Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1913 — CHINA WANTS DEATH CHAIR [ARTICLE]

CHINA WANTS DEATH CHAIR

Specifications of Machine for Killing i Criminals Bent to Canton by Constructor.

Trenton, N. J. —Information was sent across the sea from the newest to the oldest civilization of the world regarding the humane execution of criminals, when Carl F. Adams, constructor of electric death chairs, sent to China specifications for a modern electrocuting apparatus. Mr. Adams, of the Adams Electric company, received a letter from the Colonial store, 58 Sha Kee street. Canton. China, telling him that one of the highest officials in Canton wanted InformatiOn about electric chairs. The Colonial store 16 kept by J. B. Cheeny, and his letter, in back hand, is couched in excellent English. The letter was addressed to Montgomery, Ward ft Co., of Chicago, and by that house sent to Captain J. B. Wood, superintendent and warden of the Richmond, Va., penitentiary. As Mr. Adams Installed one of his chairs for the state of Virginia, Captain Wood forwarded the letter to the Trenton man. It was about six years ago when Mr. Adams designed and installed an electric chair in the state prison here. It has worked without a bitch for

more than seventy electrocutions. He has also installed a similar machine in the penitentiary of South Carolina.