Chapter 9 the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel

In the other room Walter and his fiancée sat down at a table.

Then the 1st of the assistants of the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel walked into the room and sat down and to go into more detail he is a young man who has black hair and is wearing a long white lab coat.

Then Walter looked at the person and started talking to him.

We will now begin.

Okay by the way hello miss disease.

Hello deputy sheriff Hover.

Please call me Dow.

Okay Dow this is the reporter who is here to interview you to do with executed the serial killer Dr H.p kill.

Okay.

When do you want the interview to take place said Walter.

Right now is fine but I cannot do it for long because I am only here for the day and then I must go back to my other job.

Okay then these are the questions what is your name?

My name is Dow Hover.

When was you born?

I was born somewhere before 1901 in New York City.

What is your job?

My job is I am a deputy sheriff for Columbia County but occasionally I work here as an assistant to Joseph Francel.

How long has that been going on for?

I have been a native and lifelong resident of Germantown which led to me worked as a deputy sheriff for Columbia County but I don't remember when because it was so long ago and I have only been working here for a short time and don't really have anything to say for the interview.

A few minutes later the 2nd of the assistants of the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel walked into the room and sat down and to go into more detail he looks like he is middle age who has black hair and is wearing a long white lab coat.

Then Walter looked at the person and started talking to him.

We will now begin these are the questions what is your name?

My name is Edward box.

When was you born?

I was born on the 3rd of January 1870 in Brooklyn New York which was on the same day at the same time as the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge started.

What is your job?

My job is I work here as an assistant to the executioner who at the moment is Joseph Francel.

When did you start your job?

I started my job when the 1st state electrician for the State of New York Edwin Davis killed his 1st prisoner William Kemmler in 1890.

Do you remember that particular execution?

Yes I do.

In a flashback it is the 6th of August 1890 in a completely white and completely empty corridor in Auburn Prison in Auburn in New York the executioner Edwin Davis and Edward box are standing against a wall smoking cigarettes and to go into more detail the executioner Edwin Davis is fat and old and is wearing a black suit and at the moment he is talking to Edward box.

Out of interest young man today I am going to pull the switch on a new invention.

What is it?

It is a new way to kill people.

I don't understand what do you mean a new way to kill people?

Let me explain it slowly as you know in 1860 the New York Legislature passed a bill which abolished capital punishment in the state by repealing hanging as a method of execution without prescribing an alternative method.

That is right that worked.

Yes it did and the bill was signed by Governor Edwin D. Morgan in April 1860 and the New York Court of Appeals ruled the statute unconstitutional and Governor Morgan signed legislation to restore the death penalty in 1861 and again in 1862 to fully repeal the earlier statute.

Yes I know all of that and I asked about the new invention.

I am getting to that.

When are you getting to that?

Right now and you was out of the country at the time in the late 1880s.

Yes I was fighting in a war and to go into more detail I was in the Mahdist War from the 12th of August 1881 when I was 11-years-old and that was to do with the Battle of Aba to when I was injured in the Battle of Gallabat on the 10th of March last year when I was 19-years-old.

There you would not know about the matter that in 1887 New York State established a committee to determine a new more humane system of execution to replace hanging and because of that a man called Alfred P. Southwick who is a member of the committee who out of interest is coming to today's execution developed the idea of putting electric current through a device such as a chair after hearing about how hitting someone with electricity will lead to instant death because apparently he heard about a drunken man died because the drunk man touching exposed power lines and another reason why Alfred P. Southwick crated the machine is because Alfred P. Southwick is a dentist and because he uses a chair which should have electric current to operate it because chairs at the dentists are used without electricity because they are just normal chairs and because of that Alfred P. Southwick got the idea to put the electricity through the chair to execute people and that is what he eventually is an electric chair which executes people and everything I am saying is the idea of the invention I am using today.

But will it work?

It probably will.

But is it as humane as everybody says it is?

Probably not.

Why do you think that is?

Well when the person was sentenced to death by hanging they died instantly to do with the matter that they fell down with a rope around their neck which led to those people dying instantly most of the time but with this new invention they probably will suffer for minutes while being electrocuted for a long time because of that I say no to the question about this new invention being humane or not but I cannot say my opinion out loud because everybody believe that the new invention is humane and if I say my opinion out loud I will be fired from my new job of being the state electrician for the State of New York a concept I really love because I love the concept of being an executioner and killing people who deserve to die and hopefully I have a long history when it comes to executing people who deserve to die.

Later in the day it is time for the execution which is in a big room with a load of people watching including the inventor Alfred P. Southwick who is there to make sure that his new invention actually works and to go into more detail the inventor Alfred P. Southwick is a little old man wearing a very expensive suit and he has short white hair and a long white beard.

Then the inventor Alfred P. Southwick stood up from his chair and walked into the middle of the room and started talking to the audience.

Ladies and gentlemen you have the rare opportunity to witness a great invention because this new invention will kill prisoners who are criminals and deserved to die which includes today's person who is a very terrible criminal who deserves to die for his many terrible thing such as murder and I believe that everybody in this room would like to see a murder die in this chair.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

Okay people the criminal's name is William Kemmler and today he will die.

Then William Kemmler was taken into the room and put into the chair and to go into more detail William Kemmler is about 6 feet tall and has long black hair and a long black beard and he is wearing a prison uniform.

Then Edwin Davis stood up from his chair and attacked William Kemmler to the electric chair.

Then Edwin Davis sat back down.

Then in the chair William Kemmler was looking around the room.

Then the inventor Alfred P. Southwick sat back down in his chair.

Then Edwin Davis stood up from his chair and walked into the middle of the room and started talking to the audience.

Okay people I am the person who is going to turn on this invention which will kill the criminal.

Then Edwin Davis looked at William Kemmler and started talking to him.

Okay do you have any last words?

Then William Kemmler then started talking to the audience.

Yes I do have some last words to say and my last words are Gentlemen I wish you all good luck I believe I am going to a good place and I am ready to go.

Then Edwin Davis looked at the audience and started talking again.

Let me go into more detail about this criminal if you people wish to hear about a criminal's life before he died.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

Okay then I will say the information about the criminal who is about to die like it has been already established and like it has already been established the criminal's name is William Kemmler and he is getting executed for murder and to go into more detail the criminal is getting executed for the murder of his common-law wife with a hatchet on the 29th of March 1889 and because he did that he was sentenced to death by electrocution at New York's Auburn Prison and that is why he is right here right now getting executed for murder because only criminals die in the electric chair because people who are not criminals do not die in the electric chair.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

And because of that I see that you all agree with me and that is why I will now hurry up and pull the switch and make this man die and send him straight to hell where he belongs because if you murder someone you go straight to hell and this criminal murdered someone so because so that he is going straight to hell.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

I am so glad that all of you agree with me and that is why the execution was start right this second.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

Then Edwin Davis walked to the switch on the wall.

Then Edwin Davis pulled the switch on the wall which caused the invention to turn on.

And because the invention was turned on current was passed through William Kemmler's body for 17 seconds and then the power was turned off.

Then Edwin Davis stood up from his chair and walked into the middle of the room and started talking to the audience again.

Okay people this medical man will make sure that the criminal is dead.

Then a man called Dr. Edward Charles who is about average height and very average looking walked up to the electric chair and starting checking if William Kemmler was dead.

A few minutes later the medical man Dr. Edward Charles walked up to Edwin Davis and whispered into his ear.

Then Edwin Davis started talking to the audience again.

Okay people the medical man has just said that the murderer William Kemmler is now dead.

Then somebody in the audience stood up and shouted out he is still because I can still see him briefing.

Then Dr. Edward Charles walked up to the electric chair and starting checking if William Kemmler was dead again.

A few minutes later the medical man Dr. Edward Charles walked up to Edwin Davis and whispered into his ear.

Then Edwin Davis started talking to the audience again.

Okay people the medical man has just said that the murderer William Kemmler is still alive and that is why I will electrocute him again but this time I will turn up the volume on the electric chair.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

Then Edwin Davis walked up to a device on the electric chair of which made the power go up and he turned it to 2,000 volts.

Then Edwin Davis walked to the switch on the wall.

Then Edwin Davis pulled the switch on the wall which caused the invention turn on again.

And because the invention was turned on current was passed through William Kemmler's body which made blood pour out of his head because all of the blood vessels in his head was bursting underneath the 2,000 volts and a bunch of veins on his face started to burst and blood was pouring down his face and his prison uniform set on fire and then his body was on fire as well and the flash on his body started to cook under the fire and then smoke come out of his body as the flesh on his body was cooking underneath the fire.

After a few minutes William Kemmler was actually dead to do with the matter that his body was completely burnt because his body was completely covered in fire which made him die even faster than the electric.

Then Edwin Davis stood up from his chair and walked into the middle of the room and started talking to the audience again.

Okay people the medical man does not have to checking if William Kemmler is dead because obviously he is dead which is good riddance to bad rubbish because he deserved to die and everybody in this audience agrees with that don't you?

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

I see you all love the execution and I really love the execution because the criminal is dead which makes this the most greatest job in the world because I get to kill people like William Kemmler because they deserve to die.

Then everybody in the audience started clapping.

Back in 1940 and out of interest the New York Times reported instead that an Bad smell came out of the dead body which was to do with the matter that his flesh was cooking underneath the fire and everybody in the audience said that they love the day that they all saw the very 1st time someone was executed with the electric chair which by the way was a very good thing to see because an evil man like William Kemmler deserve to die and that is completely what happened and because of that everybody had a good day especially me because I got to work with the great man Edwin Davis when he was using the electric chair for the first 1st in 1890 and out of interest people cannot work with Edwin Davis anymore because he died on the 26th of May 1923.

It did sound like a great day because the electric chair was invented which killed people who deserve to die which includes the serial killer dying today especially because I help the police to find him.

Everything you are saying is completely correct and now I must go because of my job to do with the executions today.

A few minutes later the 3rd of the assistants of the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel walked into the room and sat down and to go into more detail he looks like he is in his 40s and has brown hair and is wearing a long white lab coat. Then Walter looked at the person and started talking to him.

We will now begin these are the questions what is your name?

My name is Ronnie s cold.

When was you born?

I was born on the 17th of January 1770 in Great Britain which was on the same day at the same time as British troops clash with American colonists at the Battle of Golden Hill to do with the American Revolutionary War.

What is your job?

My job is that I have been working here since when the prison was 1st opened in 1826 so since then I have had hundreds of jobs but at the moment I am 1 of the assistants to the executioner.

When did you start your job?

I started the assistant job to the executioner Joseph Francel since earlier this year.

You have been working here since the prison opened in 1826.

Yes and the other 2 what was built by New York State before Sing Sing prison was built in 1826.

Do you mind explaining that?

Okay I will Sing Sing prison was the 3rd prison built by New York State.

Was it really the 3rd prison built by New York State?

Yes the 1st prison Newgate Prison was built in 1797 in Greenwich Village and is no longer around because it was destroyed in the 1820s and a 2nd 1 was built in 1816 and was called Auburn State Prison and it is still around and I work at both of them when they 1st opened.

You was there when Sing Sing prison 1st opened in 1826.

Yes I was and me and the warden of Auburn Prison and former Army captain Elam Lynds was both told about when the prison was 1st thought about being built in 1824.

In a flashback it is 1824 in the early hours of the morning in a completely dark corridor in Auburn Prison Ronnie s cold and Elam Lynds who is middle age and quite short are having a conversation.

Apparently in New York State they are built a new prison.

Really another 1?

Yes and they want me to be the warden of the new prison.

Yes but you are already the warden of Auburn Prison.

Yes but I what to be the warden of the new prison and I want you to be my co-warden of the new prison.

Back in 1940 and out of interest I was his co-warden during the years he was warden for.

So the prison was an idea in 1824.

Yes the prison was an idea in 1824 and it was opened in 1826 and it was completed in 1828 and like I just said I was the co-warden of the prison during the years that Elam Lynds was the warden of the prison which was from 1825 to 1830 and I was also the co-warden for a number of other wardens.

How long did that last for?

I was the co-warden of this prison from 1824 to when I retired in 1920 and again from 1925 to when I retired again in 1930 and since 1930 and 1 of the wardens that I was co-to and 1 of my friends was Lewis E. Lawes.

The warden of sing sing prison at the moment.

Yes like he properly told you when you interviewed him he has been the warden of the prison from 1920 to present so that means when I was a co-warden from 1825 to 1930 to my friends Lewis E. Lawes as well.

Makes sense.

So like I was just about to say earlier from 1930 to the beginning of this year my friends Lewis E. Lawes keeps trying to talk me into making me the co-warden of sing sing prison again but I turned him down every time that he brings it up to me.

Yes but you are 1 of the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel.

Yes that is because I turned down the job of the co-warden of sing sing prison for 10 years and Warden Lawes finally got the idea that I didn't want the job so he offered me this job I am doing at the moment and I accepted it.

In a flashback it is early 1940 at the home of Ronnie s cold and to go into more detail about the home of Ronnie s cold it is very big and has existed since the early 1790s when it was built by Ronnie s cold personally and at the moment Ronnie s cold is sitting in his favourite chair that has existed since the early 1790s in his front room and to go into more detail about the front room of Ronnie s cold it is very big and it 100% looks like what it did in the early 1790s and that is because of a unknown reason and at the moment Ronnie s cold is talking to Lewis E. Lawes.

I have told you before that I do not want the job as the co-warden of sing sing prison anymore.

And I have somehow established that and out of interest this is a new job that I am offering you.

What is the new job?

The new job is that you will be 1 of the assistants to the executioner Joseph Francel.

Okay but 1st I must think it over before I decide to do anything.

Take as long as you want but the new job is better than your last job because this job you will be helping the executioner Joseph Francel kills someone who deserves to die.

That is a very good reason why I will do the job and I will probably do the job.

Yes you will because it is a good job and you would be very good at the job because the job needs a very good person to do the job and you are the very good person for the job.

Okay you talk me into it I will do the job.

Good you can start the job soon because I need you straight away because you are a good friend of mine and I do not want you just hanging around the house doing nothing.

That is a very good point and that is why I will do the job.

Back to normal.

And that was when my friend Lewis E. Lawes 1st offered me the job as 1 of the assistants to the executioner Joseph Francel which is a job which I really love because it is a very good job and I sometimes think it is better than my old job as the co-warden of sing sing prison from 1825 to 1930 and now I am now finished talking.

A few minutes later the 4th of the assistants of the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel walked into the room and sat down and to go into more detail he is wearing a military uniform from the war in Germany in the 1910s and he has white hair.

Then the person looked at the fiancée and started talking to her.

Hello honey.

Hello dad.

You are here Dr Disease.

Yes me and Dr H.p kill was friends and I thought he was a good doctor but I was wrong so because of that I will be glad to help with the execution.

You and Dr H.p kill was friends.

Yes we was in the army in 1913 and we fought in the war in Germany in the 1910s together and we was at medical school together and we both own part of a hospital together.

How does all of that work?

Well I was born on the 1st of January 1900 in London in England and he was born on the 1st of January 1899 in London in England.

So he was a year older.

Yes he was and out of interest I was 13 and he was 14 in 1913 when we 1st met when me and him join the army and later we went to fight in the war in Germany which was from 1914 to 1918 and we was there from when the war started in 1914 to when the war ended in 1918 and then we went to medical school together in London from 1918 to 1924 and we both own part of a hospital from 1924 to last year when I went over to Germany to talk to some of the troops because it was a programme to help some English soldiers by establishing how the soldiers in the war in Germany in the 1910s did it so the soldiers in the new war in Germany will know how to do it which was very successful for them so they might win the war in Germany at the moment.

Will you enjoy the execution?

Probably to put scum like him to death and it is a good thing and the matter that he used to be my friend means nothing to me and out of interest will you and my daughter go and witness the execution?

Yes we properly will witness the execution tonight.

That is good my boy you and my daughter will enjoy the execution.

Yes we probably will.

That is good.

A few minutes later the 5th of the assistants of the 5 assistants to Joseph Francel walked into the room and sat down and to go into more detail he appears to be a little old man with white hair and a long white lab coat.

Then Walter looked at the person and started talking to him.

We will now begin.

Okay by the way hello miss disease.

Hello Dr Killing.

Please called me James.

Okay James this is the reporter who is here to interview you to do with executed the serial killer Dr H.p kill.

Okay.

When do you want the interview to take place said Walter.

Right now is fine but I cannot do it for long to do with the execution that is later today.

We will now begin with the questions what is your name?

My name is Dr James Killing.

When were you born?

I was born on the 1st of January 1900.

What is your job?

My job is I work here as an assistant to the executioner and I am a doctor/surgeon at a local hospital.

When did you start your job?

It started in 1938 and before that I was a doctor in Germany from 1934 to 1938 and before that I worked in another hospital from 1930 to 1934 and before then I worked in a different hospital from 1925 to 1930 and before that I was at medical school in London from 1918 to 1924.

That is weird because my fiancée's father went to medical school in London and you probably knew him.

Yes I did young man because that is where I met your fiancée's father and Dr H.p kill and another friend of mine Dr Kills who was also there but your father and Dr H.p kill never met him and before that me and Dr kills was in the army in Germany in the war in Germany from 1914 to 1918 but we was in a different part to the part that your fiancée's father and Dr H.p kill was in.

Are you said that Dr H.p kill is not a killer?

Not really the man is a killer and deserves to die that is why I was brought on the case because in Germany I am a great surgeon and a great Doctor and that is why I am the best man for the job no offence to your yet to become father-in-law and no offence to my boss Joseph Francel and no offence to any of the other assistants to my boss Joseph Francel.

There is no insult said Dr Disease who walked into the room.

Hello Dr Disease.

Are you talking about when me and Dr H.p kill and you and your friend who me and Dr H.p kill never met during the years you and him worked it the hospital me and Dr H.p kill owned part of and when you and him was at medical school with me and Dr H.p kill?

Yes I am talking about old times.

Good we will talk about old times in my laboratory.

I don't understand the 3 said at the same time.

You 3 are coming back to my house/my laboratory to talk about old times and other stuff and after that I will take you 3 back here with the execution is happening and I will not take no for an answer.

My new recruit to the newspaper is in the car said Walter.

Take him along.

Okay I will take him along.

Then all 4 of them walked out of the room.

Outside of the room all 4 of them walked down the corridor.

Then Walter looked at Dr Disease and started talking to him.

Do you mind if I invite another guest?

Okay young man.

Then Walter stopped in the corridor and walked up to his friend Jimmy and started talking to him.

Hello Jimmy me and my fiancé and my fiancé's father and an assistant to the executioner and my new recruit are going back to my fiancé's father's place and do you want to come?

Yes I do.

That is very good to hear.

Then all of them walked down the corridor and out of the front door.

All 5 of them are outside.

Excuse me for a minute said Walter.

Then 4 of them got into the horse and carriage belonging to Dr Disease and Walter walked over to his car where the new recruit to the newspaper is asleep.

In a dream sequence it is somewhere over 20 years in the future so in other words in the 1960s in the newspaper place the future version of the new recruit to the newspaper who at the moment is a professional reporter is sitting at his desk writing down information about himself.

Out of interest I have been a newspaper reporter since the early 1940s and since the 1940s I have reported on many things that have happened in that time such as the end of the war in Germany which Germany lost and the death of Adolf Hitler and the death of Nazism in Nazi Germany which is now just called Germany and out of interest I am happy I am not a soldier like my deceased father who has been dead since the middle of the 1940s and my deceased great-grandfather who died in the American Civil War in the 1860s and his deceased brother who died in the American Civil War in the 1860s and out of interest as a reporter I can investigate a number of serial killer cases just like my old friend and partner Walter who died in the early 1940s as well and I can investigate a number of famous unsolved mysteries such as the identity of the English serial killer Jack the Ripper who murdered his victims mostly in 1888 and a particular unsolved murder that happened in 1947 to do with a man called John P. St. John and some murders to do with a man called detective Simon killing and some murders to do with a man called Douglas kill-not and a number of crimes that happened on the English island S C Island in the many years it has existed especially when it comes to a number of people like a man called Douglas cookie and a vampire called Bill and a number of serial killers who murdered people for fun and a concept of criminals been above the law and an unsolved murder from Greenfield in Bedfordshire from 1939 and the victim's name was George Stapleton and an unsolved murder from Brighton in England from 1934 and that murder is known as the Brighton Trunk Crime no. 1 and an unsolved murder from Aldershot in Hampshire from 1931 and the victim's name was Hubert Chevis and an unsolved murder from Liverpool in England from 1931 that is called the Wallace Case and a number of disappearances such as the 1856 mysterious disappearance of a man called Matias Perez and the 1872 mysterious disappearance of the crew of the British merchant brigantine Mary Celeste and the 1890 mysterious disappearance of the movie director Louis Le Prince and the 1913 mysterious disappearance of the writer Ambrose Bierce.

Then the new recruit woke up from Walter saying to him wake up you lazy bum.

Then the new recruit looked at Walter and started talking to him.

Hello boss.

2 things and

Number 1 I am not your boss I am your partner and

Number 2 get up we are all going to my fiancée's father's house.

Okay let's go and he got out of the car and Walter locked the car and both of them walked over to the horse and carriage belonging to Dr Disease and got in to it.

End of chapter 9