Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-10

1882. II is extensively circu
lated for signatures throughou
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Too the honorable members o
the Board of Pardon ofthe Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania.
Your petitioners herein repre-.
sent that Sidney Ware has been
convicted and condemned tc
death in the court of Dauphit
County, for the murder in the
town of Lykers, on the 4th o
May, 1889, of Maurice Miller
and Frederick Kinder. We res
pectially pray for the pardon o
said Ware, for the following
reasons"
1. He was violently insane
from drinking a poisonous liquid
furnished without cost to him, by
and in the house of August Bra
ner, whose permit or license was
not revoked after the murder.
2. The Judges OF Dauphin
County had given to the said
August Braner, for and in con.
sideratiOn of $3.50, a permit to
furnish the said Ware aud otherl
the poison which rendered him
insane.
3. The Legislators of the Com.
monwealth enacted the law per-
mitting the judges to permit the
said August Braner to furnish
the said Ware and Others the
poisonous liquid.
4. A majority of the male citi-
zens of the Commonwealth voted
fer and elected these law makers
knowing that they favored a law
permitting the judges to sell a
p,rmit to the said August Bra
ner to furnish Ware and others
with the poisonous liquid, which
they knew produces temporary
insanity.
5: All of these men had guilty
knowledge of the possibility and
even probability OF the criminal
results of the several parts
enacted. This knowledge had
come to them through u repro
duction by the public press, pub
lie speakers, and the printed page
of the fact that the furnishing as
beverage Of said poisonous liquid
under forms OF law produces
yearly in Pennsylvania many
thousands of unnatural deaths;
many of these being murders and
suicides. These facts are taken
from statistics of criminal records;
are sworn to by public officers,
and have been published broad
cast for many years. .,,,.. =
D. Your petitioners desire 70
emphasize the fact that neither
August Braner who furnished the
poisonous liquid to Ware; nor the
judges who sold him the permit
to do so, nor the legislators who
enacted the law; nor the citizens
who voted for them, have been
apprehended, indicted, or tried,
though clearly every one of them
was a mediate or immediate par
iceps criminis.
We submit 1st. That to hang
Sidney Ware under all of the cir
cuI.stances, will be in conflict
with the principles of common
law, which is older and more sa-
cred than any mere statutory en-
actment.
2. 1t will be clear case of in
equity, and travesty on the
boasted civilization OF the nine
teenth century.
B. 1t will jeopardize the public
veal through the inevitable re-
troactive curse that comes soon or
late, to all aggregations of indi-
viduals, practising the injustice of
Furnishing the insane individual
agent in crime for the wrong do
ing, of which they themselves
Were clearly the aiders and abet-
tors.
We therefore humbly pray
that Sidney Ware be granted by
your honorable body uncoditional
pardon and immediate liberation
from prison, and your petitioners
will ever pray, &C." What pom
derous and crushing therefore
No anti-Prohibitionist will dare
answer.
l.. A. CUTLER.
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