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"You're all wrong," he told Joe when he left, "and some day possibly we'll hang you or electrocute you; but it's refreshing to rub one's mind against a going dynamo. I'm coming again. And don't forget that your mother is the First Lady of the Island! Good-by!" Then there was, one important day, the great ex-trust man, whose name is inscribed on granite buildings over half the earth.
"I thought you were down in the village, under the care of the doctors." "I was," she managed to falter. "How did you get here run away?" "Yes." "Why?" "I I do not know. I they have found me out! They are going to hang me, or electrocute me! I I couldn't stand it!" "How do you know that?" "Oh, I know only too well." "So you ran away, did you? 'Twas a bloody cute thing to do, Margaret.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate.
"The Earl of Valletort is here, and wishes to have a word with you, Mr. Steingall," he said. The detective's present grim conceit ran somewhat to the effect that if he remained long enough in the Central Hotel he would accumulate sufficient evidence to electrocute three criminals, at least, and send others to the penitentiary, but he merely nodded and said: "Show his lordship right in."
"And if it has their power to electrocute, it's surely the most dreadful animal ever conceived by our Creator. That's why I'll keep on my guard, sir." The whole crew stayed on their feet all night long. No one even thought of sleeping. Unable to compete with the monster's speed, the Abraham Lincoln slowed down and stayed at half steam.
We electrocute the Italian and print pictures of the wheat speculator in our magazines as an example of Success. "In other words, the theft of five thousand dollars is grand larceny. The theft of five millions, stained with human blood, is a triumph of business genius. "But one answer is heard, 'am I my brother's keeper?
"Rob's storage batteries are not powerful enough to electrocute one or set the house on fire. Do give the boy a chance, Belinda." "And the pranks are so humiliating," continued the lady.
Most of the crowd was pie-eyed by this time, anyhow, and would fight at the drop of a hat. After tying him securely, Ruggam caught up a billet of wood and and killed him with that." "Why didn't they electrocute him?" demanded young Higgins. "Well, the murder wasn't exactly premeditated.
And in order that this lesson in discipline and obedience might be visible to every one, it was determined not to electrocute or drown but hang the offender. Accordingly the air-fleet came clustering round the flagship like carp in a pond at feeding time. The Adler hung at the zenith immediately alongside the flagship.
"Aunt Betty says that any taking of the Lord's name in vain is swearing and " Foreseeing a childish squabble, due to over-excitement and fatigue, Helena gently interposed: "That's enough. Neither of you knows what she is talking about. They don't hang people nowadays, they electrocute them, and Wun Sing wasn't hurt.