The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-22
PATRICK WILL APPEAL
 TO COY. ELECT HUGHES
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 The eight men still left in the death house shouted good bye' to Patrick, as he was conducted from the place. Since his incarceration he had helped a number of the condemned men with le- gal advice, and is well liked by them.
 After he had been taken to the clerks office, Patrick gaveto the warden the following letter addressed to Mrs. Pat rick, and which he said he desired to have made public:
 Yours of yesterday announcing that the governor had commuted my sen tence of death to life Imprisonment is received. It is needless to say that l am bitterly disappointed at the miscar- riage of. my hopes for freedom, but am not discouraged. I shall formally protest for It's moral even though 1t may have no legal, effect, Then l shall comply quietly with the directions of the officers who will on the governors warrant receive me into the penal part of the institution.
 q felt sure that the United States supreme court would eventually declare that my conviction had been secured WlLIIOuL Olly PLOPOI PiOp1s HllAd " NAA fair and dishonest means. I am so tir- ed of delay and so moved by the strain of separation from my loved ones that listened to the suggestion that the governor would use his power of par don to rectify a miscarriage of justice. And so, against the advice of my att torneys, I dismissed my appeal and ap- piled to the governor for a free par don.
 "The governor in committing finds in effect my conviction illegal and proof of guilt insufficient, or, in other words, that am presumably innocent. Doubt of guilt or illegality of conviction have always in the cases of other people been grounds for discharge. For me it is thought proper to impose a. painful de- gradation and humiliating servitude.
 This degradation cannot escape, but I shall bear 1t bravely, buoyed by the belief that I have the sympathy and support of all lovers of justice, and by the expectation of my early release standardization.
 T shall forthwith petition the incom- ing governor to right this wrong, and l believe that his knowledge of the law, keen judgment of facts and love of jus tice and personal courage will enable me to prevail, and that he will soon set me free.
 ''My health is good, except that I am worn out and tire verey easily, but my mind is clear, and I have been and will be guided by my own judgment"
 Warden Johnson said to-day that he had noticed no signs of any mental de- engagement in Patrick. He appeared to him to be perfectly normal The war den has seen Patrick practically every day that the latter has been in the death house. Patrick, he said, was still the same self-reliant, and clear-minded man that had originally been received at the prison. Principal Keeper Con naugEton was of the same opinion and the guards who have done duty at the death house say that Patrick appears anything but clouded in his mind
 These expressions were drawn out by report that Patricks mind had 1e- come unbalanced.
 The following written statement was later given to the warden by Patrick:
 Please take notice that reject the warrant of the governor of the state of New York now in your hands com muting my death sentence to impris- onment for life, and that I refuse to accept or take any benefit under the same and that I protest against the execution thereof, upon the ground that said warrant of the governor, as we'll as the Judgment of conviction upon which 1t is founded, is contrary to law and void'