Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-11-30

and telling who he was Another was
TO his mother telling why he did the
deed. and the third to his wife asking
her forgiveness.
HIS trial came off before Judge Per-
clval Bo1ney in the Cumberland supe-
rlor court. He plead guilty to the
charge OF murder but not to the indict-
ment as read against him. At hear
ing the first degree was decided upon.
When he plead guilty it was with the
understanding between himself and
lawyer that the judge could use his
olscfetlon ABOUT the sentence and the
petitioners claim. that had they known
there was no other course than to give
him a life sentence, he would have
pleaded not guilty to the charge of
murder, but would have had the case
tried fer a verdict of snanslaughter.
Mrs. Lottie Knapp, his mother. was
present and in a straightforward man
ner, told of the story of the boys life,
and of the crime, beside the trial which
seems to be indelibly stamped upon
her mind. Mrs. Knapp is a nice look
ing lady of little past. middle age, and
al times her story was truly pitiful
showing what she had suffered on ac-
count of her erning son.
Howard Owen of this city. q cousin
of Mrs. Napp, testified as to her relia-
biiity. DR.. Chase of Hallowell. also
told of the melancholy condition of Ed
ward Chase during the year preceding
the murder
Augustus s. Brown of Portland, told
of tl1e story Chase gave of the affair.
during the nights Mr. Brown watched
with him.
Mr.. j. e. Ladd, the father of the mur-
dered woman, was present, and he pre-
sented an able argument against the
communication of the sentence which he
said is fully justified.
Mr. Spear made "a powerful argument
in favor of the conmnutation of the SEN
tence, and said that besides being SEN
fenced under circumstances that die
not give him chance to have justice
done him, he thought the man had
served time enough to fill out the full
penalty of the crime and asked that he
might be released for the sake of his
family and his own sake.
The contested election case was the
first one that was taken UP after the
recess for supper. This matter had not
been reported upon by the councillor
committee, which had waited for the
hearing.
This case is the one where Marion F.
Taylor, the Republican nominee, has
209 votes for the office of representa-
tive to the Legislature from the repre-
sentative district Of Bradley and Orono
DaEiel H. Lambert, the Democratic
nominee, had 20S votes. Dan Lambert
has one vote and Daniel Lambert has
one vote.
F. w. Knowlton OF Orono who repre-
sented Lambert had two witnesses who
under oath testified they cast split
ticket, voting the Republican ticket
with the exception of the candidate for
representative to the Legislature.
Ernest Martin, liveryman of Orono,
said he voted for Dan Lambert as he
had always called the man by that
name. He could not remember whether
he wrote the name below or above the
erased name. William Lee, the man
who voted for Daniel Lambert. testi-
fed he wrote the name above the
erased name of the Republican. Both
these young men are intelligent, bright
young men. 1t was shown that there
was no other Lambert in Bradley and
Orono.
c. ]. Dunn, Esq, who appeared for
Mr. Tyler, made a clear and powerful
argument for his client, citing many