The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-09
ADDRESS OF JUDGE
Delivered Before Passing Sentence
Of Death Upon Young AieIIo.
Touching Remarks by Judge Reed on the Youth
Of the Prisoner, His Wrong Conception
Of ofFreedom and Necessity Of Death.

Pollone Monday forenoon OF last week,
Judge John w. Reed, of Brookville,
addressed young Aiello as follows
"Your limited knowledge OF the
English language may not enable you TO
understand or comprehend the mean
ing OF what am about to say, but the
interpreter present will, in a general
way, inform you after you have been
returned to the jail. 1t Is not important,
however, that you should understand
inasmuch as nothing l may now say can
be OF any help or advantage to you.
But l deem 1t important that / should
take this occasion to say that your most
unfortunate and deplorable situation
should serve as a solemn warning not
only to your fellow-countrymen but to
every Individual who is disposed to give
free play to his passions and to allow
an evil disposition to dominate his life.
All such should be admonished by 1t to
constantly exercise control over them
selves and to honestly endeavor to live
at peace and to dwell in harmony with
their fellow man. The passion or the
wickedness OF the heart which prompts
a man to take life is not a mere transient
thing, as some may suppose, which for
the moment overwhelms him and sud-
denly impels him to the deed. 1t is a
growth, and the man who would be free
from 1t must not cultivate IT, The
| man who u aims himself In the way OF
living peaceable and law abiding life
will not likely become murderer, but II
he glories in his manifestations of an
evil disposition he may expect sooner or
later to reap its fruit 1t is Infinitely
better that he should displace such
disposition, II he has 1t, by cultivating
disposition to live at peace with man
kind.
1t Is sad, indeed, that one so young,
standing as you are at the very thresh.
old of life, should be required to suffer
death. You have been brought to this
by mistaken view OF life and the dis
regard OF social duty: by allowing your
life to flow in forbidden channels. II
Is frequently said that this is free
country, and so it Is. But the freedom
which it guarantees to every individual
Is the freedom to pursue his own true
and substantial happiness by living
honestly, hurting nobody, and render
ing to every man his due. II you had
conformed your life to these fundamen-
tai principles OF government you might
have lived in this country your allotted
years without being molested or inter-
fered with by any one. You might
have enjoyed the benefits of its free in
stitutions, and all the opportunities
which it affords for living a joyous,
happy and comfortable life. But you
had scarcely set your feet upon its
shores until you were plotting murder,
or at least until you gave vent to a
murderous disposition which you seemed
to wear as badge of honor rather than
as trait OF character that is an offense
before God and man. Long before God
gave to Moses In concrete form, amidst
the thunders and terrors of SIM, the
command-thou shalt not kill-He
had proclaimed his condemnation of the
crime. When the first murder on earth
was committed God said to Cain, by
reason thereof, that he should be
fugitive and vaga5ond on the earth.
Later He said " Whose sheddeth mans
blood by man shall his blood be shed
and still later when the cities OF refuge
were established to which man who
slew another might flee for safety and
stand before the congregation for
judgment, 1t was provided that II he
slew him with weapon OF any kind or
by lying in wait, or in other words II it
appeared that he unlawfully killed him,
with malice aforethought, he should be
put to death. You will therefore OBJ
serve that the law which now demands
your life is not OF human origin, and let
me say TO you IT is more merciful than
you were when you took the life OF your
unfortunate victim. Frank Carfa's life
was just as dear and sweet to him as
your life is to you, He had substantially
as much OF it before him as you have.
He had as much to live for and as many
friends to part from, and as many hearts
were saddened by his death, perhaps, as
will be made sorrowful by your death.
But in this the facts are only partially
stated. You slew him without a mo-
ment's warning. In the midst of life you
struck him down; you ushered his soul
into eternity without giving him even
so much as a moment of time in which
to offer up prayer to his God. You
did twilfully; you did 1t deliberately and
OF your malice aforethought, and the
law which demands your earthly life in
return is not only Just but II is more