Show I How WIll mill The M II JE Electric f Hi Ite f Chair at f 1 LI w Czolgosz III DIe Auburn uba Minute d Described Chicago Chronicle HE method to be b f employed In the j THE T legal execution of uC assassin gosz oz is thu th In keeping with the progress of oC the centurI rI rl s He Is Ic to die by the latest and most mast approved form torm of ot capital punish punishment ment electrocution While the th inner of ot his taking oft off is p a minor manor incident compared with the major fact tact that he Is to pay th penalty of oC his hie hi life for his crime it ie s u a commentary O n on i the advancement e of the th thO world that an I I assassin guilty of ot the most mo t of offense Sense is to be executed not as In the theold theold theold old days by a more barbarous and Painful death than that meted opt oct to Other murderers but In the most lU im mane method approved by the laws of qt the state tate in which he was convicted Time vas when whet the assassin as n llin of oC a ruler was wa dragged to pieces by four tour horses attached to his four limbs and driven in opposite directions In some of ot the oriental countries to this day the most mist t uel and revolting tortures are re reec res ec s rued for tor those who even aven attempt the life of or a potentate or are suspected of complicity in plots against him Bon Boll BollIng log Ing in oil oH drawing and quartering are Among the least terrible of these pun punishments punishments while the lopping on Oft of sin single single single gle members m from the living body un until until til death relieves the victim Is a common com common common mon punishment for notable crimes cr me meIn In China to this day criminals susPected sus suspected of ot plots against the emperor or other r high Is are placed in a bam bamboo bamboo bamboo boo cage and kept constantly awake by their guards until death from om fatigue mmes ensues They are prodded with sharp Instruments on the least east sign of sleep and nd their sufferings are impossible to after three or four tour days of oC this torture But Czolgosz who would have met a fate as terrible as ag any ony of these had he committed a like crime in an Oriental country or even in many European countries Is to meet death in the form Corm declared to be most hu humane humane mane and practically pra painless by med medi media i 1 ia al men A current of oC electricity in Ic into j to tl be bp shot through his body paralyzing r the heart action instantly and causing death In a fraction Cra of oC a second In the familiar phrase of ot the street he will know what struck him after atter the electrician cle concealed in an inner rr rm r m lm moves the fatal tatal switch which will sand f nd 2000 0 or 0 more volts of or the eus ous ou current through lies hie body More than ten yearn YeRn ago the agitation looking to the th abolition of or hanging was w begun in New York state After Arter several magazine and newspaper articles had been published expressing the opinions I of or eminent physicians and criminologists on all every phase of or the subject a i ij commission n was appointed by the t leg legislature legislature j tr nm h et I to make m an exhaustive e Inquiry l into the subject This investigation dragged along alone for tor c several veral years ears dur during durIn ing ir In R which time the a n 1 Her ter was waR thoroughly thor thoroughly exploited in the newspapers and at last Q a favorable report was submit submitted ted recommending re that electricity be substituted as a death agent for Cor the thet time t I me honored ropes end which had been bEn used In most countries for Cor hundreds of oC years fa A bill was vas vas r in ISO 1597 and it was ordered In the law that Kit all executions should hould takes place pl e In tn the state penitentiaries chambers were con constructed ted at Sing Sing and Auburn c rl with the thO death chair which f li rpt rel ded the old gallows wires which took tok the place of a Ii rope and an electric gait which performs the theo rune functions tams of th the old trap Several executions have taken place uHler th the new mitt n conditions and with re results results which mere more than verified all the thea a i of ot the physicians Autopsies iv frE rp re held on the bodies bodle of or the first criminals T executed x in order that the surgeons and might learn learna rn snit at a noI au what effect the tremendous cur curP P nt hats hAt upon the tissues and organs of ef the body and discover In that way death was wall instantaneous J It vas lIs found that the blood blOd was wn coagulated coagulated and other indications went ent to prove that th t electrocution ele was a certain instantaneous and practically lly painless form of oC death This is III what awaits w the assassin who murdered President McKinley and plunged the nation into grief Under the law he has an inter interval val va al of days between the date of ot his sentence s and his execution e in fn order that any legal stays or pro proceedings proceedings proceedings may be brought by his attorneys attorneys attorneys before beCore the higher courts but in inthe Inthe inthe the present case of course nothing of oC the kind will be attempted The condemned man will be led by guards into the death chamber in the Auburn penitentiary Near the wall wail at atone atone atone one end of oC the room is an oak chair i constructed something after the man manner manner manner ner of or an easy chair with broad wood wooden woodI I en arms It rests upon a a rub rubber er mat matting matting ting which Insulates it Il completely tely At Attached Attached Attached to the back of the chair Is an adjustable board against which goez gusz gu z will rest nis back and this board is 18 equipped with a n sliding rod to which is attached the death musk mask a strap which can enn be fastened around the head at the forehead On the in inner Inner inner ner side of this strap are two small sponges which press prom upon the temples and which are operated by wires with the rod in the back of or the chair This rod rol carries the electricity conducted to It by heavy heay wires from the wall walI There are straps fastened to the back of the chair to pass pasa around the upper arms of the condemned man and hold the arms securely against the chair other straps on the arms of ot the chair itself binding the forearms down and pre preventing preventing preventing venting the least struggle Another stout strap or belt bell attached to the back backof of oC the chair passes across the abdo abdomen abdom abdomen men m n of the prisoner and binds him securely to the seat His ankles are also strapped to the th foot toot rest at the bottom botton ot of f the chair When Then hen all an Is In readiness two small electrodes fitted with moist sponges like those pressing against the fore tore forehead forehead head are placed against the bare calf cal calor of or each leg the trousers being either silt for tor the purpose or turned up as asfar asfar asfar far as the knee When these electrodes are fastened Into place the body of or Czolgosz will form torm part of a circuit from the wires at his head to those at athis his hta legs and any current entering the upper wires must pass p from the elec alec electrodes electrodes at his forehead through his body to tn the electrodes attached to his legs and aRd thus back to the dynamo 5 S The execution Itself these details be he being b bI I log ing attended to is exceedingly simple I Upon the wall of oC the death chamber is isa Isa isa a large switch board and a number of or gauges 8 which register the number of or I volts volta of oC current passing over the wires One On of the selected for tor the purpose e either the sheriff or some other I officer legally charged with the execution execution tion don pulls down a handle on a switch which completes the circuit and in a fiftieth of a second about 2300 2 O volts of oC the deadly electricity t leaps through the body of oC the murderer and passes pas es I Ion on through the wires In that fraction frac fraction I tion of oC time I 1 is 18 all over He is dead I IaM an as certainly as s though a guillotine had descended delc upon his neck The current is Ie usually allowed to remain at that I intensity for about bout ten seconds when i it la Is reduced to 1800 volts After sev several several I eral seconds re in order to make assur assurance I ance anee doubly sure the current is again Increased to upward of oC 2000 volts and then cut oft elf f The execution Is over inless in less than a minute the penalty de cie demanded by the law lacy has been paid This method metod of execution has met with so 80 much favor from criminologists physicians and humanitarians that it has h been n adopted by several tI other ether states notably no tab Massachusetts and Ohio It is on uJ improvement in hanging RAnging from several standpoints standpoint being be being ing swift sure Bure and painless and the removal ef tho a 81 minute after the current is turned on is a great advance from the old method where a rn man n was allowed allow d to hang for tor from ten to fifteen minutes slowly dying while 4 Jury of oC doctors counted Ills big 11 falling failing pulse beats beRtH and finally pro prone prone ne him lead There are no pulse beats In the electric chair execution eXe ution The movement of oC the handle on the I witch snitch board is 5 practically simultaneous ous with the stoppage of ot the heart the 1 t V If q aF a 1111 1 n 4 a Ir I ivr 1 11 r i t tw 11 t w r IL dr 1 I 4 ca fB of k J v 1 t t r x 7 O II A L WAr FIAT Y GOIZ obliteration of all an sense and feeling feeing and immediate death v Since the Imposition of at sentence Czolgosz has lost the nerve which car carried carried carried ried him through the ordeal of the trial and has collapsed almost com completely completely The chances are that by the time the day of ot his execution arrives he will have to be dragged or carried to the chair His occurred on his arrival at Auburn penitentiary at 3 on the morning after atter his sentence was pronounced at Buffalo Up to that time he had carried him himself himself self marvelously well He stood the trying test In the court room and even the imposition of sentence without a visible weakening and an marched b back ck to his cell almost as ns jauntily as though he had been acquitted But the people of or Auburn had heard I that he was wa to arrive that mornin and a mob moh of about had assembled at the station nation When the train pulled n there was an outcry from rom the mob for or the murderers blood As he was hustled from the train to the prison fists fi ts struck at him and hands reached over the officers shoulders to seize him Immediately he collapsed and became Falling Failing upon the floor of his cell he screamed with fear feal and agony a orty and begged the officers not to give gle film him up to to the mob That seemed to be his h s J greatest fear that he would be lynched As the days da s passed KIssed he grew a bit quieter but hut It Is apparent atar apparent ent to his guards gua that he has hac lost his nerve and they fear he will make a pitiable spectacle of himself when the time comes for his last march on earth I that from his cell to the death cham chamber chamber ber her berAn herAn An arrant coward the chances are that he will be paralyzed pith fear I when he views the apparatus prepared for his death the grisly chair the head piece and the straps It is in indeed indeed deed a spectacle which might make the most blustering braggart quail I and in the case of a pitiable coward Ike the man who murdered the president dent the effect will probably be dis distressing in the extreme to the sheriff and other officials charged cha with the legal execution But they have hae little pity for tor him Indeed at the start be before before before fore his trial the sheriff sherif discovered that the guards stationed outside his cell were practicing a mild mUd form of oC torture by keeping him awake at night They Th y managed to make noises which startled him every time he went to sleep they talked or sung or whis whistled I tied and gloried in the fact that their endeavors were driving sleep from the I brain of the murderer a mild form of or orthe the Chinese torture which keeps j nals awake until they the die But as soon as the sheriff sherlf heard of this he I put a stop to it largely because he did not want Czolgosz to appear in incourt Incourt incourt court thin drawn and haggard as al though he had been persecuted in the I Jail In the eyes of oC the tho law he h e was still stilt Innocent until he had been proven guilty guilt and orders tyee eis issued u 1 to feed m well ell and aid avd let Jet him have hae plenty of ot sleep The result was that when he came into court he was fat tat and sleek after his two weeks of rest and rood and looked much better than he heI did when he was w arrested r But since his sentence he has I changed his demeanor Realizing R that his clumsy clum efforts to feign Insanity were deceiving no one he dropped thorn thom after the trial end and as though he hew were w re quite resigned to his fate and andi i wanted only to have it hurried along alons Ion and arid get It over with But the incident inci incident I dent at Auburn when the mob clam clamored clamored ored orell for his blood worked a complete I change in him and seemed to take way sway whatever spirit of ot he had up to that time He has been a trembling whimpering g wretch ever eer since and the chances are that he will win willbe willbe be led to his execution shrieking with terror or practically practical unconscious from fear tear But In that event the redeeming re fea lea feature feature I ture tune is that the spectacle will not last long Ion At a hanging when a prisoner faints or struggles there Is always a painful scene as It is i necessary to have him on his hi feet in order to r place noose around his neck With the electrocution chair this trouble is ob obviated obviated obviated The most and trembling of ot condemned men can be placed In the chair without the slight slightest sll ht est oat muscular aid on their own i part Dart art The current can be flashed through h hI I them and the crime oa has been expiated |