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THh MAN WHO ELECTROCUTES. Silent Executioner Who Regards His Cal ing in Purely Business Way-Holds Patents on Apparatus. New York Sun. When ihe killed the Van Worm boys in the State prison at Dann( inora last week State 1.lectricia lEdward E. Davis finished his 74t execution by electricity. Of theF 71 occurred in this State, -two i Massachusetts and one in Ohio. This nian who inventecI the ele( tric chair, owns the patents on and is the only man , ho can abst lutely be depended upon to condu< an execution without a hitch, is r< markable in other respects. Tho wherever he goes he flocks by hin self. He rarely speaks to anybod unless he is spoken to first, an then he is found to be a most af ble person, mtore than anxious t talk about himself and his work. He will cheerfully answer an question put to him, no matter ho' personal it may be. About hi work he is absoltely cold blooded He looks upon an execution as matter of business, nothing elsE In this lie reminds one very nic of little Joe Atkinson, the cAd Tomb hangman, who was as cheerful a executioner as one would care t meet. ''My dear sir, I do not kill thes men,'' said Mr. Davis just after th Van Wormer execution to an in quirer. "The people of the Stat of New York, acting through judge and jury, kill them. "I am simply the instrument o the law. I work the machinery b: which the State of New York take the lives of iiurdelers.'' Davis is a little gray haired nina of 6o. Ask a New York politiciai who is the hardest ian to find i1 th,! city and lie will tell you Tin Sullivan. Ask a State official a Albany, especially Supeiintenden of Prisons Collins, who is the hard est ian in the State to find and i will tell you it is Davi.i. Davis is a living mystery. H slips from place to place, neve maintaining residence in a givei locality for any length of time an< rarely letting any one know wher lie is. Every once in a while he appear; suddenly in Albany, maps out hi! work tor the next lew inontlis, an< then goes away again, whither no body knows. He can be absol tell depended upon01, however, to p)ut ii an appearance at a State prisol whlere there is to be an executioi several (lays before it is to tak' p)lace. I Ie goes right to the dheath chama ber and gets everything in readi ness, and after the execntion h, goes away as silently and as miys teriously as lhe came. 'Thie State pays' D)avis $150 fo each man lie kills. It has tried re peatedly to buy his patients, but hi will not sell. If lie should dhi there are p)rob)ably p)lenty of min who wvould be able to work his a~ paratus, but it would be more o less of an experiment, even if a: electrician willing to do the wvorl could he found, D)avis' mysterious movements ar attributed by soime to a fear of as sassination. D)avis was asked abou this recently and laughled heartil3 lie receives mnaniy threatening let ters, lie said; but pays no attentioi to them. The niighit before an executioi Davis goes to bed very early ani leaves wvord that every precautioi is to be taken not to have any nois, around his room. He sleeps like: top) and wakes up bright and( early' His work in the death chamber outside of preparing the apparatus is very slight. HIe looks on whili the keepers strap) thme man in, thi puts his hand on the switch and a a signial turns on the current. H<I never 'eaves the switch after th first shock until the man in the chair is officially declared dead. Very naturally, some people have an aversion to Davis because he is the State executioner. Far from being annoyed by this. Davis is r rather amused. At a receut execution Davis took n dinner at a hotel near the prison. h Several regular boarders at the e hotel refused to.sit at the table with n him, preferring to wait until he was through. Davis clamly ate his dinner, read it ing his paper tho while, and then smoked two cigars while the hun gry boarders waited for him to get away. Davis has no assistant. He does his work alone, and, unpleasant as y the work may seem, he certainly d does it well. 0 Rheumatism Secondhand. "Well," exclaimed Mr. Queer Y case, "you can talk as you like s about physical affliction, but the largest that ever struck me was when I had the rheuinatism in my brother." L"Rheumatism in your brbther!" exclaimed his auditors in concert. s "What are you telling us?" "I'm just giving yon a case of 'stalwart affliction that ought to bring your sympathy out by the roots," was the reply. "The kind of rheumatism that he had was the kind that hangs u over the edges and threads on the adjacent martyrs. Why, the way he'd yell and keep me awake at I night and have tie tying on hand ages and rubbing joints and smell ing all sorts of lotions, and the way lie would kick me out of bed wien his other leg hurt him too inuchi, was energizing. Primary rheuma ties is bad enough, but to have to t take it in a secondary form is petri ti Woman's Home Companion. The November Woman's Hiome Companion containssixty four pages r of seasonable matter. 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