Just back of the chair is a large
closet, which conceals all of the electrical apparatus necessary to
throw on or off the current at the will of the Electrician, by whose
hand the condemned man is sent to eternity. Stationed within the closet,
the Electrocutioner can see what is going on outside, but cannot be seen
from without. Just back of the closet is a partition dividing the two
rooms, through which is a door leading into it. In the center of this
other room is a stationary table, upon which the autopsy is performed.
"All of the machinery has been thoroughly tested, and found to be in
good running order, and neither the State's Electrician nor the Warden
expect the slightest hitch in connection with today's proceedings. The
twelve witnesses invited by the Warden, and made necessary by law,
together with the brain experts, have arrived upon the scene, and
everything is in complete readiness for the electrocution of John
Convert."
FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY (Special Despatch:)
"SING SING, N. Y., 1:15 P. M.-One of the strangest and most pathetic
tragedies that has ever happened in the State of New York has just taken
place within the house of electrocution here, the result of which must
cause the whole civilized world to pause and shudder. Your correspondent
earnestly prays that he may never again be called upon to witness
another such horror, the effects of which have completely unnerved him
and beggars even a faint description.
"At precisely twelve o'clock today, with the State Electrician, medical
experts, and witnesses, mutely stationed in their places, the great iron
door leading from the Death Chamber was suddenly swung open, and between
two guards the gigantic form of John Convert walked over to the electric
chair, with a firm and unfaltering step.
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