New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
GLYNN ASKED TO IGNORE
COURTS TO SAVE 4 GUNNER

petition.
mo man comes 10 you and asks for
clemency. save after the courts Of last
resort have had their last say. Men
who are acquitted OF crime do not ask
for your executive clemency In their
behalf; convicted men whom the Court
of Appeals has awarded a new trial do
not ask the Intervention Of the Gov
ernor.
Executive clemency is asked only. and
properly only, when We are through with
the courts When the courts are fin
ished and the fiat OF human law has gone
FORTH then man stands in his nalSedness
and humility before the mercy seat Of
human creation and begs.
Therefore these petitioners come to
you, not asking you TO reverse the Court
OF Appeals or 10 set aside the verdict or
the Jury, not asking you to grant them
mercy because OF what the Court OF APP
peals said or did not say or because OF
what the Jury found or did not find, but
they stand convicted, with conviction up
held by the court, proclaiming even in
this hour their innocence, but asking
from you not freedom, not communication
of sentence but merely that they be per
mitted to remain alive IN the living death
of their present abiding place until every
probable opportunity for their rehabilita-
ton may have been exhausted.
"Of what avail. therefore, is your ar
g1lment or your conclusion. based upon
the opinion OF Justice Chase in the case
OF these defendants or OF the opinion
of Justice Miler7 VIII they appease
your conscience II. at the Becker trial.
It be determined by n fury that Weber
and Vallon, and not these defendants,
fired the shots that killed Rosenthal!
VIII that opinion give life back to these
defendants II your present mandate con-
tinues virile until sunrise on Easter
Monday.
You are your own Court Of Appeals
You must decide for yourself, and from
your own judgment there is no appeal,
save to God"
Jurymen's Attitude Cited.
The appeal pointed out that ten Of the
Jurors who tried the gunner Joined In
the appeal for reprieve, and that the
Court of Appeals in reafiirming the YER
dict specifically said that, because
question Of credbility OF two sets OF
witnesses-the informers, Rose, Vallon'
Weber and Schepps. and the eyewit-
nesses-had been presented TO the jury
they would not take unto themselves the
duties of turymen. but must let the YER
dict OF the jurymen stand.
cad determination 10
refuse the petitioners prayer for re-
prieve in part upon the action OF the
Court Of Appeals" the statement con-
tlnues. "You build upon the Court OF
Appeals The Court Of Appeals builds
upon the jury. Ten OF the men who COM
posed that jury have appealed to you for
a reprieve. Remember, please, that these
are the men upon whose judgement the
Court OF Appeals based its refusal to set
aside this verdict; these are the men
upon whom IN the last resort, you rely
for your refusal to grant these men re-
prleve. Their conscience appeals TO your
conscience.
What right have you to set your
judgement against theirs? Are they ask
ing too much OF you to just let these men
live a living death until after the Becker
trial is over? Do not let sophistry stand
in the way Of the performance Of your
duties In this matter.
'These jurymen know what they did.
They convicted these men because they
believed Rose; they convicted them be-
cause they believed they were the i'm
elements OF Becker; and nobody will ever
convince them at least that there is any
great distinction between the Becker case
and the case of the men whom they con-
yicted OF being the accomplices Of Charles
Becker"