The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-01
his MOTHER he DID IT
GETDEL, QUIET IN COURT. GOES
TO PIECES WHEN he SEES HER.
The Boys Lawyer wants Time to Prepare
His Case and Hints at Insanity DE.
fence-Pieading Put on 10 To-day
sister and Aunt Go to the TOmbs Too.

fence-Pieading Put on to To-day
sister and Aunt Go to the Tombs Too.
Paul Geidel, the seventeen-year- old boy
who is under indictment for the murder
OF William H. jackson in the Hotel Iro-
ouoie, met two ordeals yesterday. In the
morning he was arraigned before Judge
Grain in General Sessions. In the after
noon his mother saw him in the Tombs.
He passed the first without losing his
nerve The second wae too much for him.
Geidel had braced himself for the ap-
pearance in court. He came in smiling
and all through the proceedings was most
composed. James A. Gray Of the firm OF
Cleary. Averill h Short. appeared a.
counsel for the boy. At his request Judge
Grain postponed the pleading until to-
day. Mr.. Gray said that he wanted time
to look over the indictment and to consult
with his client and the boys mother. who
was to como later.
James c. Cleary and Mr.. Gray. counsel
for Geidel. said that they would be busy
all day and most OF the night going over
the facts in the case and were not able
to say as vet what line the defence would
take.
From what ! have learned Of this
young fellows history" said Mr.. Cleary.
.it is unbelievable that he would commit
any such act when he was in his right
mind. 1t may he that we shall ask for
a commission to pass on his sanity
Mr.. Gray said that there was dispo-
eition in the community toward legal
lynching- in Geidel's case.
We don't put too much confidence in
the confession wrung from young boy
who was terrified by police threats. said
Mr.. Gray. There are 40 cases in the
Tombe noT waiting trial There ia no
reason Why this case should be rushed
ahead Of them. We may not be able to
Get our case into shape for two or three
month";"
District Attorney Whitman said that
his assistant, Charles c. Mott. would take
charge OF the case and that he hoped that
the defence would be ready to go to trial
NV the latter part Of August or the early
part OF September.
II was in the counsel room at the
Tombs that Paul saw his mother. She
came with his sister Agnes. his aunt. Mrs.
Mary Geiger; Mr.. Cleary, Mr.. Gray and a
stenographer from their office. William
]. Wright, Deputy Commissioner OF Cor
rectione, was in the building when they
arrived and went up to the counsel room
with them.
Geidel had spent most of the day since
his srraignment sitting in remote corner
of his cell CRYING. His eyes were red
and swollen when he came to meet his
mother. though he tried to smile. His
sister, Agnes. tried to get to him first,
but Mrs. Geidel was ahead of her. Mrs.
Geidel fung her arms about her boys
neck. -.
didn't! Tell me you didn't"
Paul's shoulders were shaking under
his mothers arms.
Il did IT," he gAsped.
Mrs. Geidel fell on the floor In a dead
faint. Charles Hart. the prison pharma..
cist. helped Commissioner Wright and
senses. When she was more composed
she went back and spent three.quarters
Of an hour consulting with Paul and his
Mrs. Geidel said that Paul had always
been a good boy to her, She said that
that he was smoking. cigarettes, She
asked him to stop and he did. Later,
she said. he tried cigars, but found that
they made him sick and gave up smok
ing altogether She was very sure that
he never read dime novels. though he
did like to 20 to a moving picture show
now and then. Once he told her that
the boys In a poolroom where he went
used such bad language that he had de-
cided not to go there any more, He
was a good student when he was at school,
she said and for a while he sang in the
choir Of Trinity Church in Hartford.
He came to New York. she said, to earn
enough money 30 that he could pay her
expenses here and start her as landlady
In q rooming house,
Wallace B. Scott. formerly a member
OF the law firm which is defending Geidel,
was counsel for the defence in the case
OF Albert Wolter. who is now under sem
tsnce OF death for killing Ruth Wheeler.
The Grand Jury will take up the case
Of Patrick +. McGrane, Geidel's room
mate, within a few days, The District
Attorney is still tracing his past history.
He will probably be indicted Tor receiving
stolen property. He admitted that he
had pawned Mr.. Jackson's watch for
Geidel and that he knew then that it had
been stolen and that it's former owner
had probably been killed by Geidel. He
said that he only got N for his work in