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Show HORRBLE SCD.I AT KENTUCKY EXECUTION EDDYVTLLB. By.. Aug. JL Wbea Alfred Al-fred Locke, n tt-year-old wrfe mardsrer. waa paying th penalty for hia crime st the penitentiary here today, the maa through whose body volts of electricity electri-city were oourslag. etrugsied tor twenty-eight mtuutee with superhuman super-human strength, and finally broke the leather straps that, bound his arms and legs to the death chair. After breaking the St rape, the negro toppled to tha floor and apparently succumbed, but an examination by the prison physician revealed the fact that ha was slowly reviving. re-viving. His body was again strapped to the chair aad tso volte turned on. Several Sev-eral mlnutee elapssd before life waa extinct. |