St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-12
FIGHTING FOR LIFE.
Murderer BuloW Protests
Against His Own Judicial
Suicide.
Can the Law be Made the
Vehicle for SeIf-Destruc-.
ton ?
No Quarter for Quack Doctors
and Unskillful Praeti-
TONERS.
Fopeible Exodus Of a Disrepu-
table Gang Of House
Breakers.

The petition for stay of execution
in the case of Albert Bulow. sentenced
to be hanged on the 18th inst. at Little
Falls, was argued in the supreme court
yesterday. Attorney c. A. Lindbergh,
representing the condemned man, sub
mitted that in case of so grave i'm
portance, where the question of taking
the life of human being was con-
cerned, the utmost importance should
be followed to cut out every question of
doubt that could exist as to the guilt of
the party charged with the crime. 1t
was not question affecting only
the person of the defendant, it was
one in which precedent was
to be established, and in which the
whole commonwealth was interested.
If to permit the sentence of the court
in this case to be carried out would es-
tabliSh precedent that would open the
doors for any uncertainties in the flu
ture trial of similar cases, it would mat
ter not whit what the surrounding
circumstances of the case might be;
all should be settled so as to establish
rule of safe practice for the future.
The petitioner states further, that
person seeking suicide through judicial
proceedings. might go so far as to make
admissions to court to secure his end.
This for one reason should be sufficient
to require additional evidence to that of
the plea of guilty in order to take the life
of the person pleading. 1t was full Their
a question with the petition as to
whether person charged with so grave
an offence ought to be permitted to
waive his rights of trial by jury. The
act committed may have so unbalanced
the mind of the pleader as to make HIM
entirely irresponsible upon the confess
many authorities which showed that no
person pleading guilty to murder In the
first degree was ever hanged without
being found guilty from evidence given
to jury.
Assistant Attorney General Childs
argued for the state. The state, he
said, instead of building objections to
the prayer of the petition that execu-
ton should be stayed. had favored the
submission to the supreme bench.
The utter submission of the condemned
man was such as to awake the sympathy
of all. To his mind the state clearly
contemplated sentence of death upon
a plea of guilty OF murder in the first
degree, but he did think that the eX-
pectations of most criminals were that
of mercy granted upon confession
without trial. There was no definable
distinction between capital and lesser
crimes, and the pleader was as guilty
If he pleaded such guilt before
a cautious and careful judge, as he
would be if tried and convicted. There
is no law which made imperative that
man accused of crime should avail him
self of trial by jury; there is one,
however, which granted all men that
privilege-''a speedy trial by jury"
Bulow was indicted, and upon arraign-
ment was given all attorney to defend
him. Two days thereafter the prisoner
appeared before Judge Searle. County
Attorney Lyon made brief statement
of the case to court, followed by an ap-
pealing address for the prisoner by his
attorney, Mr.. Lindbergh. The prisoner
pleaded guilty and declared himself
satisfied with it. He was afterwards
sentenced to be hanged on the 10Th day
of this month.
The supreme court heard both argu-
ments and took the matter under adj
VlSement.