Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-04-16 | Page 14 | The Pity of it in Chapman's Case

THE PITY OF IT ITIN ITIN IN CHAPMANS CHAPMAN'S CASE It Isn't lent very polite to speak I slightingly of the supreme court I but I dont don't feel Ceel obliged to employ any hypocritical phrases of ot rever rever- reverence reverence I ence toward the court I feel Ceet the I thing humanly Who Is this a speaking speaking a scholar a a lawyer No It Is Gerald Chap Chap- Chapman Chap Chapman man pleading for tor his life lite before the board ot or pardons ot or Connect Connecticut cut Again I dont don't know that I can control my voice long enough to tomake tomake tomake make you rou understand Of 0 course I II I haven't been using It much for tor over o a year I have acquired a sense lense or of o futility utility of or the whole pro pro- proceeding reeding Gerald Chapmans Chapman's plea was wast- wast wasted wast wasted ed j be he was wu hanged But It must hue have been rattler rather hard for Cor that board of or pardons to turn him Chapman didn't cringe didn't ask askor for mercy Rather he tried to reason with the board pointing out what heI he termed I term d discrepancies the In inthe the proceedings that found him guilty resorting to a scholarly dis discourse course that would have haTe done credit to a great lawyer laWer The The whole thing thine thIn must have haTe been rather a pitiful pitiful a man in the shad shadow ow of ot the the gallows scorning to get down on his bis knees and beg striking log ing this last blow in his defense as AI a sort lort of ot despairing futile gesture ture lure The supreme pity Is that a man manof manot or of Chapmans Chapman's undoubted Intellect sho should ld not have turned his hla fine lne mInd to an honest business budness