Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-07-17 | Page 10 | Permitted to Live

PERMITTED TO LIVE Extraordinary Scene in Recorder Coils Court Now York New York July IUAmi extraordinary scene was witnessed In the count oom of Recorder Goff when a Jury acquitted Mrs Lizzie Madaus of killing her husband an engineer with a potato knife The Recorder Re-corder bad charged the Jury strongly for conviction and few believed the defense could hope for anything better than a disagreement dis-agreement Even the prisoner who lied born stolon throughout time trial cried as the Recorder rlnlshed his charge Mr MathitiRM live children Including her pris onborn Infant were In the courtroom and thi nearby corridor When the Jury rot ro-t and tho foreman announced the verdict Recorder Gout said to the prisoner pris-oner Tho ancients had a law whereby In the case of u very outrageous crime they would sometimes ormlt the criminal to live that ho might suffer tin shame of hIs crime which they considered a severer punishment than any they could Inflict and tM > mithln > like this must hivo been In tills Jurys mind that they lot you live and look upon tho faces of your children the children whom you have made or shanu The result of this verdict most extraordinary ex-traordinary as It Is even In the face of your own testimony gives you your freedom free-dom but I you will carry with you the remembrance re-membrance that you have murdered your luinbniid and orphaned your children Von may go The Recorder refunod to order the restoration res-toration to tho mother of two children who have been placed In the care of a charitable society