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In the center of this other room is a stationary table , upon which the autopsy is performed . `` All of the machinery has been thoroughly tested , and found to be in good running order , and neither the State 's Electrician nor the Warden expect the slightest hitch in connection with today 's proceedings . The twelve witnesses invited by the Warden , and made necessary by law , together with the brain experts , have arrived upon the scene , and everything is in complete readiness for the electrocution of John Convert . '' FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY -LRB- Special Despatch :-RRB- `` SING SING , N. Y. , 1:15 P. M.-One of the strangest and most pathetic tragedies that has ever happened in the State of New York has just taken place within the house of electrocution here , the result of which must cause the whole civilized world to pause and shudder . Your correspondent earnestly prays that he may never again be called upon to witness another such horror , the effects of which have completely unnerved him and beggars even a faint description . `` At precisely twelve o'clock today , with the State Electrician , medical experts , and witnesses , mutely stationed in their places , the great iron door leading from the Death Chamber was suddenly swung open , and between two guards the gigantic form of John Convert walked over to the electric chair , with a firm and unfaltering step . Immediately , all eyes were turned upon him , and at the same instant there was a subdued murmur of surprise by many of those present at the magnificent appearance of the man .