| Show mf4t f 70 J i URDERERS 13 SCHEME NOW abl IS INSANITY 1 cd oc i e Practice Might Almost Be a i Classed as a Fine Art How It Has Been Successfully P h + rhJ t Done with Legal Assistance RAN Assist-ance in Some Celebrated N New York Cases s frooD Lake York Its a shame tv it Lake I was ready to go to trial I I murder caso this morn Iiili my client of 1 Mj that fool of a i 8 had to go to work and get are Ddtpo t a-re and a haircut Now I cant IrlcOi e him tried for two months lies r to wait now until tho vacation sea la over Ill mako sure that hoi AlLY loot ho-i shave any more while I have tiling to do with his defense 101 n vas coming out of the criminal rotor trti building when I ran into a law i LotHl an old acquaintancehe is one 1o ipt the bestknown criminal lawyers ins ttta in-s countrywho appeared to me as Igjh he was about mad enough to keiic The prosecutor consulted the judge on the bench Ho said ho was willing The prisoner was arraigned once more Defendant at the bar called out Clerk Penney you say you change your plea of not guilty of murder In tho first degree heretofore Interposed in your case and now plead guilty to murder in the second degree Is that your plea It is came tho response from the prisoner at the bar Two months before thalrlbht after the shavo and hair cutno such plea would have been accepted Death In tho electric chair was then the only Iwl iwcIyGA FA ilR EBB RS I RS vre4kr t C droll 1 1D1 4 I CHt vlur III > i fed J l ell his R FAvu r thou DODGE 8 TYcSNG TO Fr7T coedU FBiE UCDE nit uu S Bnp out of hit skin writes Gus Boer Ma the New York World Iro2J tin JWhats the i matter this morning Inquired as 18 Nothing the matter he replied 1 f sty here I was ready for the trial of at man I was assigned to look after i the charge of homicide and that ° tag l spoiled my defense f The lawyer explained The case was e 01 cold blooded murder It was u tielde committed while In the act tommlttltng a burglary The de ° Mat was an oldtimer Tho district toiey was looking for a conviction II I aurder In tho first degree tho pun ral lment > of which Is I death in tho nice 1 c chair The lawyer who hud been signed to defend the man surely wasp i was-P against It I I ty I man was Insane at the time of e Mooting said tho attorney The strict attorney laughed when hoard ho-ard about the kind of defense that sa to be offered Two months later the prisoner was Wt to court again What n angel I was unable to Identify tho an His haIr was long and looked UH I Wgh a comb had never passed rough It There wall a two mOllthll W OVth of reddish heard on his face i la I r eyes were stars Altogether tin tendant appeared mine like a inon r than n human being 1 e ° The Ruse That Worked I Sa nap trying him hes not right J his upper story said tho lawyer toe J to-e assistant district uttorney In arge The Prosecutor seemed ton r aVe to-n doubts In order to go to al In tin rasa It was necessary to It t a jury and then there was some I ULt as to whether after all a con ttdoonf murder in tho first degree Uld lie secured ° Will you take a pier of guilty of murder in the second degree 1 asked elal jer 1 I c t 1 0 i 1 I J > < Ift > c nn solution of the case But two months under the guidance of the experienced nttorneyatIaw had made an absolutely absolute-ly I positive change for the better The miserable life of the prisoner was method that Is only too saved by n ° often applied In cases which are con blileied desirable The defendant intend In-tend of being put to death is now Diving a life sentence In Sing Sing There are others of his kind there Nobody knows that better than does the shrewd Connaughton the principal keeper of tho prison or as ho is often called the P KIt I K-It is not always that the murderer succeeds In cuirying his shamming successful termination I game to a Wil recall well the case of Policeman liam II Ennis His Is considered the most remarkable of all the shamming cases that ever came under the ob I seivntlon of the officials in Sing Sing Ho Kniils was a Brooklyn policeman was a married man und as far as his police record went a good policeman drunk and when he But he would get was In his cups there was no telling what ho would not do The bluecout und his wife did not well Some said It was n get along Si of too much motherinlaw Whether that bo true or not Ennls shot and killed his wife and then shot his motherinlaw who recovered When arrested Knnls l whammed sui etdat mania Ho was put on trial nevertheless Ills defense was Insan It tv Ho was convicted Throughout he entire tilal the fellow sat beside his counsel as though In a trance His lawyer pleaded and pleaded with great rurnostness Alienists swore tho po llcumnn was surely mad His friends also testified that In their opinion ho was of unsound mind Ennls never that said a word There were many In crowded courtroom who after looking Insisted that he was suro at the man IIIollWA > L Iy a fit subject for an Insane asylum They called him tho crazy cop But tho district attorney won Ms point The Jury found tho policeman guilty of murder in tho list degree There was nothing else for the Judge to do than to sentence the man to be electrocuted at Sing Sing Ennls heard no sentence and acted as though ho I dill not know what was happening I They took him to Sing Sing Ho was I weak and broken in health Ho was placed In one of tho steel cages In the death house and there the man nat In almost utter sllunci for nearly two yearn while his case was being passed upon by the highest court In the state During all these das and months while Ennls was confined In the death house he never spoke to one of the other condemned men Although they tried their bPst to entertain the convicted con-victed policeman he never spoke to them When the warden and the keep ers attempted to haw him Into a conversation con-versation Hauls I would mumble some I thing that they could not understand Ho would sit all day and long Into tho night always In a crouching position When once a week they would open his cell door and toll him to step outside out-side that he might be bathed and shaved ho would hobble about us If he was a wild beast But never n woid did ho utter At first he refused to taste food After a while ho ate but sparingly only lie wasted away terribly The Chloroform Test Dr Irvine the expert physician of the prison was among the few who seemed to bo In doubt as to whether Ennis mind was really affected or not His case was widely discussed among I experts but here was a kind of Insanity In-sanity that was up to that time practically prac-tically unknown Ono day there came word from Albany Al-bany that tho court of appeals had confirmed the sentence and conviction of the lower court and that tho death sentence must be carried out according accord-ing to law Warden Johnson was puzzled puz-zled Warden Johnson who is a very coil sclontlous man reported to the governor gov-ernor and the latter In order that no Injustice should bo done and an insane In-sane man made to suffer tho death penalty appointed a commission composed com-posed of leading experts In insanity and they went to Sing Sing npd looked at Ennls They questioned the warden ward-en and the keepers and from them learned the story I have narrated here If wo can only get his mind off the subject said the doctors If ho Is shamming we can find It out only by getting his mind off the subject sub-ject jectThey They carried Ennis out of the death house and up to the operating room In tho hospital Inside of the prison walls There they placed him on an operating operat-ing table and tho chloroform was administered ad-ministered They gave him a small Gentlemen > io staamjererl you you have found mo out But you would not have done BO had you not put nip under chloroform Now Im rtlad Its over and 1 r ready to take my medicine You cannot Imaglnn what 1 have suffered during all these long months while I was trying to beat the chair Now 1 am glad the end is at hand 1 well remember the case of Martin Mar-tin Thorn tho barber who together with Augusta Nack a midwife killed William Ouldcnsuppc a rubber In a Turkish bath William F Howe thn veteran criminal lawyer was his senior counsel Joseph Moss now a innglstiate and at that time also connected con-nected with the firm of Howe Hum mel was also of counsel I sat next to Thorn during his trial which took place In Long Island City and later on 1 saw him electrocuted In Sing Sing There was nobody at that time who understood mora about putting uptime up-time right king of defense than did the veteran Howe I remember going to him Just as the trial was about to start and asking him what kind ofa defense Thorn would put up Ah my boy said Mr Howe to mo I d nt know myself That is it nil depiuls upon circumstances In tho first place we ho always spoke of his client as we did not commit tho crime Therefore you seeand quite readily toothat we nro Innocent of Uils most awful charger that a grand Jury guided by a misinformed district attorney has declared against usA us-A short tlmo after the commencement commence-ment of the trial Mrs Nack announced an-nounced that she would turn states evidence She confessed all and swoio that Thorn had committed tho murder I was assigned that night to notify Mr Howe of what had occurred I found him In an uptown hotel He had retired when tho bellboy took up my card I was asked to Come right In my boy I told him that tho woman In tho caso had confessed that Thorn had killed Guldcnsuppo and that she had helped tho man to dispose of the body of tho victim What are you going to do now I about tho defense I Inquired I have It I have Itl all at once shouted Mr Howe looking as happy as a schoolboy with a now toy What do you think of it 1 The only thing left you is insanity insan-ity I suggested And that Is where you aro wrong replied Mr Howe I told you I had It Hero Is our new defense I knew it all tho while Now please dont think that I Just manufactured It Why of course wo know all the time that this was the body of Guldensuppe although tho head was missing We know too who killed the man WP did not She did Yes she did All we had to do with the caso was tc fNlllJ c5I1T ALL DAYLONGANDAPNJ0 THE 6 T IA JtJCCEIJ c5ILEIfCE a d Ik f c dr r ll + t xtydtl ttfflRMG VOJG 5 7 7 ONDLRTNF PLffl o os ew CHLOR4FORf rERRgNOYN raTIFM ZA 9 ToT4 dose only just enough to mako him i short while As i for unconscious a j I the chloroform was beginning to wear j I off Dr Irvine suddenly pushed the I man off tho operating table so that I ho struck the door with a thud This awakened tho crazy cop In a I jiffy I jiffyGet up and hurry over to tha door commanded Mr Connaughton i who was present during the experiment I experi-ment I Ennis walked to the door Just asI you or I would In n natural way He had forgotten all about the hobbling j I and the crouching and that was his I undoing Oh jou fakir yelled the experts and Connaughton You fakir We found you out The moment Ennis realized that he I had been caught with tho goods on I PS Bin Bill Devery would have said j had ho been on hand he turned as white as a sheet Nobody realized hotter hot-ter than ho did that his end was at hand 1 help her out of pure gallantry to dispose of the body That Is no crime She did the killing nothing else That Is our defense Thorn went on the witness stand and told the story Just as Mr Howe had outlined it to me Hut the Jury did not believe him and convicted the barber of murder In tho first degree |
