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Show Man Breaks the Straps Which Bind Him to the E'ectric Chair Eddyvllle, Kj-., Aug. 22Wben Alfred Ixcke, negro, a 22-year-old wife murderer, mur-derer, was paying the penalty for his crime at the ponltontiary here today, the man through whose body 2,000 volts of electricity were coursing, struggled for 28 minutes with superhuman super-human strength, and iinally broko the leather straps that bound his arms and legs to tho death chair. After breaking the straps, the negro toppled to tho floor and apparently succumbed, but an examination by the physician revealed tho fact that he was reviving Hia body was again strapped to tho chair and 2500 vol3 turned on. Several minutes elapsed before life was extinct. |