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Show & Ml .f :( : W Clara Phillip convicted of pound in g a woman to death with a hammer, ham-mer, waa aenteneed to ten jreara' imprisonment. She escaped and hat only comparatively recently been recaptured re-captured after a long chase With detached, almost impersonal interest, the murderess gazes at , . ' the electric chair or the hangman's noose. Observation has taught her that very few women in America pay the extreme penalty i i ,. . . .. - Chicago Asks Itself the Question After Death Penalty Is Meted to Aged Nitti Crudelle 1 v'n n''-';, .' ;:; . fy-'ny , j j) . . Evidence that beauty and . ' ) ' fl S ' train, do mfluer. tha . -V ' 7 i fJr In New York. S jury in Chicago is fur- '. lATY Anna Buxxi was nished by Nitti Crudelle, "'-"r - .. ' ' ' eently condemned old and ugly, sentenced f ..." ; .. ftt . ' tha chair for the - to death; Vera Trepag- ,. t '.l ' : t" f . o , i . V . J If i Schneider, Bro mer. aged and unlovely. W - ' . . : buildinf . eontrae sentenced for one ver: , t r with kAM K 4 Saved by Brains TliAINS. ' not beauty, unt emea ram (Ae fallov. Tfcii ii (Ae viea AeW bf Mr. Wauirei Wajon Hucl(, for met Cengreuvoman from J Iltinoit, in Jelermimng the reaction of i un'et when confronted with iedi'mf the ; fate of a orrran (foyer. i Mrs. Peter Nitti CrmJelle, old. ugl) Italian peatant woman, tho vat tentencei ' to hang on October 12, it the victim of the natural Jao of the "ummal of the fltttit." according to Mrt, Hack. h laid: "Mrt. Nitti Crudelle vat condemned to perith when the wot born. Subcomcioud) thote twelve mm who tentencei her to dio were urged on bf natwe't verdict. They were compelled to do awa) with Ait lower form of lift which Wat unable to wttam - ' ill place tn a world of higher intellect. "Intelligence, not beautf, iomwhmt hat taved to many Women from the gallowt. Any twelve men or women will become powerlett in, the face of menlatitiet eaaal to their own." CILENCE. The shameless, sinister v silence that broods in broad day. A room in which vsrythlng' is dwarfed by ths presence of a huge chair, equtppad with strapi and metal appliance grisly, overpowering. . A IJTTLE gsp comes involuntarily from the witnesses, assembled as they look at ths shrinking figure la th black robe. It U a woman who approaches ap-proaches the throne of Death. . Bow long before this scene is to be enacted before chosen guests in the - Death. Bouse at Sing Sing? How kng before a woman' climbs the gallows in . ths Stats of Illinois? '. ' . Two juries have Just condemned two . Women for murder snd two judges have i passed sentence of death upon the accused. ac-cused. , Already the. pajres of leading dailies bristle with criticism and praise of ths stern justks meted out. Wives of the Jurors who rendered the - verdict of murder - in ths first degree, with no recommendation for mercy, in the ease of lira. Sabelle Nitti Crudelle, ' . tried, for the killing of her former husband, hus-band, protested against the sentence . passed.. Mrs. Crudelle is the first white woman in Cook County to be sentenced to hang, and the jurors' wives were unanimous, In the hope that she will be granted a ' ", new trial. t' . , . .' , . . fpHE fact that Mrs. Crudelle is na longer young and has no faint claim to good looks is set up by some of those epposed to the carrying out of ths death sentence as the reason for the verdict." "Chicago," they cry, "believes in the survival of ths attractive!" ' This gsunt, unlettered, peasanl-liks woman, they point out, is to die for the commission of the same crime for which pretty Clara Phillips received a ten-year sentence, " ENGLAND fell in line in this year of grace with the execution of a woman for the first time in fifteen years. ' ' Mrs. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywater paid the extreme penalty for the murder of Percy Thompson, the . woman's huabsad, a shipping clerk, who -wss subbed to death in a dark street In a London suburb whils returning from the theatre with his wife. The two who were cxerdted had, it was proved in court, long planned to rid themselves of : the obstacle to their happiness, discussing discuss-ing poison and ground glass as methods as callously ss might ths de Medicis of old have talked over the projected removal re-moval 'of a victim. ' rrHE case wss the most sensational murder case since the famous Crip-pen Crip-pen affair, and caused bitter controversy throughout the land. ' ' The trial Judge branded the crime aa - "a common, ordinary charge of a wife - and her admirer murdering the husband," hus-band," but the publicity given the case developed two schools of sentimentalists, , . one contending that the woman should be reprieved because o her sex and because be-cause she had no part in the actual stau- bing of her husband, and the other faction fac-tion holding that the man should be let ' " off, as he waa the blind instrument of the woman with whom he was infatuated, . and was, besides hardly more than a boy. The efforts of both parties, however, failed to move either the Lord Chief Justice or the Home Secretary, and before be-fore and. during the execution women , marched in a drizzling rain outside he walU. of Hotlowsy Jail carrying placards plac-ards inscribed, "If these are hanged, the judge and jury -are also guilty of murder," and "Murder cannot abolish murder." Editorial reaction to the affair revealed re-vealed a growing sentiment tn favor of the abolition of capital 'punishment ia -. the United Kingdom. Ramsay Mae- - Donald, chairman of the Labor Party, in a communication to a newspspe. . angrily declred the executions to be "aa outrage to every sensibility which marks civilized beings iron savages." Evidence that beauty and . ' S ' .) - Jfl brains do influence the A , , ' f ! SSrr jury in Chicago ia fur- . V ' . V Xy niah'acl by Nitti Owdenav '-...';' 7:V old and ugly, aenteneed , f , V .;,-'. ftt to death; Vera Trepag- I- . 'f. ' nier, aged and unlovely, '. j . -J' ''J1 r '"' '" ' ' aenteneed for one year; . Jp'" l . Tillie : Klimek, lacking ' ' ' .. : ,. . charm, sentenced for life; Cora Orthwein. dashing and handsome, acquit- ' s" ted; Ruby Dean, beautiful acquitted, and Pauline Plotka. beautiful, acquit- : " ted. There are shown in the etching above, left to right, Cora Orthwein. Pauline Plotka. Ruby Dean and Vera Trepagnier. Below, left to right. -1 ' ' Nitti Crudelle and Tillie Klimek . . - .. ,.- . b . . ... . , . . " ; L In New York, Mrs. Anna Buxxi was re-, eently condemned to the chair for the mur-'. der of . Frederick Schneider, Bun buildinc contractor, with whom she .had lived eight years. Only .men were ta the courtroom when sentence was pro- nounced. Fearing a demonstration by hysterical hys-terical women. Justice OUalley had ordered . I ," tion to life imprisonment she win be the third woman put to death at Sing Sing. TN 1899 Mrs. Martha Place took her . A seat in the deadly chair, the first woman ever to be Jut to death by volts, for killing her stepdaughter, Ida, ta Brooklyn.. , . Exactly ten years later, Mary Farmer, of Watertowa, went to the chair for murdering two aged couples. Has a change come? ... Scorn and contumely were heaped upon former Governor Bell, of Vermont, and Roosevelt, of New. York, when each Ex-" ecutive refused to commute sentences of death pronounced upoa women convicted ' of brutal murders, but they stood firm. : Petitions subscribed to by thousands all . over the country made no Impression on them. . The executions took place as they had been ordered. Succeeding Governors have not bean so obdurate. .. . Editorial opinion regretted reversion' to woman hanging, bat one newspaper urged that "if women are ta be excluded from this penalty they should be definitely defi-nitely excluded snd not invited to presume pre-sume upon privileges which really do not exist" - A few years ago women might com mit- murder with impunity. Almost any Jury would setura a verdict of "Not. guilty" if the defendant were young and pretty, and If "Guilty," it could be depended de-pended upon that the sentence would be the lightest possible under the law. But that state of mind for jurors has , seemingly passed away. that Women be kept out of the :room. As a consequence nearly a hundred women were turned back by court attendants at-tendants whin they attempted to enter ,. the courtroom. If Mrs. Buxxi is executed and there seems some doubt oa the point, as much, agitation ia going on to obtain commute- ... OasvrlsM. ISIS. W FWM Imtmt Cwaar ' . . .. ' . ..." ''.! . . |