed, who would at-j'l at-j'l executions, and have charge eetrical apparatus, under the 'n of the officer designated by wry the sentence into effect." |