Word: kemmler
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Christopher Davis, always a painstaking craftsman (Ishmael, Lost Summer), reacts to the situation by underwriting to the point of blandness. His subject is William Kemmler, an ignorant laborer who back in 1889 took a hatchet to his common-law wife when she complained of his sexual inadequacies at the wrong moment...
Born. To James Blake Rogers, 23, and Marguerite Astrea Kemmler Rogers, 20: an 8-lb. son, first grandchild of the late Will Rogers; in Los Angeles. Name: James Kemmler Rogers...
...Rockwell, 92, pioneer electrotherapeutist, ardent opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn...
...hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought innocent men were ever executed, he said: "It is a good...