The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-22

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 the morning of ssptsbsT abs hlssd shi,fssq t Ne. " oositiveiy fascinated, when nc on the morning oi September fourteenth the paper: came out with full list of the names of the murderers. The names ot sonductor chauffeur. English visitor. hotel clerk | theatrical manager policeman, an Italian. imam ses panufaetussr German h.. heaa-wal.sr Ns r.r anq .iM understand the thrill produced all over the city the sus9e.dss Of such = n.ms. .: wt;ts these Au.p
 rsyios. Murray H. Gardiner, Theodore Richardson, Richard ogdes-Dodsa L Oliver Town.snd E. D. Soc,ssae. Hsas.: % sS~.s neKess. x '' ~ '''
 Whv had s:eA raeh youas :aen committed murder ~ k: a:d ess goang nsa were not only rich. but their mere names eS .se .hsuld have committed such brutal crimes vss senss6snai riddle for which every extra" of- ssrsd hoariy solntionsL mssn editions ions. d;..,;
 Iifts, and. naturally. man of many enemis. Hoy If courage and energy and tho people loved him for the pcrtinaeious force and rresistibity with which
 ad .e os ew @ him for lis friend No sooner had he heard of the murders than he hurried-with relay: of automobiles-to the various spots which they had been committed He spirsey against the People He had, of course been N .nd ~Rs he had d.po.d ali the time possible uueharried man. notoriousy enthusiastic to do the
 in sesen aft.1 as ona debera tion, to indict the twelve gentlemen atoTe- said for conspiracy to murder: This decision srsneial intuition by no means unwecome to resi- dents of New York, state-as no one needs to be though d ion 1 .raa 3ad a eTna: it never invited into its boundaries Who needs to rL- <o for Theref fore cost of prosecuting not one but twelve murderers. and these murderers twelve men with unlimited bank accounts wherewith to appeall
 However these murderers were gentlemen and gentlemen do not do murder without some good sSy o aSad sGod ss ssfe of mind into which the public thrown by these conflicting opinions; aiso the of Broadway further excited by sly-signs bearing the letters s. s. A. N Was it Surely. it looked so- And yet. there were circum- pointed different though necessarily engmatic moral Why, for example, should twelve rich men take the trouble to nurdsr with d their own a hands, dered say the east end of Fourteenth Street for little more than. we'll twenty-five dollars apiece7
 At all events, the trial scheduled for Novem ber In the interval, the public ferment, like rs- ing tide, almost amounted to suspension of public
 And euriousty, it the papers that professed to least for wealth and arstocracy that were u eo PeTa afsr a they tnew their public; perhaps they even knew their business. The discerning reader could, however, hardly avoid noticing how little photographic attention was paid in these papers to the victsns-thex town-houses. their wives and families. And somehow other. the public to which they catered did not much to mind that There seemed, indeed, very general in terest in the personalities possessions of the mur- dered; whereas that class from which the majority of victims had been selected stood day after day. in dense throngs, looking Up, with wistfu curiosity. at the Bridge of Signs though the trial still far oH. Were there not Twelve American Gentlemen somewhere inside that somber building
 - Thus. the morning of November third dawned. I~~e with a laborous description of the outside the Tombs, outside Courtroom No. 3 the n1orn- ing of November third Such scenes have been so vividly described by the of genius who write for the American newspapers that America knows them by heart Multiply one of the most dramatic accounts of such scenes by twelve and will get idea
 The entrance of the prisoners into court, humby guarded by various officers of the law created snaakaby M ong hesy werl-groomed young men, with cold eyes and fash, of al in s they had gone to the college or the same tailor. fought in the regiment.
 There of the prisoners that was not, in sense, public figure, and easily recognized by the fortunate occupants of the courtroom. Apart from wealth and position. each in the slang of the
 moment va. known as sportsman or society man There was Dudley, Mills, whose well-known hobby was to drive four-n-hand from New York to Rverview, carrying any passengers that offered an ordinary stage-coach fare, and birding himself on schedule timel There was young Oliver Townsend; There Chester Montague perhaps the best boxer in the world. O. the stories everyone knew of Chester Montague, with his nmbe fists, and his good heartand looking as if he couldn't say pie and though he had never seen pair of gloves in his Efei There was young Ogden-Dodge, the Yale fu-back about whom all the New York girls % crazy that the New Haven road had to put twelve special trains hold them at the last great match between the Blue and Crimson. There young Robert Coleman Whitney who his way to a polo match had had three of his ribs broken in sn automobile accident and yet had got into his tnes and played and won for his side all the same Jean de Forest, tall and schoarlylooking, had terous reputation for his galanry and his skill ihe violin. There also whispered legend of ks. haxins fenaat asAi -it. e--N-d. --- e-----'-