Show 4 1 w pi I 1 t L E ATU PENAL ily 1 1 I 1 hi in auburn prison avonts for the of uis alvire 1 THE A fillible ril lIBLE murp I 1 grelli fit or sews to 0 o I 1 fend cina this so alloe a of a as Montro asly cruel THE OF aelier A 1 murderer Bard eMr at list sul rs the lh death rea alti bill bj by I 1 I 1 anal ac BIRS il a in aug AU C tha the invited guests are now all fill in the prison 1 there here is ft a large crowd d antho on alie tit side awaiting developments develop mente R 7 aoa a in aug 6 the sentence of if the law haa been passed p reed upon poll Nor antler and lie has been executed M atie w trial of 0 a new means of taking human life while promote I 1 by human ino motives tives has ha resulted in a cirk fick ening spectacle presented by a pinioned wretch at whose who e ital vital center was kept pending for or soma moments an at alternating current of 0 electricity billich vil lich t bough though it ultimately ul ti destroyed destro ed dis tits life subjected the criminal to a torture of which no living being has a edge and none can deF deferino eribo the imperfect imper feit registry of the currents ur rente pre aare or faulty contact of the electrodes I 1 bleb which presented instantaneous the tits layman may gaii some conception nf of lie tire process of 0 thia this killin ing by the tire statement made thit that a person hose holy body should be ato chalen into fraz fragments could not hae have suffered red any euch such pain as did kemmler hobe hose nerve cells and tissues were dit integrated not by a flah sh ss as designed but by the relatively bow stroked of the electric ban hammers sitters upon them A hether whether the blood retains its normal consistency or w whether hether it is is partially or wholly fluidized by the divorce of oxygen from the blood corpuscles corpus cles ca cm on only be determined by the autopsy au which w aich is is about to bo be commenced kemm lere lers nerve brae WA something wonderful vond erful hc lie esever faltered lie ile directed the adjustment juat ment of in in the chair and counseled the warden to moderation to secure perfect safety tb the 0 shock shoe k was given at 0 41 and was continued about elgh eighteen teen seconds two minutes after the current was cut off there waa was respiration As so it as possible the current was returned then cut cl cir and azain ajain respiration le was eident evident after a it few saliva cama frem tho the mouth the cheat heaved and there was a wheezing in the throat the fluid was n again put to the prisoner who the doctors remarked was a unconscious from the tile ament of the first thock after a ehrl time smoke appeared at the base the flesh was burning the was most trying the man mail the doctors elated stated however bow ever oaf derod no pain the ward warden I 1 o 0 that the voltage at the first check was ft as 1800 volts 1 which ran down to a point not named after the third contact of four minutes kemmler was declared dead the wardens certificate of death was signed by all present and the par party ty broke op up at 7 30 0 O to meet at 81 8 15 5 when the body would ba be reidy ready for tha th autopsy when the mask was taken off Kem Kemm miers lers face his eyes were found halt hall open and hia his expression while not normal or placid was not horrifying to sea in lh the hair chair arbar ArB rR X Y aug C G at 61 8 the door at the right of the e execution acu ecu chair leading toward the execution room opened and warden DUT Duret onH figure appeared in the doorway behind him walked a ebruce looking beroid shouldered little man full bearded with carefully arranged hiir clustering around lua ilia forehead he ile was wag dressed in a euit suit of new clothing dark coat and vest of dark gray material and trousers of mixed yellow pattern this was william kemmler the man mart about to undergo the sentence of death behind him falkel lr dr IV E II If and ch plain yates kemmler was by far albe coolest man in the patty lie ile did not look about the room with any special degree of interest but hesitated as the door closed behind him as though be he did not know exactly what to do give rne too a chair will v yon you eaid said the warden some one q bickly handed him a wooden woolen chair w which it ich he placed in front and a little to t the I 1 is right of the execution chair within a little circle of men kemmler eat sat down composedly looked about him and then up tip and down without art any v evidence of fear or especial special inte interest riat in the event ilia lace face was not nor indifferent lie ile look looked edif if anything as though rather pleased at being the tenter center of curiosity cuno eity warden durston stood at the left of the chair with his hand on the back of it and almost at the moment he lemmler ahmler took his life seat he lie began to speak in short quick periods now ow gentlemen he be eaid said thia is william kemmler I 1 have warned him he be has got to die and slid it if he has anything to eay say he lie will say it ar the warden fint finished kemmler glanced up and said in a 8 high and its k keyed ed voice without any hesitation and as he had prepared himself with a speech wel well i I 1 wish everyone 9 olech luck in this world and I 1 think I 1 am going to a good place though the tb papers have been 8 baying it ying a lot of stair that it so all I 1 have to 11 es eay title with the conclusion of the speech he lie turned bis his back towar toward d the jary ury took off hie his coat cost and handed it to the warden this ed the fact that 41 bole had been cut from the band of the th trousers down so as to expose tho the bam of ill th abo 0 s spine pine when t the b e coat was off ox kemmler turned in the direction of the door through which he bad come into the room and began to unbutton his vest atthe at the same time the ward waiden endrew drew the interfering drapery of hie his shirt through the bole hole in the tron trousers sers and cut it off so as to leave a little surface of flesh against which one of the electrodes was to press absolutely bare and warden durston called attention to tho the fact that it was not necessary necee eary to remove th the vest and demmler Kem oaler calmly buttoned it again and carefully arranged his tie dont hurry burry about this matter eaid said the warden bo be perfectly cool caspel was perfectly factly cool he was wa by ail all odds the coolest man in the room room when hie his tie was arrange arranged lie to eat sat down in the electric chair as quietly aa as though be was bitting eitting down own to dinner warden durston sto stood I 1 on the right and general keeling neeling of albany on the left they began begin immediately to adjust th the 0 straps the condemned man holding tip up it hie is arms so aa as to give them every assistance when the straps had been adjusted about the body the arms were fas feted down and then the warden I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 aw I 1 i 2 a zb Ja aaA I 1 9 I 1 over and anti parted Kemm Kemna leri lers leet to fo as to bring tho the logs legs near tile f lege begs of the chair while V hile the straps were being arranged kemmler eaid said rake yoa dorit ha in a burry he lie enro sure that thing is all liht iwo two or three times timea he lie repeated the these phrases warden reassured reassure 1 him with the remark that it would not hurt hita him and that he would be b with lum him all through but it was wa not fear that kemmler felt it WM was rather a certain ardein in the exactness of the tits experiment he ile seemed to t ibave have greater interest to its than thoo those who had made the preparations lor for it and who were watching ft atchin its progress to the inal fatal con vla cl ulon tion when the straps had bad been adjusted the wardan placed hie tits hand on head bead and held it against the rubber cushion cue hion which ran rail down dawn the back of the chair Kemm lere eyes were ere turned toward the opposite bide side of the room before they had follo followed ed the warden in bis his movements move meole about then the condemned man mide made ore one or two remarks in a per factly clear and composed tone ol 01 vole vol e well I 1 wish everybody rood good lack was one of them and durston floe that things are alt all right was another deputy neeling unfastened the tits thumb screw switch which beld the hick of the chair in place and began to lower it the warden 1 in in the ilia done by holding e head had kemmler mid said chyon had better preen that down further I 1 guess press that down so the head as tin camped and pressed borther r down while this was being done tone kemmler said well I 1 want to do the best I 1 can I 1 can cant t do any better than that warden burston took in ill his hand the r which was to bead bu adjusted to Kem miers head there wai aico alto a broad leather which went across the ilia forehead and chin top iho the strap strip pressed down against tho the noeo nose of kemmler Ken imler until it flattened it down slightly oer over hia his faco face iho the garnem was then put in place tire chaplain ho he was standing nar n a ar hie tile chair sail god bless you kemmler and ad the be condemned man answered thank you softly tro too door leading e ad ng into the room where the switches were ar a rangel was partly open A mn man stood in in tits doorway beyond him there were two other men which one of hem them was to touch the lever and make the connection with the chair was not known warden durston o 0 says s it will never be know known n the dynamo in tho the machine shop via was running at a good speed and the tile volt olt matro metro on the tire wall registered a little more allan a thousand volts the warden turned to the doctora as immediately around the exe clatl 0 chair and sai 1 1 I DJ athe tha d doctora actori 83 say y it is all right lit had a minute elapsed sines the adjustment of 1 the straps there was no time for kemmler to have weakened een even if it his marvelous courage had not been equal to the test of further delay cut but there was no fear that be he would have i lost courage cour aeo lie ile was a calm in tho the ct chair hair all through as he lie had baen ba torn fore he entered the room at the wardens request dr felt stepped fora forward ard with a long syringe in its h hand and deftly wetted two to sponges fifth were at the elect electrodes one on tha the top of Kem Kemm miers lera head and the other at the biso bite of the spine tho the water which ho he put on th them cru was impregnated with silt exit dr 8 p itzka answered answer od the tile wardens question with a short all right winch was wits echoed by the others about lum him I heady teady said durston Durs Dur too stort and then good bye he ile stepped to the door and through the opening eaid said to some one in tho the next room with certainty i but to whom will probably never nei er bf bri knon everything ia to reily ready an almost immediate response ref ponee and at 0 43 si the electric current was turned othere 01 wai was a cudden sudden cn of the tile frame in tha he chair a spasm went over kemmler from head bead to foot confined by the tile traps and springs that held him firmly eo so that no limb or other part of he the bod body 7 stirred more mare than a small fraction friction of OL an inch from its hepting place the twitching that the loup lous cles of the face underwent eave it for a moment the expression of pain but bat no cry eel from the lips which were f ame rae to move at will no sound came forth to suggest that consciousness lasted more than an infinitely email small traction rac tion a second beyond the calculation of of the I 1 human I 1 mind the body remained in in a rigid position for seventeen seconds the jury and arid witnesses who had remained seated up tip to this moment came hurriedly forward and burrou surrounded lid the chair there was no movement of the body beyond the first convulsion Islon it was no inviting g sight this man in bis hie shirt sleeves sleeve sn hound bound hand foot body and nen even head with ith a heavy frame work pres down dow n on the top of his skull dr mcdonald held a stop watch in hie ilia hand and anti as the seconds flew flow by be he noted their pa passage dr too looked at theston the stop watch and as the bentli second expert d lie cried out S stop top stop aried other voices about the warden turned to the tho doorway and called Sto topi pill to the tile man at the lever A quick movement of the arm and the tile electric current wai was switched off there was wa a relation relaxation of the body in the chair hes iles dead said sp itzka calmly dr hatch was bending over the body looking at ha the exposed skin suddenly he cried out sharply dr acu maid see that rupture in a moment doctors and alceon mcdonald bad had leaned oyer and were looking where dr latch was pointing at a little red spot on the liand hand which on the right arm of the chair the index finger of the hand had curved backward as the muscles con contracted and scraped a small smal biolo in tho the ekin skin at tho the base of the thumb on the back of the hand there was nothing strange in tins this alone but the little rupture was dropping blood turn the current on instantly 8 the man is ie not dead I 1 cried tied hp itzka faces grew grow white and forms fell back from front the ellair the warden sprang to the doorway and cried out turn on tho the current but the current cui rent could not bo be turned on NV when hen tho the signal to stop bad had come the operator had the little button which gave the sign to tho the engineer to stop the dynamo the dynamo was almost at a stand standstill still and the volt meter registered an almost imperceptible current the tito operator a sprang prang to the button and gave a sharp quick signal there was a rapid response but it was not quick enough to anticipate antici pato the sign of returning con coa as tire group grout of horror stricken witnesses stood helplessly by all eyes ie were fixed on tho the chair Kemm lere lips began to drop spittle and in a moment more the chest moved and from the mouth came a heavy eten bound sound quickening and increasing with every te there was no voice but that odthe of the warden crying to the operator to turn on the current and a wheezing ezlig sound bound a bait half groan groin forced itself A b tightly closed lip lips and sounded through the tile still chamber with ghastly distinctness some of the witnesses turned away 1 I 1 az 11 ai from the sight right and one fainted it seemed a long time ime in in reaching aching ro the climax in reality there were viere but bu t seventy three seconds in in the interval which elapsed between the moment chien the firpi pound found issued from Komm kemmler lers e lips until tho tile response to the signal came from the dynamo room it came with the caroe fame end denness deni teas that marked the fiant shock which passed through body 1 the he round sound which had horrified the listeners about the chair was cut off sharply ae as body orce more became rigid A slimy ooze still dropped from the month mouth and slowly down the tile iward heard and on the tits gray vest beet twice there were of the body ne am the electricians in the next room throw the current currenton on sad and off there was to be b no mistake thie this time about the killing the dynamo WAS run up 0 to o lie tire highest appedu and again the full fill of 2000 J volts sent through the body mow ilow long thie this was kept in in action no one knows to the excited group about the chair it seemed an ra interminable time lr dr gardels who joked at his ilia watch excitedly and who thought he baliad had an approximate idea of the time it least eaid said it a halt minutes in ill all ube the wardens assistant who stood over the dynamo said that on oil the second signal the machinery ran only three thres and ind a half minutes altogether no one was anxious to stop all dreaded the tile responsibility of 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