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Show MURDERERS NOT KILLED. Many Men Electrocuted Would Do Buried Alive If It Were Not for Autopsy. New York, Aug. 16 I' A Rtratton, vice president of an electric light company com-pany In Westchester county, this State, sns murderers sentenced to die In the clectrlo chnlr aro frequently not killed lay the electrlo current nnd thnt they would ho hurled alive If It weio not for the autopsy which follows the electrocution. electro-cution. Mr. Htntton sns "Nearly ever) week wo have men shocked hy higher voltage currents thnn me used in tho electric chair In King Hlng, et they come around nil right nfter a, few dajs treutnunt This being the inse, Is It lint probihlo thnt somo nf tlm niurdeiers who nre sen-tenced sen-tenced to the electilc ill air could be lesuncltnted If t y renlvcd piompt inedlnil attention nnd tho tunc (. lie (hut Isglvui In one of our linemen nfter he liicLts with an accident? I havo often thought that n great many people who au supposed to have been electlo-LUted electlo-LUted nre In realltj hurled alive" |