Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. Winnipeg. July 22 3 1 the new method a Complete Success at sing sing. The death equipment. Full description of the apparatus which deals a Swift. Sure and painless death the four murderers who wore killed in one hour and sixty three min of the executed and the apparatus. Eath painless and instantaneous was meted out to i James m. Slocum Harris la. Smiler Joseph Wood land Sci Hook Jugiro by f Means of electrical apparatus in sing sing n. A prison on tuesday 7th july. Too approximate time of the turning on of the current in each Case smiler Wood and Jugiro the first Man died at the last at one hour and sixty Threa minutes in All there was no hitch no Harny Wing spec Tacle Antl the Oyt witnesses of the executions pronounce electrocution a perfect Success. The condemned men bail nothing romantic or otherwise interesting in their histories and their crimes were of a common place and brutal sort. James j. Slocum was a baseball player. He lived at 7 Cherry Street new Tork and on new year s eve 1889, to brained his wife with an fix. Judge Vartino sentenced him die in the week beginning May 5, but his Case was a . Pealed. Jugiro the Jap got into a Row with japanese sailors in a new York James Street boarding House last Winter and stabbed Mura Canni to death. He was first sentenced to die in february. Harris a. Smiler was a salvation army Man with three he shot one of them Maggie drained Many times because so refused to live with him. This was on april 3, 1889, at cs4 seventh Avenue new York. He had been sentenced be fore too. The negro Joseph Wood an Aqueduct labourer and killed an italian named Zileh. Carlo Rufil in a pay Day Row. His fist sentence was for May Isi 0. Binds the thighs tightly to the seat of the and straps bind the legs to a foot rest extending Forward. There Ara few improvements Over the apparatus used at a Ourn. There was on improvement in the form of cup and sponge electrode that makes it fit tighter to the head and spice than did the electrodes which Kemmler squirmed away from ind the straps holding the base of the spine to the negative electrode bind the body be ii ind As Well As in front. Board is on the West Side of the so Serfin which is the fatal switch. It is 5 by eight feet High and consists of a plane of polished Cherry upon which Are fastened various devices for the measurement and regulation of the electric current. It is covered by a sliding door when not in use but during the executions was opened in the death chamber whore the scientific men and indeed All the witnesses could examine it. The Long upright Cherry Box which is seen in the lower right Hans Corner of the switch Board in the picture is the resistance Coil which equalizes the current As is comes from the Dynamo. The Square Box and dial above this is an Edison Ampere meter which measures the current in amperes that is measures its Quantity. The As All present at tha electrocution were ordered to maintain secrecy Tho exact do tails of Tho killing Are not known. By some it was asserted that there were severe mus Cular contractions after the current was Stop Ped and that a second Shock was Given. By others it is denied that there was a second Shock administered. One of the latter wit Nesses admits Tho severe muscular contractions after the current was turned Oil and another witness asserts that one of the Vic Tims legs were burned. All agree however that death was painless and that electrocution As a Means of capital punishment is proven to be a Success. Description of the apparatus. The death chamber in the sing sing prison is a Bare and suggestively 1 o u e i Omo place. There Are three Plain pins Walls about fifteen feet High and one Brick Wall which you soon discover to to the out Side Wall of the condemned prison against the Side of which the death chamber is built. A Large steel door is in the Middle of this trick Wood Wall. This leads into Tho condemned prison. The Metal is painted Green and the door is swung in a setting of great Square Lime Stone blocks giving it a substantial and firm uti look in Strong contrast to Tho Flimsy character of the rest of the building. The opposite Wall of the a Sath chamber is Cut by eight Long narrow windows who Chi Are set High up and Are covered with thin Muslin so that no one can be seen inside from without. There Are four More of these windows besides the Entrance door in the East end of the room. Tho Many windows however shaded As they Are admit very Little Light on a Dull Day and Light the place but dimly at Best. The death chair and the electrical apparatus occupy the West end of the room. The chair faces the East and stands upon a Square of rubber carpeting in front of a closet about five feet Square within which stood the Man who threw the fatal switch. The chair the switchboard. Cetl Ujj Dutott looks Larm clock fastened on the end of a Broom tic la is the Volt metre which measures Force of Tho electric current. In the upper left hand Corner is seen an electric push but ton which communicates with a Bell in the Dynamo room at the North end of the prison Yard and will be used to Convoy orders to Thi convicts or others who operate the Yuam there. Adjoining this push Button is Thi signal code five ready. One on current. Two current. Three current. One Oil Curre it. Six through. Above the switchboard will be Twenty Little circles in to picture. They re present so Many electric lights each which stands for 100 volts. The current Ca of turned into these by a switch and the will also act As a of the Power of the Durrent. The other things seen on the boar Are switches by which the current can b turned into any of vines at will. After the Tho measuring scientific do me read this it is of interest to you 250. Offe very Dollar s Worth of goods in the House at Preston Morris or the next 10 Days we will give the above discount on All goods in the House. Of goods in every department. Dress goods Staples. Our Stock contains a Choice selection in dress goods and Silks we can give you new stylish and fashionable materials. The bal Ance of our dress goods at half Price. Our Staple department everything you need in Cottons linens Gingham Etc., Etc. Fancy goods millinery. In fancy goods and Small wares it is impossible to go into de tails but everything you need in this department is subject to the same discount. Parasols at actual Cost. Millinery. All Straw hats half Price. Mantle department. Mantle have still a Good Choice in lace and brocade silk Dolman travel Ling wraps Ulster Etc., Etc. Blouses at actual Cost. Gents furnishings rugs. All gents furnishings 25 per cent discount. Ladies if you wish to secure one of those Beautiful floor bugs it jul Only Cost you during the Sale. Remember you get Worth of goods for Worth for Worth for Worth for 75c. We do not offer you one or two lines of a reduction and charge full prices for everything else you buy. We desire to reduce our Stock As much As possible to make room for our fall importations. We invite you All to come and be satisfied before purchasing. Remember the place in Irie s t o itt 452 main Street death chamber -.0 connect eject Rode. Both wires however. 1 i this closet. This break is the Chino Point of the Juire apparatus. It occurs on Tho of the at about the height of a Nan s . Here the Gap is bring a and the Bridge is the death switch. To this closet stands the executioner. The Dynamo used Iti Tho executions is of test Lemhouse one of Tho three Khich Haraip drown when tie state employed him to provide apparatus for Thaxie ution rooms bought on the sly. From the experience gained on the 7ta july it is that the apparatus at sing sing is capable of killing Twenty five Menan hour if worked to Tho Best possible Idva Tage. The Cit Ait in front of the Box. Is sir Nibur f. In t at Auburn in Tho exec Bionoi i i Oak. And has Bucad ask .1 of a hol Low . With a. Into this rubber the Bond sinks and is bound Fust by a catches the face securely about Tho Chin and above the fore Lead shading Tho eyes from observation. He accompanying picture accurately describes Tho chair. Tho figure four above head rest is intended to hold thu cup and Pongo which still be the positive electrode the wire connecting this electrode with too Dynamo will drop from a bracket above and pass through a stole in the figure four to the Inetal cup. There Are traps provided to bind each Arm and fore inn to the chair. There is also a strap just below the Waist at the Bend of Tho legs to lol the body of the victim tightly Back against the negative electrode which will be another cup and sponge applied to the Bara if in at the Tase of the spinal Cord. Arg Jgr Erial baking by Wolfi i h 1mb purest strongest Best contains no Alum ammonia Lime phosphates or any e. W. Billett. Toronto. Ont. A Vroni harsh purgative if troubled with Conatta Tion choose rather the mild natural action Burdock blood bitters which regulates the live and Bowles a prompt to season up. I am receiving fresh consignments every Day from at Portage and i no nov in position Toeup ply any Quantity either wholesale or retail. I buy direct of the pickers and can sell As cheap if not cheaper Ion anybody in the business. Parties outside the City can have them shipped direct by writing t. A. Gibson second St., rat Portage or St., Winnipeg. I , Conn. Established. 1854. 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