| Show SINGULAR COURT SCENE two men K king ing and hamilton quarreled over the fitness of arthur to succeed eed garfield king killed hamilton with an axe the murderer was tried lately in troy N Y the jury came into court and asked the judgeton judge to define the difference between murder in the first and second degrees this implied that borne some of lie the jurors favored a second degree verdict the judge was about to answer the jury when king sprang tobis feet and said your honor and gentlemen of the jury this wag was not a A murder in the second degree it was a deliberate and premeditated murder I know that I have lave done arron wrong I that I ou ought glit to confess the truty truth and that I ought to be hanged here the prisoners counsel tried in vain vain to silence him no continued king I have lave done wrong it is my duty to conf mit and I cannot 11 help d doing so I cannot keep still I plead guilty to murder in the first degree it was fifteen minutes froid the time I struck the first blow with the axe until I struck tho the second time and all this time I kept thinking dg I will finish this man mail if this is is not premeditated murder what is it I have hac already killed two men what is my lileto mo me the life of either of these two men whom I have killed is worth ft a dozen of mine mine orlie alie jury again retired and returned with a verdict of murder M in the first degree he ile is to be hanged on nov ath it was a very singular scene |
