The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-04
LAMBERT KlGPisIEyED.
Tho Alleged Murderer gets n Lease of Life
While Preparing for tho scanoid-A Re.
mnrkablc Case.

Tho Alleged Murderer gets n Lease Of Life
White Preparing for tho scanoid-A Re.
mnrkablc Case.
CAMDEN, N. j., Jan. "a half hour
before the time set for the execution Of
Theodore Lambert In the county Jail
this morning, stay OF proceedings
granted by Judge shiras. in Washing.
ton, until March was served on Sheriff
Barrett. At that time score OF wit.
nesses had assembled In the execution
room. Notice Of tho stay was given
Lambert by his counsel, Lawyer Sem
pie. The condemned man fell to the
floor In faint from which he recovered
in few minutes by the use OF stimu.
liant. He fell into q second faint in
which he remained for nearly five min
utes. On being revived he shouted,
GLORY to God" and then fell on the
neck OF his counsel, kissing him.
Lambert's mind has been temporarily
turned by his good fortune. Since
learning that he has two months moro
to live ne has not b5su s5is . .: = 80
telligently. He shouts and sings by
turns. County Physician Jones has him
under treatment.
After leaving the jail Lawyer Seinple
went TO Lamber,'s home, where his
mother was awaiting the news OF her
sons execution. The lawyer previously
promised to come TO her mmediately
alter it mad taken place. When he
entered she cried. SIS he dead YETI l
thought he would not be hanged until
10 o'clock"
When told OF the stay she fell like
log on the floor. A physician had to
be called to restore her to conscious.
mesa. She went at once to the Jail with
the lawyer and the mother and son
were permitted to have their meeting
alone. The scone was affecting. Mrs.
Lambert refused to leave the cell OF her
son and she was allowed to remain
with him.
Lawyer Semple's efforts to sayo his
clients life have been extraordinary.
He claims that Lambert is legally dead.
The date first set for his execution was
December 81. Lawyer Semple asked
for reprieve. which the governor at
first refused on the ground that he had
no power in the, case, as the thirty days
lim:. from the time OF his conviction
had expired. Lawyer Semple claimed
that conviction dated from the time OF
sentence and not from the time OF the
rendering OF the verdict, in which case
the sentence was only twenty days.
The matter was referred to the attorney
general and he took the same view OF
the case as held by Semple. The re-
priere was then granted. After Decem-
Der 1S. the day on which Lambert was
to be executed had passed, Lawyer Sem.
pie took the opposite ground that con-
viction did not date from the sentence.
but from the time Of the rendering Of
the verdict As the day set for the e1.
ecution had passed Lambert was legally
dead.
He exhausted every means provided,
in New Jersey to save his client on q
technicality fortnight ago and then
appealed to the federal courts, raising
the same point which had been dis
missed in the New Jersey courts. He
went before Judge Dallas in philadel.
phia yesterday, but was refused the ap.
plication for writ. He next went to
Washington und called on Justice
Shiras. OF the supreme court, and WAS
referred back to Judge Dallas. He re-
manned in Washington, however, and
shortly before u o'clock succeeded in
having the stay granted. He took a
midnight train and reached hero early
this morning, but did not servo the
writ on tho sheriff until $3.50 o'clock
this morning.