Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-29
HEALS CASE aopnLxss.
No New Trial Will y oSsutsd Hin.
me Journal Reporter Breaks the
aad Uews TO the Prisoner.

The Journal reporter visited the jail last
evening to see il Besl would ssy anything
,es.rding the decision Of the lsv cous,
which leaves the jadse nothing 70 do but
impose the sentence Of life impsisonnens
4, Thonaston.
Turnkey johnson opened the ponderous
door into the Jail proper On stepping In
the sight afforded by the dImIy lighted cor
,;aor., the locked and darksned cells. TO-
gs,ber With the knowledge that one vas
yoing 70 break news that must fell like
+, knell to fellow being. eli we're far from
psa,ant.
ch,rley Bears cell was dark and he vas
,,leep. The officer vaksped him by tap
ming on the grating and asked him to light
ri. Iiaht as there vas . man who wished to
zee him.
Doe. the man only want to see me. or
doe. be wish to peak With mey' queried
the prisoner, as be GIFTED his lamp.
"Both I guess" replied the ofacer, vho
m, unlocked the door and allosed the re
porter To enter
Taxing seat by the cot. the writer said
N the boy, whose thin, pale face vas quiet
IL turned toward his, There has been
,s,cript regarding your case received from
the las court today. What have you to
,.y concerning tf'
nYoa're ja,t rakened me from nap and
I hardly knos sbat to ssy." was the reply.
Nh. boy seeming not TO distinctly catch
the drift u the conversation.
The decision a. 10 shetbsr or not you
are 10 have new trial has been rendered. :"
"Ha.ii Mine and Stain and Crom-
sells" replied BeAl in an uneoncsrned
manner
"woald you care to know the result Of
thu. decision asked the reporter.
Certainly" was the reply that came in
.,one hat betokened suppressed emotion.
II. ha. been decided that you are to
have no new trial. have you anything to
Myf"
The prisoners face remained unmoved ~
he replied there is nothing ! could Say
,ha, you'd benefit me or your paper. Il
surely ought to have new trial." he re-
AIMED After moments silence II
think could prove my innocence i'll had
IT,
II you're innocent you must take cOur
age tha, i'll come out all right in the end"
Looking up quickly and apparently a.
inpoeen,lg asa young lad. he said. That
/. some help to me isn't it, All the help in
the world "
NJ ght there not be something that was
un.ad at the trial which you would like to
say nov -
told everything there like a child. I
didn't Know hat court was before, never
bad seen trial before"
Something vas thea said about . future
hope Of PARTON.
There's no hope of pardon in cases like
mine he said And the way things look
aos ,Asn't live to prove my innocence :"
WHEN asked why he fesrt d he sh ,uldn':
live be replied that he feared he had con
sumption and some trouble with his heart.
He didn't think he could live long in con-
fnement And truly the fellows face a.
appeared above the coverlet showed that
confinement or disease, and perhaps both,
have been making inrosds into his health. |
There appearing nothing further to saw the
reporter rose 10 90, saying as he did so. |
that be souiln't keep him from his sleep
longer Brs replied: II shall probably !
.l.h yan sere here before morning A.
won't 10 likely to get much more sleep
tonight.
It pa- prnble and yet no, . tear and
hardly a quiger Of the lip betrayed the
feeling. Of The prisoner, though the gen.
erai uipr. ssioo at tie jail was that he had
expected new trial