Show DEATH BY GAS fOR MURDERER GAINS FAVOR Quickest Known Method of Producing Oblivion Claim C C CITY Nv Nov Peb leb 9 Prom From IW From the an ancient lent das dar when wh condemn condemned d men w were re broken on the tho who wheel or burned to the time timea a man was wo executed e by drifting Instantly and painlessly Into a sleep leading to death the th cycle In call capi cap cap- capital tal punishment had hod widened In mercy today a as the th record wa closed In the th case cas of ot the Chinese tong alay slayer r whose lit au taken by lethal gas s at the th state stat prison hero here y The Tho Th tour four our official physicians the chemists In charge chare of oC the th execution lion tion ind nd nd Warden Denver S Dickerson Dick Dick Dick- Dickron croon erson ron were er re agreed that lethal gas had proved the th swiftest and most moet humane form ot of death let et Inflicted Gee Jon the condemned manHat man Rat eat trapped strapped In a ch chair lr In the tho th stone stono del death chamber facing them his features a i 1 he died The Tho expressed the th belief that he did not suffer but that he lap lapsed od Into unconsciousness with the first breath of ot the th gas ca They hesitated to recommend lethal gas as a 4 permanent form of o only because of ot the danger attend I attendant ant tint to others other In the th presence ot of large larKo quantities of ot the th gas go R TIU ILL They pronounced It less Ieee barrow horrow harrow Ing and its less painful than electro electro- electroCution Cution hanging or shooting Gpo Gee G Jon seemed to be I dead minutes after atter aft r the tho th gas ras was wa turned on but It was more mor than two hours before the th chamber was wae consider considered ed free of oC pas gal and the physicians could get ft In to certify the th mans man's death Some of ot the th physicIans physician thought death had ensued WIthin a minute and the tb mans man's man head mere mere- merely more mere merely ly Iy had continued to move as a anus mUI- mus muscular cular r reaction T TWO 0 l SED Two To T o Quarts of or a acid solution were used In the th exe exe- exe x cullon The flue acid brought ht from Lo Los Ang Angeles Jes by motor because b causo no railroad would transport th the dead dead- deadly dead deadly ly consignment was as sent through the floor of ot tho the room In a tine fine liquId spray It was WS W S c explained that the th temperature of or the death mb chamber r was wa less les than iO 50 5 0 d degrees and that had It been 70 10 or more moreth the acid would ha ie more quickly and death would ha haie 0 come corne corn even cven more swiftly than It did The Th gas cas was allowed to re- re remain re remain main In the cell coil tor for halt half an hour before the tho chemists started pump pump- pumpIng pumping pump Ins Ing It outS outS out outS S C Dinsmore chemist ho iho had r recommended commended lo to 10 as the th most mot effective acid 89 present at t the tho th execution He Ho said lie he considered It tho the quickest known kno method of ot producIng ob- ob ob 11 Ion tollow followed d by death th It was the th first execution In Ne- Ne Nevada Nevada Ne Nevada vada since Bince 1913 when R a man was executed d by a B firing squad SQual Un- Un Un Under der dee the present state law 10 lethal trail gas Is tho the only form torm of capital pun pun- pun punishment op 00 |