Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-05-10
Laid At REST At ALBANY
Mrs. Harris Took the Body
There for Interment.
WRITTEN STATEMENT GIVEN OUT

A Lengthy Review of the Case Written
Last Saturday Services at the Grave
The Mother Shed No Tears-The serv-
ices Were Protestant.
ALBANY, May 1O-Mrs. Harris expects
to proceed to her home in East Mortified,
Mass, to-day with her son Allan. She
stopped last night with a sister-in- law,
Miss Jessie Harris, of Lansinbnrgh. 1t is
thought that she will, after quiet rest in
her home, go tc Brooklyn to look after the
publishing of the contemplated book.
The body of her son Carlyle arrived from
Sing Sing last evening. 1t was placed in
hearse and was driven to the Rural
Cemetery, followed by carriage in which
were Mrs Harris, dressed in deep black,
Allan, Mrs. Goldbury, a friend, and a
young and decidedly handsome lady
dressed in black, Mrs. Harris sister-in
law. All the members of the party were
uncommunicative.
Mrs Harris and Allan were both re-
markably cool and collected throughout,
and neither shed tear. The Rev. e. A.
Chapman, who has a charge close to the
cemetery, officiated at the interment He
read the simple burial service of the Epis-
copal Church. When all was over, the
party re-entered the carriage and left the
cemetery.
The lot in which the interment was made
has been the property of the family for
years Carlyle's grandmother, Susan NJ.
Newland. his grandfather, Edwin A. Har-
ris, and the latter's sons are buried there
Thus Carlyle Harris sleeps with his kin.
4 All were Albanians. Edwin A. Harris for
years kept a furniture store here. Car
IL ~. a--io 1cr.
| and reared in this city and left here about
] % years ago,
The last statement of Carlyle Har ris has
| been given out from the State prisons de-
| partInent. The original manuscript is to
| be sent to Mrs. Harris later on at her
Massachusetts home by Superintendent
LaJhrop.
1t is penned on several sheets of foolscap
| paper. There are no traces of nervousness
on the part of the writer. There are
4 erasures in two places, but Harris added
postscript in pencil saying they were
made by him and signs his name. The
| manuscript is written in good hand. 1t
| as follows:
May 6, 1898.
Notification has been brought me that
| Gov. Flower has refused to interfere with
| the execution of the sentence of the lower
| court in my case.
Evidence has come to light that my
wife was, for years before her death, adj
1 Iicted to the use Tor misuse) of the drug
| from an overdose of which she died. l am
| sentenced to death upon the supposition
that substituted a capsule containing five
grains of morphine, for one of the harmless
capsules prescribed for her ten days before
Ier death.
| "Now, it is self evident to any one hay
n2 any knowledge of medicine that no
)ne addicted to morphine could be muir
lered with five grains of that drug, be-
cause, for such a person, five grains would
not he a fatal dose. Upon this fact was
based my motion for retrial, which Recor-
der Smyth denied, and later my plans for
| Executive interference.
''In recognition of this last plea, a com
missioner was appointed to investigate the
credibility Of the witnesses who had vol
| unteered testimony as to my wifes habit.
l Their evidence remained mistaken, and
/ though the prosecution attempted u rebuff
tai, they did not dare to produce in open
court the witnesses whose at1idavits were
| the most important of those on which Re-
corder Smyth denied my motion for retrial
II refer to Eunice Rockwell, Rachel
| Cookson, DIR. Treverton and DIR. Hand,
who in their affidavits forswore the testi-
mony given on my trial, as have shown,
and to Dilworth ChUate.
| "Hence it was established before the
Governors commissioner by the testimony
of Dr. Kinmouth, DIR. Woolman, Miss
4 jackson, Miss Waddell and others that my
wife purchased morphine frequently and
that she foolshly used it to quiet neuralgia
| pain. 1t is not claimed, and never has
| been, that my wife wilfully destroyed
\ herself, for she was beloved and
happy But the fatal mistakes of
| those who self administer morphine are
matters of record all over the world.
II oh Of 111,Sn
preferred against me, l delivered myself at
once into custody, demanding an investi-
cation. Again ON the Goth of April last,
l although under sentence of death, refused
| to take advantage of free opportunity to
escape AS to this last matter Keepers
Murphy and Hulse and other prison officials
will bear lue out.
80 how is it that in a case where So
many facts and the entire behavior of the
defendant all invite Executive clemency,
together with the petition of over $4,000
| citizens, among them many who are
| prominent in the national esteem, such
| clemency should be- denied.
because the action of the court was not
justified by the facts in the case. and hence
the public cutlery must be silenced by a
seeming justification of the court outside
} | Of the fucts.
'tWhere there was no doubt of guilt
Gov. Flower has not hesitated to interfere
| as in the case of James Minnaugh, about 4
year ago; but in that case the facts JUST
fed the court and there was no Recorder
. Smyth clamoring to be upheld.
Carlyle Harris, living, would be &
| daily menace to the career of Smyth, Well
man and others. Dead, he will be soor
forgotten and the affairs may go on as
before.
"There is an idea in the minds of many
that at the time of my wife's death I de-
sired marriage with some other woman
- Such person has never been found, MOI
does she exist. 1t is my misfortune tina
/ have been prosecuted by libel and inu
endo through the columns of the pres
rather than by means of witnesses il
| COURT
He Expresses his thanks to the jury
men who have stated that had they know
of the newly found evidence they would
have acquitted him. He does not blam
the witnesses who did not offer them
selves sooner Gratitude is also expressed
to his friends for their aid.
at has been reported in the newspapers
l that during nv stay here in Sing Sing