...ed up under his chin, leaving the windpipe partly free. The result was that muscular contraction did not cease for ten minutes, though it was at no time violent.--The body hung for 30 minutes, when Dr. W. T. Black , surgeon of Gen. Shepley's staff, who, with Dr. Geo. A. Blake, of the United States Sanitary Commission, was in attendance on the execution, ascended a ladder and ascertained that the heart ceased to...