Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-11

more opportunity to say if you have any reason to offer why sentence of death should not be passed upon you"
 Mir. Brownlow looked at the court for moment steadily and then said: "l have only this to say, that the result of this trial is the most severe condemnation that could possibly be made of the jury system"
 "Prisoner," said the judge, sternly, when he saw that Mir. Brownlow had noth- ing further to offer, tsyou have persistently aggravated your situation from beginning to end. It would be impossible now, It ever had boon, to exercise any discretion m the matter of regulating your sentence. The sentence of the court is, therefore, that you be taken to the county jails confined there until Friday, the 21st of January, ana that you be then taken from your cell and hung by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy upon your soul ten tlemen of the jury,you are discharged"
 Mir, Brovnloy received the sentence as he had the verdict, without hinching, and to all efforts of either friends or reporters to ln- tercede Tn hls behalf, or enter into conver- sation with him, he simply asserted that ne had said what he had to say. But his friends did not let the matter rest. As the de- fendant's course had precluded any possl- bility of securing new trial, all they could do was to try to secure executive elem ency. A petition was circulated among the influential and wealthy residents in the city praying that his sentence be at least commuted until it should be dehnltely proven that Mrs. Brownlow had died by violence. Various obstacles lay before the | success of thIs petition. Perhaps the great | est was that the incumbent of the Guber- natOrial chair was a thoroughgoing poltl' 1 clan, and would fear to offend the general public by extending to rich man favor | that might without special risk have been granted to poor man.
 When Mir Brownlow had been taken to l the cell which he would occupy until he 1 should be put to death he called for the services of a lawyer. but not for the pur- ! pose of making 8 move for freedom. He 1 would not permit the lawyer to talk
 about that, but limited his services 1 strictly to putting his affairs into such 1 shape that there would be no possible l question of their disposition after his ! death. It was, perhaps, characteristic Of the 1 man that in choosing his attorney he passed l over the eminent men in the profession l whom he personally knew and sent for MT.
 Henry Parker, the young lawyer assigned to
 defend him by the judge, and whom MT.
 Brownlow had rebuffed so coldly and ! emphatically. The most important work for l Mir Parker was, of course, the drawing up | of his strange clients will. Mir. Parker's
 astonishment may, perhaps, be imagined
 when Mir. Brownlow directed that all his
 property without exception should be | given to ''Mrs. Leonora Brownlow, my
 wife, when she shall return to her home.'
 Mir. Parker was made trustee for her with
 a salary of five thousand dollars yearly, tc 1 be drawn from the estate until the lady
 should appear to clam the property.
 The young lawyer protested in vain at his
 clients extraordinary testament, pointing
 out that it made him, Parker, actually tho | ha;y ba nTa
 that Mrs. Brownlow was alive.
 "You are mistaken" responded Mir
 Brownlow, quietly; "I believe it."
 So the will was drawn as directed anG
 duly witnessed by officials of the jail. But
 Mr. Parker went about his duties with
 strange feeling of oppression and doubt
 Was the law about to take the life of aJ
 irresponsible man, or was it about to muF
 der an innocent mang It must be one 0
 these If he were hanged the will coult
 not be contested successfully by MT
 Brownlow's relatives, for it would be tn