Show LIBERTY OR THE ELECTRIC CHAIR I Albert lbert T Patrick Makes Sensa Sensational Sensational Sensational Plea in New NewYork NewYork York Court New York March larch 5 Albert T Pat Patrick Patrick Patrick rick who was convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice made malle a sensa sensational sensational appeal to the appellate division in Brooklyn today to free from imprisonment imprisonment for life or send him to the elec electric electric I chair He declared that imprisonment Imprison Imprisonment ment for life was a greater punishment than the death penalty Patrick declared that under the law lawhe lawhe lawhe he who uses the legal process to CO n mit a crime Is Js no less guilty of the crime rime and that accordingly all tho thos s state tate officers and the judge at his trial were guilty of murder in the first de degree deree degree gree ree reeThe The mere failure to commit the c rime on me makes this attempted mur murder murder murder der said Patrick He said that he disliked to come Into court as a matter of personal pride knowing the bitter revengeful and contemptible con contemptible contemptible hatred that most persons feet feel for the tile man convicted of crime He dv da d dared that his conviction was a coios cobs al conspiracy on the part of the tho th ing judge at his trial and state author authorities lUes who prosecuted him that District Attorney Jerome and his assistants I Gamin GarvIn and Osborne In connivance with Recorder Golf C had railroaded him hint to prison Imprisonment for life he said was a greater and more horrible punishment in this state than the death penalty p nalty ana ano he asked the court to free him or send senu him to the electric chair Assistant District Attorney Taylor re replied replied replied plied briefly brieR saying paying a that most of the thi questions raised by b Patrick already alread had hadi been passed upon by b the court of or ap appeals appeals peals p als |