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Show thMTdems Of the Electrocution of the Four Murderers. , The Fact Fully Established that Com plete Dissolution is Not Effected by the First Electric Shock. Sing Sixo, N. Y., July 7. Four murderers mur-derers were put to death by electricity in tin States prison here early this morning. The men were Jacob Slo-cuni, Slo-cuni, who killed his wife on Deeenihel 31, Ife'SM; Harris A. Smiler, rx-Salva-tiuii Army Captain and bigamist, who urdered his second wile April 1 SO ; JoHep'i Wood, negro, the aqueduct la-boter la-boter wlio murdered his fellow laborer, an Italian named Carlo Kul'i, in May, 18.SM, and Shibuya Jugiro, the Japanese j sailor, wlio brutally killed his fellow I countryman. Murra Cai::ii. The exeeut ion of the four men is declared de-clared to have been perfe'-iiv successful and without any id the Loin ts attending attend-ing the execution of the murderer Kemmler. at Aulmrn piiso;:. There are, however, statements from witnesses which do not confirm tli ;..-sei tior.s h officials. There is an interesting fact coiinec;d with th.; experiments made yesterday in the piesemvoi w itnesses of io-day h ele-tr cui ion which lias a hearing hear-ing on tlie seeming inellicici:c of single contact, a horse v..s brought in to oe killed. The dynamo was run up t; a speed which would generate from 1500 to 1(100 volts, the force of the current which it had been determined would le turned into the bodies of tlie condemned con-demned men to-day. The lirst contact, on account of tlie greater resistance of the animal, was twenty-live seconds. It did not kill the animal. . It seemed to have stunned him, and a second current cur-rent and a third were turned on before the work was completed. The necessity neces-sity of two contacts, which is ailinned toliavelieentheca.se in each electro ! cutinn to-day, finds its excuse, if not its j explanation, in tlie exjierience with the i horse at yesterday's experiment. The ! w itnesses of the execution signed an i agreement last night that they would ; not reveal what occulted within the ' execution chamber. ! Autopsies were performed by 4 t o'clock this afternoon, and a corps of j plnsicians left the depot a short time j after for New York and Albany. Dr. 1 McDonald, who conducted the execution execu-tion and autopsy, was Msked lor a statement. lie declined to give any information, savingthe result would !e given out in Albany from official sources. sour-ces. He was asked to deny t he state-j ment that the men did not die in- j htantly. "I have nothing to say as to that; j unconciousness was immediate and j the men suffered no pain. They made j no ressitance at all." j "Do you deny they wee burned?" j "I decline to be interviewed on that j point." I Dr. Ward was asked: "Did the lirst I shock kill the men?" and he said "I j do not care to answer that. I think the execution was successful." j . The bodies of Jugtro; Wood and Slo- j - WMl8!!i I W J' will be removed by his wife in I tln.".orning. ,,.,' I Kfvo MSfl, X. Y.. July 7 When i all preparations ""o vx......-. - 1 morning. Warden Brown, Deputy -Warden Cannmiuhton and two keepers' went to Slocuun'e cell. He was quickly marched into the execution chamber. When the iron door had been closed behind the parly, Slocum stood -t ; and stolid. He showed no depth of interest in the 'ceremtvoy inwhwJi .be whs to be the, participant. ' , waiden did not ask t&Trirvi'Cr - lie "J1"1 n?" tidrw W sa" 5nd fie did not 'volunteer Urvllnmr. The rnsouer walked uiUvto the chair and sat down. The v'n'tkii8 assistant stepped forward nd drew across his cnest and under his arms heavy straps, winch were se- fucipnl tothe back of the chair. T..enalout his wrisus and over his arms ; tliev drew other straps, which they , burl led closely, so that no si raining . under the influence of the current oil electricity could throw tt-e liiy into uclv contort'ons or ino H from the , position in which the body was placed : . Two electrodes pressed against it, j i.nd formed a circuit, thronuh which the current from the dynamos would be plaving. His legs were qutck-lv qutck-lv strapped to the legs of the chair. The last stra" to I put in place were the ones across the lace. 'I hey were belts rather than straps; one was drawn .11.. i ,,f iii unsoner. and across me "-" ' v tiartly over his mouth, but not so tar as to prevent speech. The other was fastened fas-tened over his eves, and pressed down Wer his nose. When the straps were all in place, the figure "4" alwve. his head was loosened and brought down so the electrode fastened to the end ot i ,t at the base of the coil spring hung in i ; front of his forehead. When the sponge, in tl e electrode was adjusted, the el;-c- ! trode was fastened in position bv a Mrap passing about his head. Then the second electrode was put in place. The right hv of the jiiisoner s trousers had Un split up the Mle so that the electrode could le lwund to the calf of the leg. It was fastened in T.lee. Then the sixmges in the elec trodes were thoroughly saturated with . saltwater. Then the doctors aca.n j carefullv examinwi the straps. -War-; den Brown stood aside a, a mere lookern,.,. As the 'doctors hmshed ; their quick inspection o the straps, . ihe"-nodded to Dr. McD.nld,. who dmpped a handkerchief Uectr.-oa , Davis shifts the switch bar, which threw the whole strength of the current into th circuit pass.ng to the death chair The turning on of this current was the signal for the unknown executioner execu-tioner (believed to be a convict) within the closet Almost simultaneously witti the turning of the current he shitted ' the switch. In an instant the liody in Ithechairstiuenea against me mw-i Every muscle was lirmlv set, and the straps strained; their edges pressed I ji, intn thfi vieldine tlesh of the j face and gripped the clothing tightly, j The expression of the face was lost j under the broad bands drawn across the eyes, nose and chin, but the skin j exposed to the view turned purple red. ' ' When Dr. McDonald's stop watch had I maiked twenty seconds, he nodded to ' Electrician Davis, who turned off the , current. The effect on the body of , -Klocurn w8 almost instantaneous. From a position of great muscular iic-, tivitv it suddenly subsided into ai , hollow-chested collapse. Instead of straining, against the straps, it hn2 against them limp and unsteady. A moment of uncertainty iollowed Would the dead Man appear to revive as Kemmler had done? The seconds ' passed slowlv. H'w many of them is n.t known, but in less than a minute s Fpaee., there came between the bps of the paUid face hanging in the death harness, a nish of air, which whistled between the half ci nched teeth, and ended in a half sigh, half groan. Only once did the limbs seem to contract. As quickly as Dr. McPoiia'd could raise his hand to give the signal, tli- electrician elec-trician threw the switch, the electric current rushed through the death circuit, cir-cuit, and the body in the chair stiffened stif-fened again against the straps. The time on this contact was not made public. Dr. McDonald has a record of it. The stopwatch did not regulate the length of the contact this time. The same unhappy event that brought Kemmler's execution to a close, made a sudden end of Slocutn's expei iejice-in the death' chair. The skin and tlesh ot the leg, and almost immediately afterwards after-wards the skin of the forehead, began to smoke. Dr. McDonald again signaled sig-naled the electrician to turn the sw itch. The current was withdrawn, and instantly in-stantly the body collapsed again. This time there was no response from the muscles. Slocuni hung silent and motionless mo-tionless in the straps. There was no doubt Slocum was dead. When the straps were unbuckled, unlike Kemmler, Slocmn's remains were so limp that they would havt shpped from the chair as the lasi strap was unfastened had not the at-b-ii'iaiit-; held them in place. The second of the condemned mei. chosen w as Sniiler, the alva; ion Aran bi.ami-t, who murdered one of hi- w.ves. lie came with a calm step, supported sup-ported by the Rev. Mr. Kihicrmn on on si. ii', and the Uev. Mr. Iiw on the oihir. Like Slocum, he stepped forward for-ward without summons and seated himself, j. lacing his hands on the arms of ehaii and waiting for attendants to bind him. The attendants busied i heiiweivcs with the straps aga'n. Smi-h-r sat calmly, looking ahead, until the bandage was drawn across ids eves. Again the straps and i buckles were inspected; again the white handkerchief fell. The electrician threw the switch and in a moment in re the straps tightened tight-ened under the strain of the taut muscles mus-cles as the elceti iccui rent shot through the body. The contact in this ease, as in the other, was tweidy seconds. The current measured some loOO volts. At the end of the twenty seconds the cur-lent cur-lent was turned off, but only for a minute. min-ute. The chest of the man in the chaii b' gan to heave and the current was turned on once more until, as in the case of Slocum. it burned the f'.esfi, then it was shut oil' again and after a delay, which showed there was no chance of revival, the body was unstrapped un-strapped and taken from the cl air to the autopsy room. Wood was the third to be executed. He came willin ly, accompanied by I two prk-sts, and went through the or-i deal bravely, with substantially the same results. The fourth man to meet death was the Japanese, Jugiro. It had been expected ex-pected if any of the prisoners made any resistance to being placed in the chair it would lie he. ' Hut a long term of confinement had bowed Jugiro into tame submission. When the warden and keepers came to his cell he sprang up and followed them quietly. His w as perhaps the most repulsive face that had stared at the witnesses from the chair. It was distinctly brutal. lie took hie place in the "chair quietly, and suffered the attendants io bind him without protest, and stolidly awaited the shock. It came to him as to ttp other three, and with like results. TI he lirst contact did not destru wall thjl apiearanee of fife, and the secom? -n led the flesh. In Kemmler's cpay' limrning of the not all wetted. vil In all the four ci w-0 wetted constantly .V y!XWie'n burned. .Vy ' ' - The autopsr on the ixes w menced early in the morning and lasted until well along in the afternoon Thoss who conducted the operation were Drs. McDonald, Racial. &oth-wick, &oth-wick, Ddniels and Turing y. The, hndv of 3zmW the first w be placed under the dissecting inife. As to the I result of these examinations, there appears ap-pears to' he a diiierence of opinion among those w ho took part in the au-! au-! topsv. Nime physicians report that no I burns or marks were discovered, while S others tell exactly the opposite story. j Heavy K-.tiu in Kansas. Kansas City, July 7. Dispatches from various parts of eastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri, state heavy rains prevailed to-day. At McPherson. the rainfall was three inches. Considerable Consid-erable damage was done to wheat. Severe lightning accompanied the storm, doing much damage. 1 he heavy rainfall has caused the Missouri river I to atrain commence to rise. It has risen i. ightinches in the past twenty lour hours. It had just receded far enough to allow the people recently uriven I from their homes to resume residence, land if it continues to rise they will again be forced to abandon them. Gooil Tor the Convict Surgeon. Baton KoC(je, La.. July 7. From latest information obtainable it seems the total damage by yesterday's cyclone will be not less than (0,bO(i. The es-timated es-timated loss at the penitentiary is o(,- 000 The injuries of Mrs. Colton are fatal John Faicher, one of the injured convicts, died to-day. Many convicts : distinguished themselves by heroic j work in behalf of their sufferine fellows. Before Baton Rouge surcrenns reached 1 thM prison, one convict, Edward Dew-I Dew-I itt had set seven broken leus, several fractured arms, and bandaged lnnum-j lnnum-j erable cuts. " A Heavy Fire. Ci.akksville, Tcun., July ". Mer-riwether Mer-riwether & Co's. tobacco warehouse containing 1.500 hogsheads of tobacco and Draper Bros", stable containing , twenty-two mules.burned to-night. The j lire broke out in the stable, and at once spread to the warehouse. I n the latt er j were 1,800 hogsheads of tobacco. Only 300 hogsheads were saved. The loss is over $140,000. Origin not known. ! IllHhop P winger Very I.nw. ! Ft. Waysk, Ind., July T.-llector Lfosenh Dwinger, bishop of this Catholic diocese, is very ill and has lieen given or by his attending physician. |