New-York tribune., 1899-03-16
MRS. PLACE MUST DIE.
GOVERNOR REFUSES TO COMMUTE HEf
SENTENCE.
porroRs SAY SHE WAS AND IS SANE. AND THE
GOVERNOR CAN FIND no GROUND foH
GRANTING MERCY TO HER.

DOCTORS SAY SHE WAS AND is SANE AM iiiS
GOVERNOR CAN FIND no GROUND FOR
GRANTING MERCY TO HER.
Abanv March Is governor Roosevelt has re-
fused 70 commute the sentence Of Mrs. Marina
Place, and she will be executed some day neN'
week at Sing Sing Prison. The Governor saiu ns
had arrived at the decision after comHuhiCa''e
with the Dlstrict-Attorney OF Kings county. WIZ
prosecuted the trial, the Judge who presided at
the trial various persons who had observed ."0
trial Chief Judge Parker Of the Court or Ap-
peals and Judge Martin Of that court who wrote
the opinion on which the judgment OF coh'
was confirmed When the Governor MADE hho"n
his decision he issued the following memoranou,"
This is an application made on behalt OF MAI Mt ea
Place now in confinement in sins sing ItIsIor ItIsp,.
under sentence Of death for the crime Oh , n,.
KINGS on FEBRUARY Z 1895 The case was trleq IN
the County Court Of Kings ana Juusned u9sefsndant was
sentenced 10 the punishment OF deatn III III W
manner and place prescribed BY iaw IUm , t',d ~
&nneals and the unanimous decision OF that toutt,
Judge Martin writing the opinion was 'hd' 'i''
No more painful case can come before Coy 10Y
ernor than an appeal to arrest ne nj,ai nun
tice in order TO save woman from Vap,' h claarv
ishment when that woman's gult mas oeel ' ,,aaas
established. and when there are no ere any
whatever 10 mitigate the crime h hl,le were sny
reasonable doubt Of the guilt II mere YER conrse 1m
~ iustice in this case I should so interfere Bui
there Is no ground for interference Inc a. grsi
degree after full and fair trial. although as an an
men know a Jury in such case Is always re- re-
uCtah. tion whatsoever exists for Withholding L
This verdict then reviewed at greaat@ @ Ihert h9I,
bv the Court Of Appeals, and was affirmed wtnous
a dissenting voice though this court a'Wags
scrutniZes with the most jealous care suCh t,I Ia
Siyen 70 the accused I wrote to the Distrct-At-
torney and to the Judge VINO Hleu tme . 80 Orre,nJ
for nxScntve cemency They both answered that
there was none wha ever, and tnat me case de %Se
oftra
running as follows -, .r,o,o -
'rhe record before you VIII snow cIil1e teo ~ ~
on William Place having murder for rs H, 0pJeet
that both crimes we're nnS @u the verdict
US omlnontly lust; think the application en-
trely without meTI5 ,bt senaencS apq emo" u
vent Carefully over the evidence which showed
that The accused had first blinded her stepdaugh.
@ tl@' itb TX acd and thon stranged her and, after
waiting in the house all day when her husIdla
Her attorneys and her pastor appealed 10 10 me- mT
mil but Claimed that she was insane; me al,
forneys asserted that she was insane az ne ,be
cIercvnon stated that she was undouDteuly sane :
at present. but that he believed ner nheb 40 " he did
whom the deed was committed arnVhhshh ,,h her ne "'
not then personally IN cohtac WI tb highest
standing upon whose professional capacte n I'm
nonsense and dep conscient0usness couu H. ~. M
pllcy rely and directed them TO or had been in
80 They reported to me that she was noI In IN
sane; that she was sane at the time o. U"' ""
der and before and since 1000, 49, ,,,i,t a n I
There is thus no question Of the woman guiC ~ a. ~
ro Guestlon of her sanity. All that IeniaaainI ~ ,r
attion a. 10 whether should be JustIlled IN M NJ
Hferfertne TO save murdeross on the GROUND INC %, ol
her sex when no justification wouiT h onlv case
of cae9 punishment which has occurred rder snSe
The beginning Of my term was ii ior WI t5on made
ana az me- on behalf Of the man who had killed ms
wife after became convinced that tI III tbat case a
- tbo decd and sane. IN tndt 80, 80 , :, -
Woman was killed by a man; in this case Wosr-, o
was killed by another woman; no "o '"'
iiettuction of sex in such CRIME. ,,,,o.o.o, and
d murder one Of PefSSar Sa aoaTse Of the law
aIoc AZ SiS oeo coud be Justified only on tne BtOuu
that herSafer6 gm9eF be 'Rf mfcted upon
@ even though the victim was ne.
ronan r.u and even though that victlms 'o'''''
prtre H. but one course open to me- decla'e ~
,r,drfere with the course of the law