Show SKETCH CAUSES NEW NW LAWIN LAW IN MURDER CASES CASS CASSOne One of oC the most striking compliments ever or paid to a theatrical representation b by tho the lawmakers of oC an any state was re recently re- re tendered Evidence Evi Evi- deuce dence during its Is presentation at t Keiths Keith's theatre in Boston Boston This sketch 13 Ia I running run run- rn- rn ning at the Orpheum In this cl city While this elrin stirring bit of vaudeville was enjoying a vogue In Boston Boiton that tint drew all al classes of or people to Keiths Keith's to see Jee It It I. I the Massachusetts l legislature turo was In session Among the tho pending bills bis under consid was one Introduced by State Senator Senator Sen Sea ator Fay wa providing pro for tor timo tho abolition of the lie death a penal penalty In nil all 1 cases when the the nce eId nc against a an an accused person was purely urel circumstantial tat Mr Fay had b been n moved to Introduce the lie bill bi by the outcome outcome out out- come conic of th the Tucker mur murder r case cae In tn I which a man had been ln b tried for tor murder convicted and hanged A few days fow-days days Int i a n man died In the time Lowell Mass Workhouse workhouse work work- house who Just before death mado ma-do mao a aCul full of ot the crime for tor which another another another an an- Cul other man mon had suffered death cath This tragic blunder of af tho the courts court had produced pro pro- pr- pr a profound impression In the tho state hut not sufficient to fully tuly convince the tho ultra conservative members of of the legislature legis legis- ulra lature laturo latuf Of l the lie necessity of or a change chance In Inthe Inthe 11 the law of or the state state Senator Fa Pay Fay saw Circumstantial Evidence Evi Evl- dence deace and conceived a n bright hl idea He did not believe It possible for any anyone one to witness e the production of the tho play withOut without with with- out being convinced that capital punishment punish ment was too extreme a penalty to in inflict lit lit- 1 whom the filet on an any person a against most mot direct testimony of ot eye witnesses was la lacking hacking Mr tr Fay acted as soon coon loon as OB ashe ashe he reached this this' conclusion He went vent to the mana of Keiths Keith's theatre and made on-n on arrangements for tor a n special matinee This was given I cn on tho morning of March 2 last There was but tho the one act on that special bill bibi but the tIme theatre wa was wat Ip cal bi well filled Among Amon the guests guest were iee tho the members wel fled of or the th state legislature lature whom 11 Mr Mi Fa Pay Fay desired to Influence practically all the leaders of or the Suffolk county bar and al about students from Crom Harvard d Harvar law IW school schol Harrison Armstrong the tIme author of or the pin pIa play and at present head of oC the producing ing log company controlling the act ac was present He says sas that lint nobody ever Aver play played cd to a more appreciative audience than theolie theone the theone one olie gathered c that morning moring In Keiths Keith's theatre tH The rd fine points point of such technicalities technicalities as RS are in the act were eagerly erly ca grasped b by the astute Ic legal al minds of oC the assembled audience At the conclusion of the lie performance both author and ami actors actor were given en an nn Impromptu reception when they received congratulations from fromm m many mapy n distinguished law lawyers ers But the greatest compliment of all al was paid when the thE legislature short shortly afterwards after after- wards ards passed Senator Fays Fay's bill Almost the tho last vestige of or opposition had le bet been l wiped out by tho ho presentation of tH the pin play |