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.
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