The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-08-28
Jurymen Who Convict ard
Then Plead for Mercy

In the shadow IF the ganows Addph Weber, who was convicted OF fo
murder, is fighting for his life. Governor Pardee is be@t with pleas and petitions
fr clemency. Ii addition to prominent citizens vino know nothing about the
case,b but III sign at the request of a lawyer who might happen to be a friend
o. thens,a number 0. the jmymen have signed the request that the sentence be
commuted.
1t has con to be a sort of fad for the men who convict al offender to sign
a petition for clemency. At the beginning of things they are summoned as Jr
rorsa md they are sworn to do their duty. The trial proceeds. Evidence for the
fear. Nothing is left undone etc create in the minds of the jurymen that the man
sitting there at he lar OF justice is wrong funy accused and that he should go
prosecution shp by step, link ty link, the work geson m At last the evidence
is all in, and in tones of unusually solemn-cspecany when a man 5 life is at
stake-the judge delivers his instructions, charging them again to do their duty
20 themselves ant to the state, pointing put to then any error In which, 1t IS pos
sibe thatt they might fall In the secrecy of the jury room those twelve men de-
hberate They review again the violence of the defense and the prosecution. At
las. they ballot They resume their seats in the court room, and the air is charg
which they haze arrived. The verdict is Guilty. The prisoner must hang.
Months pass and tie time ONES near wis n the sound of the building Of the
ganows is 10 be heard in the prison yard. The jurymen who decided that it was
best that the prisoner should die in expiration Of his Grim and to derer others
who might have some flaw in them which would impel them to murder, we're not
ehc dreadful NeMr of a form swayrg from the scafod before them have been
attending 10 thor lay work, and have tried to forget as Tar as possible that
INC lay It eeol ed Upon them to vote a mans life away
About this time the pleas and p ttors for clemency begin to TN: their way
to the governor The jmymen are approached, INC with a desire 10 be neriful.
anil without The Keen knowledge If the Grim which they had whent the battle in
the court DON had just been finished sign the petitions. No new evidence has
been discovered. This man is no less guilty than he was on that other day when
the verdict that he must hang was returned But the efacing influence Of time
has been at work, and the men who made that verdict ask now for mercy
1t somewhat of a farce, a tragic farce indeed. Why did they originally
return the verdict which made the poor wretch sitting there suddenly feel his
heart stop beating Was it for fnP Was it just to scare him, to make him keep
the long vigil with the spectre of his W swaymg bodya Or did they believe
that because If his ofensea against society he had n right longer to liver
Probably the jmymen themselves know. To the rest of the world it is
something ii a puzze-Gazete.
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