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Source: Boston Post
Source type: newspaper Document type: illustration Document title: “Plan of the Execution Room in Auburn Prison” Image size (in source, approx. h x w): unknown Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Boston, Massachusetts Date of publication: 29 October 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: none Pagination: 10 |
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| “Plan of the Execution Room in Auburn Prison.” Boston Post 29 Oct. 1901: p. 10. |
| Transcription |
| full image of illustration |
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| Auburn State Prison (execution chamber: illustrations). |
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Descriptive text accompanying the caption reads as follows: “The death
chair is so connected with the dynamos in the basement of the prison that
the simple turning of a switch sends the electric current flashing along
the wires, carrying death to the occupant of the chair.”
Title herein taken from caption.
Image courtesy of Newspapers.com. |
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