| Show A TERRIBLE 1EULTr TO liE PAID BV CONVICTED1 MD DEREK3 IS SEW OBK SATE Death by electricity mart In the 1uI11 actual pang bo lets painful than that of hanging but the details with which the law surrounds the new mode for the execution of crlm ash In > ew York Stale are abso lutely l terrifying contemplteani mutt till thc soul I of the COo emnll1 criminal with the deipttt a6 un less he be absolutely brutish nod degraded W lint can be tho thoughts of the man sentenced to death through the days mental agony and unutterable unutter-able anguish prevedlne the hour execution The rIde from the plact of trial to Sing Sing prison must have a fresh torture In every moment mo-ment Ito It long or short It Is the mans farewell communion with tie active joyous Ixjstllng worM Handcuffed and Ironed hi view with despairing eyes tho shifts 10 I the panorama of lifer Friends mt and part StrangersJolnlnthecha the traveler hove The train boy goes through with lib wares ansi even he ordinarily n nuisance seems an object ofuivy The cars i whirl by a farm house In tile meadows IU rear the cow graze In laild content low long ago Is I 11 that the doomed one went to call the cattle home nnd mother1 urged his vllliug Jlttlofevt to fresh exertions by the promise of a bit ot golden Johnny cake tnih from the oven on Ids return A culvert erasfed and he1 catch 1 a broad and brA WiDg brook WAS It yesterday oc years ago that by the xinks of such a stream he cut n pole caught a grasshopper and lithed untentedly for winners The broaj Hudson smilia Lack an answer to the Kpringtlme gun and a great steamboat 1l < lowB its oty through the aiding current to tile not distant metropolis of the Xew World Was it that or a liner like auto It that bore Jiira cityward from his country home lu tho well remembered re-membered past with a fathers words still ringing In his ear dnd a mothers kiss and tears still frah upon his brow The train slackens stops the irakeman cuss Slag Sins and the guards pass out Witli their cap ive The great salsa open if e look hU lit on earth and sky Iraws In a farewell breath of utipol lutes air and stumbles forward hrOUtrll tb hi flnnmv fwirtwW Tlm hut togethtrw 1th n crash and the taker of human life is thencetor rardusdead to the world as if lie laimoldcred lu tIle grave a hunt hun-t d jcair JCo lnisago from without can leacli him I more no J icroons save those authorities of the law can meet him face lo face In a silent cell hu awaits the end and when that la to come ho dues not Know for the sentence fpecllies Ihe week within which the execution exe-cution U to take place and not the 19r hour At some unexpected moment solemn faced messengers will bid him follow tu the chair of doytir il with the deadly natal cap 1 pon his head ho will take j his sent a button Will be touch and Ills crime expIated I Tins laws rigor will fallow itina even beyond the rto or his mortal mains can have no cepulchre with thoeo of friends or kindred Thy must fill en unmarked grave within tho prUou walla The death chamber at Sing Sing h aonc story brick building receutix reeled It U about tliirtyflu fu et square and conlalns tlvo cells lies cells aru six feet wide and eIght deep with louIS of cement and Iron barred doom I none of these Un condemned jnurderer mutt 100 his time between the day of sentence and the day or execution It is only n few steps from Uie cilia to Hay chairwhcse cmbra to Is death To tub chair tho culprit will bo bound hand and foot mpswhich connect with the wires with one oleof lie slyuutnto wJ be applied io j to his I baroti feet A cap or helmet rolll be placed on his head and to the lop ot tills another wlrcaltaches Thou man becomes I art of an electric circuit and the pressing of button completes the necessary tragedy of ruuiolsmetTv1tLa Kizi vatfy Utriial |
