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Show Another interesting step to prevent execution by electricity in New York is to be taken by the Westiughouse electric company. It proposes to sue out a writ of replevin to regain posses-session posses-session of the three dynamos now in the state prisons at Auburn, Dannemara and Sing Sing. The Westinghouse company claims a property interest in the dynamos, which they sell, or rather leate, to customers ou the samo plan that a telophoue company leases its instruments. in-struments. It will bo claimed that the dynamos were illegally and fraudulently fraudu-lently obtained by the state's agent from the company's customers who had a leasehold possession of the machines. This will indeed prove a novel suit. It is well known that electricians gen-rally gen-rally have been much opposed to the use of electricity for execution purposes 011 the ground that il would degrade a noble science, and it is quite likely that Ihcv have induced the Wotingiiouse ecmpaiy to proceed iu this manner. |