New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-01-31
Judge Webber Furnishes Attorney Madigah
with Vlgor.
Three Years and Three Months is the Ian
grage Of the Sentence.
A Motion BY Attorney Peck for Arrest o.
Judgment Denied.
Arguments for a New Trial to be Made
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which dragged wearily along towards
three o'clock in the court room Monday
afternoon. Madigan sat there, restless
as ever His lawyers face wore SOL
emn all, while the eyes of two hundred
spectators closely studied the prisoners
movements. Promptly at three o'clock
Judge Webber asked Mr.. Peck if he had
anything to say regarding the verdict of
the jury. Peck arose in response and
slowly read a motion for an arrest of
Judgment, arguing therefore that the
Indictment did not contain any material
allegations. His argument lasted some
minutes, but at its close the Judge de-
MED the motion and called upon Mr.
Madigan, the defendant, to come forward
and take the customary oath. The US
ual questions as to how old he was, what
his profession had been previous to con-
vlction and whether he had ever prac-
ticed a mechanical trade, were then ask
ed and promptly answered. He was
forty-four years of age, he said, a lawyer
by profession and had never learned any
trade. Questioned as to whether he had
anything to say why sentence should not
be passed according to law, he replied
that he had not, but his attorney inter-
ceded for him and begged that the court
temper its sense of justice with mercy,
inasmuch as the prisoner had family
and had already been disbarred from
following his profession under the law
of the state.
The Judge then read in slow and
emphatic manner the awful Judgment
When the words ''three years and three
months at hard labor in the state prison
at Saltwater We're delivered, a shudder
went through the whole court room There
seemed to he something awful IN the
words. The prisoner was man who
had placed many others IN the position
which he himself now occupied. He
knew what it all meant There was no
Misunderstanding or Understanding the
degree of the reward for his evil doings,
and the whole audience seemed to see it
n the same light in which he must have
viewed it. Madigan was nervous--ter-
rible uneasy. His every action showed
it.
AS soon as the sentence had been pass
ed, Senator Peck asked that day be
named on which to settle the case and
argue motion for a new trial. The
Judge fixed upon February goth and
until then the prisoner will be at liberty
under $4,000 bonds. Execution If SEN
tence has also been stayed until that
time.
The sentence is considered one that
would be severe under ordinary circum-
stances. The maximum limit is five
years and the minimum one.
The New York Sun editor always
seems to look at things with a keener in
sight, either to facts or humor than most
politicians. On Thursday he raised this
question::
THAT President Cleveland is crazy
has not until lately seemed to many a
true explanation Of many things that
were before attributed to his natural
stubborness, imperiousness of temper,
and ignorance. Even now suggestions
are listened to by persons who have
ventured their own thoughts and know
ledge Of particular reasons, of the history
and growth. Of which not much has been
said in print. A multitude of persons
have recently put the, question among
themselves, is Cleveland crazy? The
question has been asked in no trifing
spirit, and generally not in the manner
and tolm of an assertion, though fre-
quently in a way to imply probability.
not to say belief. This latter form Of
questions has increased in positlveness
as public questions and Cleyeland's ac-
tions have seemed to justify greater pos.
/ itiveness and concern. A resolute firm
mess BY congress, patriotic torbearance
and intelligent appreciation IN its action
will, It is believed, suffice to prevent any
ill-conseq equences which might otherwise
result from having m an executive off his
balance.