Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-30
GOOD BEHAVIOR
Will Reduce Sentence of the
 Paterson MuPderers
ONE THIRD OF THEIR TERM.

George Kerr Seems to Be the Most Broken Up of the Group-cHe Feels His Position Keenly, Especially Az It May Be the Cause of His Fathers Death.
 Trenton, N. J., Jan 2O.-The sen. .ences or the Paterson murderers ara ps no means as severe as the public thihks. The time allowed off for good behavior ill the New Jersey state prison works something like com- pound interest Inquiry regarding the lnatter, made at the prison last night. eilclted the information that the fuN tlme of thfrty-year sentence for good behavior is no less than 3.65a lays, or about ten years. Kerr. can oy sood conduct, earn 1.452 days, OF Apout Tour years. The kind of labor Tney Will be required to do will des pend upon their physical condition.
 Kerr, who seems to be the mosx affected of the quartette of Patersors murderers stood with head bent and stopping shoulders while the court was speaking. He seemed to have aged years since yesterday. Thosa who saw him standing in the courts room listening to the words of the judge cannot believe he will live to serve out the term assign. ed to him. When the sentence had been pronounced Kerr sank into his seat Ill a state of almost collapse.
 The prisoners were then led back t0 the jail. Friends awaited them. but they seemed to want to be alone. Later they sent out the following statement, which all of them signed:
 we are resigned to our fate, and propose to face the future, dark as it Is, with brave hearts. We have felt heretofore that it was useless to say. anything to relieve our situation, ass the storm of public indignation waa such that anything said by us would have been misinterpreted. We could say many things that would tend to abate the public indignation, but we purpose to bear our punishment in silence. We purpose to earn th.. days q month which the law remitS for good behavior in state prison, and we hope and pray the community will suspend final judgment until bF good conduct and proper lives We will earn their commendation We are dontent to suffer ourselves, but we feeE keen- ly the awful sorrow brought up4n our families and friends who have stood so nobly by us through it all. Never at any time was there any ill-fSeeling between ourselves, and we neve had occasion to say things about leach other in an effort to secure indivI Idual advantages. We feel that we
 been victims to q great extent i1
 unreasoning outside opinion. VI
 was based upon the wild and ini matory reports printed in the m, politan papers to satisfy a me taste. We are thankful to the cou in our cases-Francis Scott, Mic Dunn. John W. Harding, John Kerr and Judge Hofrman-who m every sacrifice at the peril of t regulations, and even of their Ii and stood nobly by us."
 When Justice Dixon was sentenc the prisoners Hugh Kerr. the fat of George. lay dying within ston throw of the court house. George not know till last night that his fatf was so i'll.
 AS soon as the prisoners were moved Deputy County Clerk Berg proceeded to fill out the blank forn of commitment to state prison. Tho were submitted to Justice Dixon an after being signed by him were turne over to Sheriff Sturr, in whose charg the prisoners now are. It is quit probable that the four men will b( taken to Trenton on Thursday or Fri day to enter upon their terms of i'm priSonment