The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-23

TO ask Cne questions required Dy law.
The roll was called and each individual
juror was asked if guilty was his ver-
dict, too.
Becker stood motionless while these
questions were being put to the jurors.
Immediately upon their conclusion the
clerk began to take Becker's pedigree"
To the first questions Becker answered
in a steady voice that he was 43 years
old, was born in the United States and
that his parents had been born in Ger
many.
"Married?. queried the clerk.
Becker did not answer Immediately.
Almost in whisper he replied, ''Yes."
As to his occupation, Becker said he
was former police officer in the city
of New York." Catholic and of tenn
perate habits.
Asked whether he had ever been con-
victed before, Becker looked helplessly
at his counsel. Martin T. Manton, who
was standing beside him. Manton mum
bled something. The pair shook hands.
'fWhat's the answer" again asked the
clerk.
Becker remained silent. Manton, how
ever, answered for him, "No."
Justice Seabury thanked each man of
the jury for his services and they left
the room.
Manton, told by the court he would be
granted reasonable time in which to
make any motions he deemed advisable,
asked for one week and received it.
"Charles Becker, you are remanded to
the Tombs prison until May 90" the
court announced.
-lo1o hn
Becker was pronounced guilty until a
recess was declared occupied scarcely
four minutes.
In the meantime, jackson and John
Becker. standing at the door to the court
room. had heard the verdict. Jackson
sank into court attendants chair and
buried his face in his hands. Mrs. Beck
er's brother. John Lynch, and John Beck
er, both of them showing their grief,
hurried to the room where Becker's wife
was waiting.
Everybody in the building and even
the crowd in the street outside knew
that Becker had been found guilty.
A bailiff had shouted the news across
the rotunda of the court house. But
Mrs. Becker, sitting behind closed doors,
did not know it until John Becker en-
tered the room.
He did not say a word to her then.
He did not have to. His face showed
what had happened His shoulders were
bent and shaking, his checks were wet.
Becker Returns to Wife.
Lynch begged his sister to be calm.
but that did no good. She collapsed
and was still sobbing when
her husband was led into the room. She
threw her arms around his neck and
buried her face on his shoulder,
"Oh," she cried, Charlie, I'm so sorry,
so sorry. Poor Charlie. / didn't expect
it,"
She could say no more. She released
her husband from her embrace and
dropped into chair.
Becker stood looking down at her as
she wept.
Handouts were then locked about his
wrist; he was taken from the room and
around the marble corridors to the other
side of the building, across the Bridge Of
Sighs and into the Tombs. On his way
around the corridor friends who had
known Becker for years expressed their
sorrow.
Il am very, very sorry for myself" he
declared grimly. q have nothing more
to say"
Mrs. Becker remained in the sheriff's
office a long time after her husband had
been returned to the Tombs. She was
loo overcome with grief to leave imme
lately. When she went at last she had
10 be assisted from the building.