Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-05-02
The Marquis de MOres is Once More
in Trouble in His Na-
tive Land.
He Has Been Arrested, Charged with
lnciting the Troops to
Mutiny.
Printed Documents were Found in his
House, Which Subs,antiate
the Charge.
Snatched from the Jaws of Death,

AUBURN, N. Y, April 29-Notwith-
standing all the elaborate preparations
for the electrical execution of Kemmr
ler, notwithstanding the ignorant mur-
derer had professed his readiness to meet
death, Notwithstanding Warden Dureton
had practically decided upon the time of
administering the fatal current, and not
withstanding most of the authorized wit
nesses had arrived in Auburn, the whole
proceeding is now stopped and indef-
nitely postponed. This postponement
has been accomplished by the serving of
writ of habeas corpus and not in many
years has there been so dramatic an H.
lustration in New York state of the tre-
mendous power exerted by that vener.
able anti-Saxon process. Here was
a low, brutal uneducated mur-
derer, condemned to death and wait
ing only for an order to leave his cell
and walk to the fatal chair. He had
made his will giving away all he was
worth in the world, slate, pictorial
bible, a testament and a trick puzzle.
He had just been baptised into the faith
Of the Methodist church and was receiv-
ing the last words of his ministerial ad-
visers; his coffin had been made and
he was soon to be placed in it and
mangled by physicians knives, when at
this last moment lawyer, unknown to
Warden Durston and not only unknown
to the prisoner, but even unexpected by
him, lawyer from the distant city of
New York who in his regular practice
has nothing to do with murder cases,
suddenly appears and gives the con-
demned
NEW LEASE ON LIFE.
It was as if at q hanging in county
Jail, at the very moment the rope was be-
ing fastened you heard an imperious rap
at the Jail door and messenger should
stride in bringing a reprieve from the
governor. Such at any rate was the Of
feet produced here at Auburn to-day at
the prison and on the streets when the
startling news was announced. The
lawyer who caused this commotion was
Roger NJ. Sherman, of New York City.
He had never communicated with
Kemmler and very likely had never
known anything about him except
through the newspapers. just who en-
ployed Sherman would be interesting to
know. His connection with the case
seems to be like that OF w. Bourke Cock
ran, who year ago opposed the infic-
ton of death by electricity uI oa Kemmler
on the ground of it's being cruel and un-
usual and therefore against the state
constitution. There is little doubt that
Cochran after getting interested in the
fight sought assistance from the electri-
cal company whose apparatus has been
chosen to kill murderers in this state.
The case was carried to the court OF ,ap-
peals but that bodH decided that the leg
islative enactment must stand. Since
that time there appears to have been
nothing done until yesterday and today,
except a weak attempt in the legislature
this session to abolish capital punish
ment 1t is only by chance that the pres
ent step, ostensibly in behalf of Kemm-
Ter, counts for anything, for had there
not been delay in getting the appara-
tus in final order and completing other
arrangements, the criminal would have
been t.,.:, ..'
. sCHoCKED INTO THE NEXT WORLD
this morning just after daybreak. It
was the warden's intention, it is declared
by those who have seen The first notifica-
tions, to have tie decd done this morning.
Had his original a1Hns been carried out