New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-02
G|EDEL ESCAPES CHAIR
Jury Finds Him Guilty of Murder
in the Second Degree.
PRISONER SEEMS RELIEVED
Whitman Admits Disappointment
Penalty Is Prison, Not
Less than 90 Years"

The seeming paradox of the defendant II
a murder trial being satisfied and the pros
ecuting attorneys being disappointed by
conviction was presented in General ses-
.,ors Yesterday. when Paul Giedel was
found guilty Of murder in the second degree
for killing W. II. Jackson on July 10 lsil
in the Hotel Iroquois. where Giedei nae
been employed formerly as bellooy'
There will he no appeal from the yer
dict" said James a. Gray, OF heieho"n'
counsel. after Judge Grain had rema"oe'
Giedel Until next Tuesday for sentence L
state prison for not less than twenty years
nor more than life. the fixed penalty 'o'
murder in the second degree.
we are entirely satisfied with the YER
dict and consider il a distinct victory III
added. pointing out that five CONCESSIONS u
Giedel had been placed In evidence Ho''
essentially different from the others sho
each containing admissions sufhcient 10 con
s,itute every element OF murder in the hrs'
degree"
Cio6el himself heaved a SIGH OF rehe'
when the verdict was announced MrS
Giedcl his mother. said she was over
1cved." and all were jublant over the lao'
that he has escaped the electric chaT.
while I am glad there was not dlsa-
sreemont." said District Attorney whitman
81 would not be stating the truth II uiu
no, saw the verdict was disappointment
This Office. however did everything 10 pre-
sent the facts. and 10 the jurors belongs u''
responsibility for the verdict rendered.
7 am convinced that the attack OF OledeI
urcn the character Of the man he muroereu
had no effect upon the jury's deliberations
and feel that If he had been few years
older he would be now facing the fulI PEN
atty for his crime"
Tho iurv. which had been locked up al
night. reported the verdict at 10 O'clock
Yesterday morning 1t had been reached SIX
hours earlier.
on the first ballot. it was said seven
Jurors stood for murder in the hrst degree
four for murder i'm the second degree anu
one ballot was blank. The blank ore II
was said. was cast by juror VINO eVi-
denced intense interest In the testimony
during the trial but who could not make
I'D his mind on the degree of the homicide
Of which he was convinced the prisoner was
guilty. He finally lined up with the four
in favor Of second degree, and they stood
thus when. at O'Clock on Thursday night
the iurv came into court for additional III
structions.
At midnight on Thursday. when the jury
vas locked uD by Judge Grain. the vote
was still TO for murder in the first de
gree. Then il changed TO to 6, one of the
first degree jurors going over to the other
side. one by one the jurors shifted. until
90, Har
second degree. The one man who stood ont
for murder in the first degree. II was said
was a Juror who had shown great interest
in the age of Giedel and had been eX-
pected to favor a low degree because OF ms
youth
From the outset, il was reported. the
Jurors cast aside the reflections upon the
character of Mr.. Jackson contained in the
story Of Giedel on the witness stand as be-
iLE a fabrication.
When giving his pedigree to the clerk
Gedel said he was seventeen years and
four months old and a carpenter by trade.
The crime Of which Giedel was convicted
was committed on the night of July e. He
entered the apartment Of W. II. Jackson
in the Hotel Iroquois. intending to commit
robbery When Jackson awoke, Giedel tried
10 use chloroform TO prevent an outcry
He finally choked tho aged broker into un-
consciousness. gashed his face, broke his
jaw. and stuffed washcloth saturated with
chloroform into his mouth. Jackson was
found dead the next morning, and detectives
by means Of the empty chloroform bottle
traced Giedel, who made full confession.
Mrs. Giedel returned last night to hel
home i'm Hartford. Clerks in the office OF
her sons counsel. out of sympathy for her
trouble, pledged themselves to gave her one
half Of their salaries for the molth of Sep.