Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1927 — Page 7

MARCH 25,1927

DECLARES DEAID IN ELECTRIC CHAIR CDMESJSTANTLY Ohio Prison Physician Explains Why Heart Beats After Life Is Extinct. Bu United, Press COLUMBUS. Ohio, March 25. Death in the electric chair is instantaneous, according to Dr. Willis B. ’Merrill, Ohio Penitentiary physician. “A man electrocuted in the electric chair is dead the instant the first : shock hits him, although his heart may" beat for two minutes after death,” Merrill said in answer to the question recently reopened at Sing Sing prison, Ossining, N. Y., whether a man once electroquted might be brought back to life. ‘‘lt would be impossible to resuscitate a man once pronounced dead _at Ohio penitentiary," he said. “The first shock completely destroys the 1 central nervous system and the man .dies.” Dr. Merrill explained the phenomenon of a dead man’s heart beating by pointing out that the heart muscle is the last to be affected by electric shock. • Independent Muscle The muscle, he declared, is the most Independent muscle in the human body and the most isolated from the nervous system. Consequently it will continue to contract and expend, apparently beating at a faster rate of speed, but otherwise normally, until it receives no more nourishment. This beading, Merrill said, may continue for one minute and often two minutes. • The heart of any animal tyill beat c fter death, he went on, because of its independence from the rest of the nervous system. A turtle’s heart, he gave as an example. It can be removed from the animal, placed in . a salt solution, and will continue to beat for 24 hours, Merrill said. Dr. Merrill .said he noticed the phenomenon soon after taking up his duties as prison physician, when he tested the heart of an electrocuted man for the first time. New to his job, he ordered another charge of electricity sent through the body,

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but said the same result was obtained. Since his study of the subject, he said one charge is all that he finds necessary to cause instantaneous death. Given 2,100 Volts, Condemned men receive a maximum of 2,100 volts at Ohio penlteni tiary. At Sing Sing, where the question j has been raised, authorities have I contemplated a study of the heart I action of a man during electrocu- ; tion, while scientists of the Rockefeller Institute have also planned tests. Dr. Merrill scouted the theory of Dr. George Shrady, former coroner of New York county, that resuscitation after electrocution could bo effected. Shrady offered for several years to revive any man electrocuted at Sing Sing, but the experiment was never permitted. HEDGE-BURNING MANIAC Melbourne. Australia, Claims World’s Maddest Madman. Bu NEA Service SYDNEY, March 25.—The world’s maddest madman is claimed by Melbourne, capital city of Victoria. His particular weakness is the burnihg of the immaculately-trimmed hedges of suburban householders and in less than three months he has destroyed over fifty hedges without being apprehended. Newspapers have dubbed the unknown lunatic "The Hedge Hog.”

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24 PUT TD DEATH BYTANATIC WHEN CZAR TOOK COUNT Wholesale Murderer in Repentance Aided Soviet in Taking of Census. Bu United Press UZEKISTAN, Russia, March 25. A religious fanatic; who buried twenty-four people alive at own request when Czar Nicholas .1 conducted the last national census in 1887 worked energetically with the Soviet authorities in the census just completed to prevent a repetition of his horrible act of forty years ago. The fanatic was one of a religious colony located here, called the Starobriadze. There were twentyfive members of the sect when the czar’s censustakers came. The Starobriadze, in a panic, thought the officials were the heralds of the antiChrist and elected to die rather than submit to the census. According to their wild creed, they chose to be buried alive. But they found that they could not bury themselves. They drew lots to determine which of them should bury the rest and himself remain alive to risk the anti-

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