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Show DRAMATfC P . Albert T.. Patrick Argues Four flours for Liberty Be fore Supreme Court. New York, March 5. In a dramatic appeal before the appellate division of the supreme court in. Brooklyn today, to-day, Albert T. Patrick, who was sentenced sen-tenced to death for the murder or William Marsh Rice In September, 1900, argued nearly Jour hourtj for Lis liberty. The principal points of his contention conten-tion were that his conviction was tho result of a "colossal conspiracy on the part of the Justice at his trial and tho authorities who prosecuted htm."' and hat Governor lllgglns had not legal right to commute the sentence of life Imprisonment as he had not asked for or consented to such commutation. com-mutation. Decision was reserved. Tho scene In couit while I ho condemned con-demned man pleaded his cause with nil the mental agitation and fervor or a trained lawyer, was' sensational. Patrick declared that life imprisonment imprison-ment was a more severe sentence than death, and asked the court either to give him his Hberty or send him to tho electric chair under tho original sentence. , Assistant District i Attorney Taylor, in reply, said that - Patrick - should either accept the sentence of life im-I im-I prisonmcnt, or. If he did not accept It, I' the only thing left to do was to electrocute elec-trocute him. Patrlck'sc plea throughout was im-' im-' passioned. Much of it appeared to bo addressed rather to the crowd in the I court room than to the court and at one time Justice Jenkins reminded him he should speak to the couit. The prisoner referred bitterly to the manner in which he alleges justice was dispensed in "these modem times." He declared that the prosecuting prose-cuting officers nowadays ''protect the rich, oppress the poor and pick out the men whom they wish t,o prosecute." Patrick closed bis appeal by urging the court not to take an "impressionistic" "impression-istic" lew of the law. "When you decide de-cide this case," he said, "be sure, either that I am an innocent man and should go free, or else that I am a scoundrel and deserve to go down to my fate. Thenthc people 'vi ill be satisfied sat-isfied w ith your decision." In the course of the three hours strain Patrick broke the decorum of the court but once. That was when the assistant district attorney said: "This relator cannot avail himself of the commutation of the death sentence." sen-tence." "I want lihoiiy or death." interposed Tatric!;. "that's all " |