Show giniaELBOTEOCUTIONS ELECTROCUTIONS Reporters Will Be Allowed to Witness Them The First Case Will Be That of Charles 31c Elyaine at Slur iuIhe flew Law Allows Itr Special toTnE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Feb 5Charles McElvaine will take his seat in the electric chair at Sing Sing next week and for the first time since hanging was abolished in New York state newspaper men will see an execution execu-tion Yesterday Governor Flower signed the bill amending the electric execution lain I la-in this respect Warden Brown is allowed to admit a number of reporters among his guests and he says he is as glad as anyone else that the press gag law is a thing of tbe past It was intended up to yesterday afternoon af-ternoon that Nicola Trezza should also meet death the same day and by the same means as MoElvaine but Trezzas sentence of death was commuted to imprisonment for life by Governor Flower Principal Keeper James D Connaughton said today that very little preparation was required this time The electric chair in which five men have already been shocked to death can be made ready at an hours notice The preliminary tests required bylaw by-law will be made by the electrician today or next day I McEivaino was sentenced to die in the week beginning Monday February 8 Warden Brown will not announce the exact ex-act time of the execution but Monday or I Tuesday morning between sunrise and noon is probably a pretty good guess The invitations to the nineteen witnesses allowed al-lowed by law to be present at the execution I execu-tion were mailed from the prisou office last night Pressure was brought to bear on the warden from every Dart of the state to secure admission to the death chamber I Medical men seem as anxious to witness the application of the deadly current as when this mode of capital punishment was first tried I I As at the two previous executions at Sing Sing Prof Ira Van Gieson of this city will have charge of the autopsy And there will be no assistants lidded i Warden Brown to the reporter Every witness the physician or reporters will sit down on a stool and the first man who gets up or offers a suggestion to Dr Van Giesen will be asked to get out I dont believe in more than one boss for an operation opera-tion of this sort ton Mc Elvaine is said to be the toughest man ever in Sing Sing When Wood who was executed last July passed McEI valnes cell on on his way to the death chair the Brooklyn murderer sang out to him = Goodby You youll get to hell before 1 do He quarreled with his wife when she visited him in his cell three days ago and cursed her Me Elvaine has been in Sine Sing over two years His crime was the murder of Grocer Luccu in Hrooklyn on the night of August 22 UW He broke into the grocers house and when discovered dis-covered stabbed Lucca to death There is every reason to believe that McElvaine will not sit in the electric chair until his wi unt powers of resistance are overmatched by those of his keepers A desperate struggle is expected when the announcement announce-ment is made that his time to die has come |