| Show J S I 1 BUG EXECUTED swift and painless death for the DEAD IN A FEW SECONDS end of the celebrated wife murder case most determined fight to save a murderers lite life in the criminal annals of this country Tou touching chini appeal of the condemned mans ilife wife to morton slug sing sin X N Y july I 1 with two electric contacts consuming not over a minute dr buchanan was put to death in sins sing sins sing prison today to day just before noon like nil all the others who have preceded him lie he went to death calmly and did not say a word in the death chamier chamber the only appearance of right fright or weakness was the tact fact that lie he closed ills his eyes when lie he entered and did not open them again this the contacts were made but all physicians and electricians claim that the second contact was merely precautionary anti and ill that t t the victim d died led instantly there were wc ic no burns arid and no unpleasant features and every physician present declared the execution EL a success the body was claimed by and the case will go down into history as a 0 cause celebre the follan following 1 ing depatch dh patch was received at the prison from new york to warden sage faasa sins sing sins sing pi ibon bonNew new toik the tha or tilon ot of tho the attorney gen i ral is misleading and misstates the facts as to tn the mip app vals orals the buchanan case ia K jn ili the ho supreme court ot of tho united states and by the hie united states laws jaws your authority is taye cl you must choose bet between eon your supposed duty duly to the state and obedience to the supreme laws of country am C BUTTS W GIBBONS sirs mrs budlia buchanan nan arrived arrive on the train reaching here bere at 1080 and was taken to the residence ot of the pastor ot of tile the presbyterian church warden sage sent her word that 8 she he could riot not see the prisoner wh when ell she arrived ill the prison officials were already preparing him for the electric chair A QUICK EXECUTION at 1141 the witnesses were called to tile the execution chamber electrician davis was at the switch board in a closed box was the convict who I 1 upon a signal was to turn tilt the 81 switch Itch wilen when the party was seated the electrician put a bank 0 of incandescent I 1 bights on the chair and sent it a current through them there were 1710 1740 17 10 volts in the hank bank when tho the current was sw switched ditched itched olt t the ile warden and two bards nards appeared atthe door doon with dr buchanan Hewal hod in without ii L word and trek took ba t W 1 n thirty arf Y was strapped and in forty se seco comis iAla pronounced dead A voltage ot of 1710 1740 was kept on four seconds and then reduced to forty vo volt I 1 Is which was kept icett on forty se seconds c ands more it was the quickest execution ever seen at the prison HISTORY OF THE CASE seldom it if ever before in the history of criminal proceed ure in this country has there been such a determined and untiring s legal leeal fight mado made to save or prolong tile the life of a condemned murderer as that which has bean bcd n made in behalf of dr H B buchanan the convicted wife cuchanan buchanan has practically been on the threshold of tire the death cell no less than three times time since he was sentenced on oil two of these occasions lit his life was prolonged by the clemency of governor SI orton who granted a respite of one week at tile the earnest solicitation of the prisoners wife and the other respite was calving to legal t technicalities bechn iball ties among others an appeal to the united states supreme court cobit and the british ambassador sir julian tote ur dr robert W buchanan was born of scotch parents on october 17 1862 und and began business as a drug clerk in n halifax N S shortly after lie he left school when a little over 21 years of aie age lie graduated from the college ot 0 physicians and surgeons sui geons peons in chicago ile he returned to halifax and soon scion afterward married miss bliss helen J Patters a soune woman of good family subsequently buchanan accompanied by I 1 his wife went to edinburgh scotland I 1 tor for a course at that elty cites 9 celebrated un university diversity Iver sity the doctor arid and ills his family faintly returned to this country in 1887 and settled down in new kew york city debts accumulated rapid ly arid and tile youns young physical physic all picked bricked up some soine undesirable companions began to drink DIVORCE AND remarriage in 1890 ills wife whom he be accused of faithlessness s separated froni atoni him leaving their child in his ch charac arge after this separation buchanan met it ii wo iyo nan mail named annie nd who had kept a house 0 of f ill repute in newark he secured a divorce from ills his first wife m ife and married the ilia sutherland slither and woman voin in tills this woman who was le ie to be very wealthily weal tIlY made and signed a vIi lill the doctors favor the instrument was witnessed by two tit if buchanana Bucha nalls friends londs tr macomber and doris slit she was old enough to be the dot doctors dottolo mother and when they went to live lit at west eleventh street new york he passed her off as ai EL a wealthy widow who insisted on being ilia 1113 housekeeper buchanan soon indulging heavily in drink arid and quarrels became frequent on oki april 22 2 1892 ills second wife tool took sick suddenly A doctor was called in aal ni buchanan buchana n told him its his wife had kidney trouble A dentists wife and a prof professional fess lonal nurse nume who atte attended ill the e woman sav Buch annil administer two tio or of medicine to the bick woman that evening on tho the following follo wini evening april mrs Lluc chanin hani 11 died while buchanan Duc banan ans absent on a professional call at tile the funeral he laughed arid and joked with those who accompanied compa comp nied him to the cemetery and many woman h had a 1 I left him i on the lath or way ho he 5 secretly remarried barrica tits ills divorced wife v etc at t windsor N S they went to new york and lived at the hotel hamilton under as names As the facts leaked out through the newspapers Bu buchanan chanall became frightened and spread the report that the debased woman was waa addicted to tho the morphine habit in ili c P burst of confidence he ha sald eald to a friend 1 I wish to god I 1 had cremated ci her then the newspapers arid and the authorities ties could KO go to liell hell on june ath 1 th the body ens disinterred and an air autopsy held tile the following day bu cainton was ar rosted and committed to tile the tombs on oil a charse charce of murder A COSTLY TRIAL ill illi q trial which was v an a very sensational one was begun on oil march 20 etc it cost the county about 11 cert I ert arc mere pitted against each oth r wi lit sone slone was left rl by tin ill prosecution or r defend the trial last rl 1 i 1 vf tr t ia ital r flip onnin olio became delirious while wl ile the twelve were v ere deliberating over the verdict on oil API 11 mth having debated for two days the jury returned u a verdict of 0 guilty 2 SUED TEARS poughkeepsie N Y july 1 sirs buchanan the wife of tile the condemned murderer made an unsuccessful effort to induce governor morton borton to commute her husbands sentence to life imvris at 6 this morning and sank on her knees before tile the governor and pleaded for her husbands life though grief almost her from speaking governor morton was overcome tears stood in ills his eyes as his he lifted her to her feet and told old her ho he could not grant the request washington july i 1 up to the tha hour hou of dr Buchau ans electrocution no appeal P cal had been tiled in ili the united d states supreme court the court officials are arc of the opinion that ill the electrocution settles all legal complications arid and there can be no further action in th the a form of collecting damages from the state stale ot of new york as 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