The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-08

Very respectfully your obedient SER
wants,
Edgar ]. Sherman.
Henry N. Sheldon,
Boston, June 6, 1906
"This important report commands Sc
rious consideration.
The attempt at the hearing before
me to offer literary parody as EVIL
dence against the law officers of the
commonwealth but emphasizes their
faithful, fair and intelligent services.
No medical authority who actually
himself saw the wounds on the body of
Mabel Page, has ever wavered in his
statement that they might have been
made By a knife Of the exact meas
urements of that which Tucker had
tried to destroy, but which was found
in fragments before he had time to
dispose of them, in the side pocket Of
his coat, in company with stick pin,
sworn to have belonged to the victim.
Men do not habitually carry stick pins
loose in the side pockets of their coats.
II this were one of the various pins
that really did belong to Tucker, it Is
extraordinary that 1t should have been
found in such an unusual place in COM
pany with fragments of knife which
he confessed he was trying to destroy,
because they might be used to incrim-
mate him.
why, regardless of the ownership,
was he trying to hide that pin?
Every decision handed down by ev-
cry judicial authority to whom disput-
ed questions of law have been referred
has affirmed the correctness Of the rul-
ings in this case. Not only did every
member of that jury, to whom the or
iginal evidence, ungarbled and undis-
torted, was presented find the prisoner
guilty but the judge who pronounced
sentence upon him, after every posi-
BILE appeal to the judiciary had been
exhausted declared the verdict of muir
der In the first degree proper, lawful
and just He even added
1t is hard to imagine a more wan
ton, wicked and causeless murder than
this of virtuous and blameless wom-
an I"
After referring to the sorrow brought
upon fuckers relatives, Governor
Guild continued:
Il must remember that other home;
a pure and lovely girl murdered in a
lonely home; father martyred by sen
sationalism; a devoted sister driven to
the verge Of nervous prostration, and a
faithful working girl prosecuted by
threats Of bodily harm.
Proof of the miserable habit of life
of this unhappy young man, as disclos-
ed by incidents in connection with his
trial, Is confirmed by my own independ-
emit investigation.
THE evidence in the lower court, lat
er confirmed by expert medical evil
dence, furnishes uncontested proof that
the prisoner was not accustomed to
recognize even the bounds established
by nature in the qualification of his
passions.
I'm common with every other respon-
sible person in this case, sworn to in
accordance with his convictions, 1 am
compelled to an undoubting belief in his
guilt.
Neither, therefore, on the ground
urged that the verdict was unwarrant-
ed by the evidence, nor on the grounds
usually urged, can intercede with the
execution Of this just sentence"
James H. Valley. senior counsel for
Tucker, when informed of the govern
or's decision tonight, said:
I'm view of the fact that the gov
ernor's decision has been received so
late, and there is SO little opportunity
to examine it with care, we prefer to
say nothing whatever about it until we
have given it the thought that such an
important document requires and its
contents have been communicated to
the prisoner. We will see him early in
the morning and acquaint him with its
contents"