The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-30
foreman said Guilty he was just a. Yin

foreman said Guilty he was just a. Yin
concerned.
Il have had two or thres prisoners who
read from the time their cases went TO tfe
fury. Love stories and such rot seemed
10 interest them more than whether they
were going to got out. Others pace up and
down the pen. Some throw themselves
down 10 corner and won't talk to any one.
Then there u the talkative kind. They're
nuisancos sometimes- They want 70 tAlK
about their particular case and always see
you to say you believe they arc innocent.
You can't tell Q man that you. believe he 10
guilty.
"During trial q prisoner often takas
strong fancies or dislakes.
sAJudge's charge frequently has strange
effect on the prisoner. I know OF one case
where q prisoner made up his mind that the
Judge was bitterly against him. although
everybody in the court room at the time
thought that the Judge had gone out OF his
way to make point for the prisoner. The
prisoner himself couldn't sec It that way
at all. The jury promptly acquitted him.
/ Jaw him later-he was not prisoner
then-and he still held that tho Judge had
been against him and that the charge had
nothing to do with the verdict
What effect has q lo1g trial on pris-
oner7" some one asked Kelly.
Naturally, it's pretty tough on the pris-
oner. Take the last important case We
had, the Nan Patterson case. In the judg-
ment Of those who watched her during the
trial there were only two or three occasions
when she showed my emotion worth speak
ing OF. Yet at each trial she collapsed while
the jury was out. After the first trial she
had to be carried back to the Tombs, and st
the second trial she was carried to the court
room unconscious and never heard the fore-9
man say that the jury couldn't agree. That
was all due to the tension she was under
while the jury was out.
Albert T. Patrick. whose conviction for
the murder OF William Marsh Rice has
been affirmed by the Court Of Appeals, wes
very laxative. He talked and talked all
the time, and only about his own case.
On the way to Sing Sing he ran on In the
same line
al Adams went under completely during
the time the jury made up their minds to
convict him. He was simply q wreck. and
never expected to see him como out Of
Sing Sing alive After his conviction, you
know, he wasn't taken back to tho Tombs,
but was kept at the Waldorf Astoria on
Supreme Court order. understand that
he came out OF Sing Sing In pretty good
physical condition. but anybody who saw
him az did when the jury was considering
his case would never have believed 1t.
4The nerviest chap ever had anything
to do with was Sam Parks, who died In Sing
Sing. Sam talked loud and impressed you
as being something Of a buffer, but he had
more pure nerve than any one have run
up against in my time. He swore that he
would get. even II he was convicted and
that his enemies had better watch out.
He never showed the slightest fear while
waiting to hear the verdict.
Diamond Phil Weinseimer was en-
tirely different from Parks. Weinseimer
was quiet and reserved and kept to himself.
He took the wait for the jury calmly enough,
but when he heard the verdict it was with
something Of shock.
Roland B. Molineux was very cool So
were Carl le Harris andDr Buchanan who
were convicted and later eleotrocuted. Mrs.
Fleming was downhearted and spiritless
when alone, but when she had any one TO
talk to she was quite cheerful
Kelly has taken many prisoners to Sing
Sing after their conviction.
when they realize that they are up
against II aud that there ia no use in making
. fight said Kelly, some Of them make
the best Of 1t. They 60 into prison with
earn communication for good behavior.
Strange to say. there are few OF them
who will admit after conviction. even in
confidence, that they are guilty Every one
Of them has been abused railroaded, picked
up by mistake or victim Of circumstances.