The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-06
WILL DECIDE
ON FRIDAY
Fate Of Charles I. Tucker In
Gov. Guilds Hands
HEARS THE NEW EVIDENCE
In . Statement Today He Declared That
He Intended to Consider the Ar
gument for Communication
Thoroughly.

Boston, June Ex-Governor Guilds pri-
vate secretary this morning issued the
following statement:
.The governor will not give bis de-
cision with reference to the petition for
the communication Of the sentence Of
Charles L. Tucker today and probably
not until Friday. re is III dnty bound
to take time to read carefully the nu-
merous aflidavits offered hy the counsel
for the defense, and other papers sub
mitted in the ease"
After constituting himself court Of
justice for the day. Governor Guild left
the state house late last night without
officially deciding whether Charles l..
Tucker, convicted in 1905 Of the mur-
der Of Mabel Page, shall be executed
next week or suffer life imprisonment.
From II q. nj. until after p. M. colin-
sci for Tucker atldnced evidence to sup
port the plea for a communication Of
the death sentence. Former Attorney
General Herbert Parker appeared, in OPP
position to communication.
The grounds for clehency urged by
fuckers counsel were based partly on
the alleged unreliabiity Of the evidence
regarding a Canadian stick pin found
on Tucker at tile time OF his arrest
and said TO have belonged to Miss Page;
and on the medical testimony as to
the nature of the wounds. Dir. Francis
a. Harris, one Of the experts. testified
at the trial that a knife like that found
in fuckers possession must have been
used, but later he retracted the tcsti
mony. The defense also relied on the
statments of one or two witnesses who
heard Of tramps going through Con-
necticut relating stories Of trouble with
a woman in Massachusetts,.
The governor had with him the two
justices who sat at The trial as wcl as
the present attorney general, Dana Ma
lone. and Mr.. and Mrs. Tucker, parents
of the condemned young man, as well
as his brother, we're permitted to hear
the testimony. The governor gave the
Tucker family a private interview at
the close OF the afternoon session. be-
sides permitting them 10 remain al day
them with their lunch
The principal witness was DIR. Harris.
and for nearly four hours he was the
target OF botli sides. An affidavit and
several letters were read from him, stat
ing that he made mistake as TO the
nature Of the instrument which caused
Miss Pages wounds, and fiercely ar
raigned some of the governments ties.
timony, notably that of Medical Exam
liner Meade, who performed the autopsy
on the body Of tie victim. He said in
answer to questions by the counsel for
Tucker, that the wounds could not have
been made by fuckers knife, but a few
minutes after he tontradicted the testi-
mony
Several witnesses we're heard and two
alIidavits read tending to snbstantiate
the claim that the Canadian pin belong
ed TO Tucker One witness. after making
q few statements, was discarded as hay
ing only hcarsay testimony.
Two witnesses were heard. who said
that someone told them of hearing sew
eraI tramps in Connecticut relate tus-
sic with woman in Massachusetts. Ah-
other witness found large blood stain
ed glove in a carriage in Weston not
long after the murder
The entire evening was consumed in
arguments by former Attorney General
Herbert b. Parker and JAMES II. Nahey,
the leading counsel for Tucker, and at
the conclusion Governor Guild said that
he would take the case under advise
ment for day OF two.
The execution Is SET ior The week be-
ginning June 10