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13. "Report of the Committee of the Medico-Legal Society on the Best Method of Execution of Criminals by Electricity," Medico-Legal Journal 6 (1888-89): 276-81; Clark Bell, "Electricity and the Death Penalty," Medico-Legal Journal 7 (1889-90): 201-19.
14. New York Daily Tribune, December 10,1888, as quoted in Brown, Comparative Danger, 27.
15. New York Evening Post, December 12,1888.
16. Ibid.
17. See W P. Hancock, "Report on Westinghouse Plant of Colorado Electric Company" (TAEM 122:996-1001); "Consolidation of Electric Light Companies," Electrical Engineer 8 (February 1889): 74-75; Passer, Electrical Manufacturers, 121,149.
18. Quotations from Harold Brown, "An Electrical Duel," New York Times, December 18, 1888. Also see Electrical World 12 (December 22, 1888), 323; Electrical World 13 (March 9,1889): 149.
19. Quotation from Harold Brown, circular, December 1888 (TAEM 122:193). Also see Frank Hastings to Edison, January 21, 1889 (TAEM 126:11); Alfred Tate to Hastings, January 24,1889 (TAEM 138:765); Harold Brown to Edison, February 14, March 17,1889 (TAEM 126:19, 39).
20. Quotation from Brown, Comparative Danger, iv. The third edition of this pamphlet was reprinted as Relator's Exhibit A in Kemmler Hearings.
21. For Rockwell's obituary, see Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 79 (1934): 120-22. On the arrangements for these experiments, see Charles K. Baker to Harold Brown, February 20, 1889; Frank Hastings to Arthur Kennelly, February 25, 1889; Kennelly to Hastings, February 25,1889; Brown to Kennelly, March 12,1889 (TAEM 126:32, 33, 35; 109:285).
22. Kennelly Notebook #1, pp. 90-91, March 12,1889 (TAEM 104:346); New York Times, March 9, 13, 1889; New York Star, March 18, 1889 (TAEM 146:431); New York Tribune, March 13,1889.
23. Scientific American 60 (March 23,1889): 181.
24. Carlos F. MacDonald to Harold Brown, March 19, 1889; Brown to Edison, March 27,1889 (both reprinted in New York Sun, August 25,1889. For a discussion of these letters, see chapter 15). For the terms of the contract, see New York Times, December 29,1889, and Kemmler Hearings, 10,1011-14.
25. Quotations from Brown, Comparative Danger, preface to the third edition; New York Evening Post, July 5,1889. Also see Brown, Electrical Distribution of Light, Heat, and Power, with a Partial List of Deaths from Electric Lighting Circuits (n. p., n. d.), 21.
26. Edison Electric circular, May 1889 (TAEM 147:237).
27. Quotation from New York Times, May 8, 1889. Also see Pittsburgh Post, May 23,1889 (TAEM 89:235); New York Star, May 9,1889; New York Tribune, May 23,1889.
28. Quotations from New York World, February 24,1889; Electrical World 14 (September 28,1889): 214.
29. American Notes and Queries 3 (June 8, July 13, 1889): 66,131.
30. Quotations from American Notes and Queries 3 (May 25, June 1,1889): 45, 37. For other coinages, see Electrician 23 (May 24,1889): 73; Electrical Review 14 (August 17,1889): 20; Medical Record 36 (August 24,1889): 223; Scientific American 63 (August 16,1890): 101.
31. Quotations from Alfred Tate to Sherburne Eaton, May 20, 1889 (TAEM 139:184); Eugene Lewis to Sherburne Eaton, June 1, 1889 (TAEM 126:46, emphasis in original); Sherburne Eaton to Alfred Tate, June 6,1889 (TAEM 126:49).
32. On June 10 the World used the word apologetically—"'Electrocution' Is Not Certain," a headline read—but two weeks later it dispensed with the quotation marks to note that Bourke Cockran's "argument against electrocution was able and telling." New York World, June 10, 26,1889.
33. Quotations from New York Times, July 11, 1889; Buffalo Courier, July 15,1889; Law Quarterly Review 7 (1891): in. Also see New York Tribune, July 11,1891; The American 20 (August 16, 1890): 357. Controversy over the word dissipated fairly quickly, and by the late 1890s even the newspapers that protested most strongly against it had succumbed to popular usage. The term soon came to refer to accidental