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Show X 20STK0US EXTERIJItyr. TiiEdetails of the electrocution of William Kemmlcr, tho murdrrf, are most revolting. Opinions appear to differ as to whether tho edit wretch waskilled by fte tthtsaock. A. matter of tiiX kind should be placed beyond the realm of mere opinion, otherwise no such barbar-U3 barbar-U3 tragedy ought to be repeated jpon any other victim. It was vident that thoc who manipulated the dramatic performance did not lelievo that death ensued from tho tirst shock, elsetkey wonld cot hrc ihouted for the e-urrenV to be again turned nn and applied. It will not be denied that dead men don't areathu and seldom groan, and (Cemmler did both after being sub-lected sub-lected to the first application cf the current. It is also a matter of opinion as to whether Kemailer suffered iu the interim between the firstand second ittempts to electrocute him. Doubtless Doubt-less none of the operators w ould lie -rilling to become the subject of a sting cxperlmsut in order to iemonstrate the point, and run the -isk of a return to consciousness ith a shattered system. Those Tho w ere present when Kcmmler exhibited symptoms of whl was wl.eved at the lime to be re-urning re-urning sensibility seemed nnx ous to prevent him getting an pportunity to tell them whether or tot his experience hurt him, as 1m-nsdiate 1m-nsdiate s'.ops were Liken to prevent in cxplauilio'i, by their priceediug itonre to roast him. It might be in place to ash how much more refined aud civilized such I treatment is than that in vogue imougsoma of tlie nations of antiquity, an-tiquity, who threw their culprits into a super-heated furnace. The incieut practice had the advantage if producing instantaneous airi painless death, together with tlie avoidance,by "uitable flumes, of the noxious effluvium inseparable from the roasting of anlmil flesh without the appropriate meins of conducting conduct-ing away the disagreca'de vapor emitted. It is taid that, in order to render the electrocution mureetlective, the warden proposed to shave the tap of Keinraler's head. To tills tlie doomed man oijected, on ihegrouud that he had taken some tains rtith his hair, which was wavy, and lie desired to pre-erve to the ke-l a certain hyperion cur! which ornamented orna-mented his frontispiece. A local eolempomry of this city publishes this statement close to an alleged nortrait of the deceased murden-r. tTiifortunat-y for the harmony nf .he two presentments the tup;ioscd ikeuess shows not the "lightest uu-iulatory uu-iulatory symplooi of tlie hair, thc uues indicating its presence being as straight as a bunch of horseshoe nails, and the picture as a whole earsa strikinijresemblaiiceto those irtistic tketciies occasionally ob-erveil ob-erveil on the slates of youngsters at hool whose talents as draftsmen irestmggling for outlet. It is to be hoied that such a .ragedy as the electrocution of Wil-lam Wil-lam Ke-mmler will have no rejicti-ion rejicti-ion iu this or any other country. That process of ridding the world o; its criminals slujuld cease with tlie extinction of its first ictim. |