THE DEATH CHAIR Slocum Was the First Victim at Sing Sing. KILLED AT AN EARLY HOUR ffte First Man to Share Kemmlcr'i Fate. Vk Kx-Itateball Player Don to Death taa the Early Morning A Report That All the Other Murderers Were Alio Baeented tj" Klectrlelty Immediately After Alncnm Paid the Death Penalty. BtHO Sino, N. y., July 7. Slooum waa tbt first of the condemned murderers to fee put to death. He was electrocuted A 4.-43 a. m. It is claimed that Joseph Wood, Harris A Smller and Schihiok Jugiro were also fettled by electricity In the order named Aer Slocum died. t&NQ Srso, July 7. The second victim was Smiler and the time 5:13 a., m. Srao Sing, N. Y., July 7. It is now be Bered that the four condemned men will 4I today some time. At 12:05 the warden bad along talk with the United Press ejomspondent in front of the prison. The men are all awake," he said. "I waa Just down to see them. They are very quiet, but they evidently know that some thing is coming." Mr. Brown denied that Deputy Attorney General Hogan had brought any papers of aa official character with him. "He brought himself and nothing else," said he. "The death warrants came here at the time the men were Inst resentenced. Let me see. That was June 2, I think. I have had them in my safe ever since." All Four Would Die. Mr. Brown said that no papers had been served on him in the Wood case. He said he had the opinion of the at torney general on the appeal put for ward by Wood's lawyer as a claim for a stay of exe cution. He could not say what it was, but he said: "If no other pa pers are served on me before the WARDEN BROWN. eution you can say that all four men will be executed." This would seem to dispose of Wood's last hope. The Witnesses Do Not Know. Tfce warden said that most of the wit aesaes were asleep. "They are like you," ha amid. "They would like to know when ttlathing is going to take place; but tbey do not know aay more about it than you do. Thare is no one knows when it is olng to occur fat me." The war den, aaid that he dM not know whether he would (at any sleep or a. He has not had any sleep tinee Saturday JOSEPH WOOD. night. The guard over the condemned ktn remains unchanged. Partridge and Baxter, who have kept the night watch lar many months, were on duty In the andemned cells last night. They know Making of the time set for the execution. Father Creedon and Father Lynch were in tha prison, at midnight as was Mr. Edger tan. the prison chaplain. They will join tha condemned some time before the hour sat for the execution. They will probably ha the first to know what the hour is. Hope for Wood. At 1 a. m. Colonel Haire and George C. Hooper arrived from New York city. Haire la attorney for Wood and Hooper attorney lar Slocum. They drove immediately to tha prison. Mr. Haire had in his pocket a certified copy of the petition for habeas aarpus filed by hira with Judge Lacombe. Hooper had no papers with him. The fjaards stopped the two attorneys at the terrace until Head Keeper Connaughton aame forward and gave Mr. Haire permis sion to enter and interview the warden. 1 Haire soon left the building to find a notary public for the purpose of swearing taaome paper to be filed with the warden tn support of his claim for a stay. The warden refused to make any statement onttl Haire'a return. The Witnesses at the Killing. Twenty-two persons who will be present at the first killing were in Sing Sing prison taat night. They were Dr. Carlos F. Mc Donald, president of the state board of charities; Professor L. H. Landy, of Colum bia college, an eminent nerve specialist; Dr. Alplionso I). Rockwell, therapeutical expert, of Buffalo; Dr. Franklin Town send, an eminent practitioner, of Albany; Dr. Samuel B. Ward, of Albany, formerly Grover Cleveland's physician; Dr. K. H. Soothwick, the Buffalo dentiwt, who is the father of the law under which the klll- DEATH CHAIR, tog will be done; Dr. Charles E. Daniels, of Buffalo, the post mortem examluer, who directed the autopsy on Kemmler'a body; Deputy Attorney General Hogan, who will cliriictly reprenent the state; Dr. Hiram Baker, of Sing Sing; Warden Charles Duriiton, of Auburn prison ; Father John II. Creedon and the Kev. Silas W. Edgei'ton, prison chaplain; Father Ho gan, HKNlMnnt pastor of St. Augustlue'i church; Electrician E. F. Davis, who will control the pluut on the fatul hour; War den William T. Brown, of Slug Sing it ' prison, and seven deputies chosen from among (he guards of the prison. The brutal animal instincts that led Jugiro to murder Muri Commi have been awakened and he swears that he will never go to the chair, but will kill himself. When trying to place him in a barber's chair to shave him he fought so that it had to be given up. It is thought he will try to kill the guards who take hira. He thinks he Is to be placed in the chair and torn to pieces. He has been brooding over the pictures in a magazine for a week and wherever a chair appears he has turned a loaf down. He May Try Murder. Some time ago Jugiro was taken to the barber to have his hair cut. He did not want to go. When the guard went in Ju giro fell upon him. Other guards came to the assistance of their cotnpanlon. Then a battle began that showed how powerful Jugiro Is. He threw the guards right and left. They used their clubs, but that did not quiet him. It took a dozen men to hold him until shackles were put on. Since then Jugiro has been morose and quarrelsome. Certain officials of the prison say that Jugiro will try to kill the man who enters the cell to take him out. Troubles of the Reporters. From midnight until the warden arrived the newspaper nien were permitted to oc cupy the Iron steps of the prison and the prison office. His son was in charge dur ing that time. When the warden reached town himself he came at once to the jail. Five min utes after he had got Inside Princi pal Keeper Con naughton came out, and In an apologizing way began to point out thtt IwAtitii.a nf tha site across the ? Btreet on the grass or the stone wall. Then the men with Winchesters came out and relieved the gunrils, who had been on duty all night. From that time on the street woe closed to the newspaper men. If a man stepped toward the middle of the street a rifle was pointed at him and he was ordered to "Go back! Go back!" The guards were impudent. One named Mahr, who comes from Xewburg. the town wheVe the warden comes from, in re ply to a civil question asked by a man who had the right to the information he de sired, Baid: "That's none of your business. Go back there. Ain't you got orders to keep off of heref" The Warden Criticised. The warden's interpretation of the law is receiving a good deal of comment just now. He assumes that because the law contains a clause that the papers shall not print facta, it is his duty to prevent them from getting the facts. His duty, be thinks, makes him a press dictator. He has even gone so far as to say he will not make public the names of the witnesses after the execution is over. This means that he assumes he has the right to take human life and make every one take his word without any corrobora tion that it was done In a legal way. The placing of his men with Winchester rifles to shoot down men who are doing their duty in a place where tbey have a right with every other citizen of the state to be caps the climax. Conduct of the Murderers. The day saw little difference In the bear ing of the condemned men. They under stand, or at least three of them, Wood, Smiler and Slocum do, that this is the first day of their last week of life, and they know that probably the grim scene in the wooden death chamber is but a few hours away. Yet thoir demeanor is not percepti bly changed. Possibly they are a little more religious ly inclined, but for the last few days all of them except the stalwart and stubborn Jap have given little heed to other things than their prepa ration for that one supreme instant before oblivion overtakes them. Of the three men who are ready for the coming of the mysterious bolt of death, Wood, the negro, is best pre pared and is most confident. The re ligion which he professes seems to be real. It has not SMILER. the false ring which marks so many of the professed conversions nnder such distress ing circumstances. The sure coming of death at a specified time seems not to have been the great influencing motive in Wood's profession. He seems to have embraced religion willingly and gladly at the very first op portunity. So the time at which he shall be called from his cell and asked to walk through that iron doorway to his death matters not much to Wood. In Self Defense. It is worthy of comment that he doesn't cease to proclaim himself innocent of the frightful charge of murder. He maintains as stoutly as ever that the killing of the Italian Rufil was done in self defense. And there are not a few men here who believe him. Thinks It Will lie a Failure. N. . Nostrand, superintendent of the electric lighting companies of both Sing Sing and Peekskill, has tried several times to have things arranged so that he can be present at the killing of the four men. He is an expert electri cian, and has, made a study of the effect of elec tricity on human beings, lie want ed to get into the prison as a scient ist, but he will not be admitted. Ho has examined the entire electrical plaut in Slug Sing prison. j "The boilers and engine are more pow erful than those la use at Auburn," said Mr. NoBtrand. "The dynamo is a perfect apparatus. It will generate '-',000 volts, ami 2,000 volts will bo shot Into the men who sit In the chair. , I do not think the killing will be a success., , ., "It is almost iiupOKsible to get a perfect contact. The sponges will be dried and possibly burned. I do not think death will be instantaneous in every case. If any one man has a weak heart and gets ex cited the chances are that he will die at the first shock. With the strong men Jugiro and Wood it. will be different. They will not (lie easily. The electric cur reut will have to be applied longer to tbein, and I believe trouble may be expected." . Mr. Nostrand says that no one directly SLOCl'M. JUUIKO. connected with an electric lighting coin pany will be a witness to the killing. THE CRIMES OF THE MEN. Two Were Wife Blarer. Wood Killed an Italian, and Jng-lro a Japanese. New York, July 7. Jnmes J. Slocum is an ex-baseball player. He lived at No. 7 Cherry streets On the lost night of De cember. 1WW. he killed his wife with an ax He was tried, convicted, and in March of last year he was sentenced to death by o unge Alanine. He was to be executed in the week beginning Msv 8. 18H9. John B. Heinzelman, who defended him, had never been admitted to the bar, and a stay was secured on the ground of illegal defense, Harris A. Smiler was formerly a Salva tion Army officer and had no less than three wives. When one of them, Maggie Drainey, refused to live with him, because of his brutality, he shot her. This was April 13, 1879, at 284 Seventh avenue. The week originally set for his execution be gan April 4, 1880, but his lawyer, Ambrose H. Purdy, appealed and several stays were granted. Joseph Wood, the condemned negro, was a laborer on the new Croton aqueduct. In May, 1RSO, he killed an Italian named Carlo Ruffi, a fellow workman, In a pay day row. In March 185K), Recorder Smyth sen tenced him to be executed in the week be ginning May lii of last year. Robert J. Haire carried his case to the court of ap peals and the supreme court, but with no success. The ground on which the ap peals were based were that no colored men were on the jury. Shibuya Jugiro, better known as "the Jap," because of his nationality, got into a row iu a James street sailors' boarding house. He stabbed Mura Canni, one of the combatants. In December last he was sentenced to die In the week beginning Fob. 3. Lawyer Heinzelman, who also had charge of his case, took an appeal, and the conviction was affirmed by the court of appeals. The case was then taken to the United States supreme court, which also affirmed the original decision. DREW ASKED TO RESIGN. The Ksamlner Says Ills Had Mistake Was lmrljr an Accident. Washington-, July 7. Controller Lacey has written to Bank Examiner Drew re questing his resignation. No reply has been received frcm Drew. The corre spondence between Controller Lacey and Drew has been made public. Under date of June 29 the controller asked Drewtoex plain why he hnd omitted to state in his report of Jan. 24, 1891, that the Keystone bank owed the clearing house (544,851.46, said indebtedness beiug secured by pledge of its notes and bills amounting to (729, 808.93, which assets were then held by the clearing house committee and were not in the custody of the bank. The following day Drew replied: "I waa confounded at the amission, and I can ac count for it only that, purposely not in cluding it in the report, I intended to in clude and explain it in my letter, which, it appears, I failed to do, although the memoranda for my letter contained refer ence to the subject. In my later reports it was not omitted. The omission was clearly an accident, but was no less calcu lated greatly to mislead. As stated in my letter of transmittal the report was infor mal and incomplete in many respects, owing to the fact that many of the ac counts were then, and for some time after ward, undergoing verification, but not withstanding those embarrassments the omission referred to should not have oc curred, and would not have occurred ex cept by accident as stated. I need not add how greatly I regret the inadvertence." On July 2 Controller Lacey said he had placed the matter before Secretary Foster. He adds: "As a result the conclusion was reached that so important an omission, after fifteen days' investigation of the bank, Is not consistent with the confidence which must necessarily be reposed by the department in the reports of those ap pointed to make examination of national banks. By direction of the secretary I have therefore to request that you forward to this office your resignation as an exam iner of national banks. I cannot close this communication without assuring yon of my sincere regret that anything should have occurred which would render neces sary the severing of your official relations with this bureau." WEDDING BELLS AT WINDSOR. Brilliant Marriage of Princess Louis and Prince Arlbert. London, July 7. The wedding of the Princess Louise was one of the most mag nificent spectacles ever witnessed in Wind sor. Multitudes from London and other places packed the town, and St. George's chapel was choked with the wedding guests, their brilliant attire presenting a scene of splendor unequaled since the marriage of the late Prince Leopold In 1882. Guards of honor were mounted at the castle and at the chapel, and the route down Castle Hill was lined with guards. Frederic Louis Hitter Dead. Pouohkeepsie, N. Y., July 7. A cable gram was received here last night an nouncing the sudden death of Mr. Fred eric Louis Hitter, well known on both sides of the Atlantic as a composer and writer on musical topics, which occurred July 6 at Antwerp. Ha came to America in 1856. He was appointed professor of music at Vassar college the sume year, and since 1874 he has resided in this city. Dr. Spurgeou Silently Iletter. London, July 7. The Rev. Dr. Spur geon Is slightly better. General Markets. New York, July FLOUR Firmer, with a little more doing; fine, S3.25SWI.HS; superfine, t3.tlMl4.uU; Minnusota extra, 8a.8m35.6i); city mill extras, 8'iW 15 for West Indies. WHEAT Opened weak at lo. decline, and fell )ic. more in the early trading. The mar ket subsequently rallied to the opening prices; receipts, 4:iS,7iiU bushels; shipments, i.'l,Uol) biiHUuln; No. 3 rod winter, 81.04, cash; do., July, 81.01; do., August, lc; do., Septem ber, in o. 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