The Jersey City news., 1906-01-11
TWO MURDERERS
REPRIEVED
Governor Stokes Grants An
toinette Tclla and Jerry
Rossa Thirty Days Grace
LONG MUST Die TOM0RRON
COURT OF PARDoNs TURNS a
DEAF EAR TO HIS CoUNsERs
PLEA FOR coMMUTATIoN OF
SENTENCE.
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TRENTON, Jan. II, 19O5.-C Charles
Long, who murdered Matthew Cunning
ham and then kept the police of the cities
of the State hunting for him with AUTO
mobiles for week until captured, will
pay the penalty of his crime on the gal-
lows tomorrow morning, according to the
refusal of the Court of Pardons yester-
day to commute his sentence to one Of
life Imprisonment.
Mrs. Antoinette Tolla and Jerry Rossa,
both under sentence of death in the
Hackensack Jail tomorrow, will not die
then, for the Court of Pardons cont;nned
their cases until subsequent meeting Of
the court. and Governor Stokes granted
a reprieve of thirty days
In Longs case Counselor W Holt
Apgar, of this city, made an eloquent
plea. He told the court that there WAS
no premeditation shcwn in the evidence
at the trial, that Long while suffering
from excitement of a quarrel with Cun-
ningham, grabbed up a gun and killed
his man. The counselor said that since
Longs capture he had repeatedly de-
clared that the killing of Cunningham
was the work of a frenzied moment. that
he had no real quarrel with the man, bHt
the pangs of jealousy prompted him to do
the deed from which he shrank. Because
of these things, and from lack of evi-
dence at the trial that the murder was
one of premeditation, Counselor Apgar
declared that the verdict should have been
one Of murder in he second degree, and
therefore he asked the Court of Pardons
to commute Longs sentence to the pen
atty the evidence imposed-life inprison-
ment.
Chancellor Magic was the first man to
speak after the eloquent appeal of Mr..
ApgaF and then he moved that The aRpii~
cation for a communications cf the Long
sentence to life Imprisonment be re-
fused. The court SO decided and this
means that Long will hong tomorrow in
Mercer county Jail. There Is no other
legal move to make but one to the
United States district court, Or the APP
peal to the court of errors and appeals,
the course which it has been said would
not be taken.
1t IS hardly likely that any further
legal moves viii be made and because
the Jail authorities did not want Long to
pass bad night he is in ignorance Of
the awful fate that awaits him to-mor~
row morning, but Father Whelan, his
spiritual adviser. will break the news to
him to-day
For the petition for reprievetfor Mrs.
Tolla appeared Mrs. Mary Quackenboss.
of the New York bar. who is Settle
ment Worker. Counselor Peter Stagg
was a'so before the court and Judge
Thomas S. Henry and Nathan Kusey,
of Newark. were present by request,
not to address the court, but to advise
counsel.
Mrs. QuackenboTs told the court that
Joseph Sonta. the man Mrs. Toils ki,,ei.
was noted in Europe for his attent onS
TO women and she wanted time to send
TO Italy for court evidence proving his
character and thus establish the words
of Mrs. Tolla that She killed him he
car@e he attacked her homer Countess
Frances MeSseligia. wife of the Italial
consul general to this ooaatry. wss
present but said that s1e merely r p=e-
sented heraelf, that her interest in tse
proceedings was that of cDe w0ula for
another, Notwithstanding the Ifae en- Is
between them in social life, Mrs To. Ia
was her couutrywon an.
M'sa Jessie NJ. PARTON. Of C'nesn~
natl paper. came to Tr nton wi h pa +
tions signed by 16SO00 names paying
Governor Stokes not to soil New ] +.
sey's name by allowing a wonaa to
hang. When she presented the netstsoas
they We're quickly pho -ographel en- tlse
court of pardons table and the uepee
who sent the young lady viii use ~
picture on the front page tonorvaw rs
showing what interest it has in the wo-
man.
The repr.eve was granted by Governor
Stokes to allow the fresh evidence to
be brought befe the court of pa d, us.
The repr'eve- of thirty days for r.Ierrya
Rosa, also of Hackensack. was 10 a low
fresh evidence to be brought befare the
pardon court.
An interesting incident of the Court cf
Pardons injecting yesterday was the lib-
GRAFTON Of George VagazeHe-of Gsanaen,
from State Prison on parole The Hlan
was convicted in May, 1905, and sem,
fenced TO one year for seduction. There
were three men convicted for this one
crime and as the Court OF Raassons has
liberated the other two on parole. Cam
den county thought that it would only
be right to liberate Yagaxelle also: rs she
evidence against him was the fiimsiest Of
the three. The Court of Pardons agreed
TO this and liberated the man.
The court will meet again january II
to consider the rules revisions, but not
to have. other hearings on parole, pardon
or communication of sentence.