Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-07-01

ack and came to New York, bringing
his kit of tools with him. He had new
er heard Of the Hell's Kitchen section
and was asking work along Tenth AM
Eleventh avenues because factorie
were located there. He met mai
who seemed to take an interest in him
This man introduced him to another
and they bought him his supper at ,
restaurant near the river. They toll
him that they could get him work, bu
he would have to work at night. The!
looked over his kit Of tools, and one O
them admired a steel drill and said /
was fine one.
AFTER nightfall," Montgomery tolt
the jury. II went with the men a mum
Der Of blocks east One Of them tool
my tools and babe me wait at corner
was beginning to suspect that some
thing was wrong when heard dull
explosion as If In a cellar. A minute
after one of the men passed me. run
ming. He dropped the kit Of tools and
the wrench. My tools were oil that
stood between me and starvation. II
they were lost I could not hope to gel
work at my trade. l grabbed up the
wrench. threw it into the bag and
started to run away when l was ar
rested"
The cross examination furnished the
young prosecutor with excellent prac
tice in those sophistries supposed to be
necessary in the practice of law. The
boy was as wax in the hands of the
quest1oner before him. After an hou,
Of misery and bewilderment he was
excused from the stand.
The court and counsel conferred in
whispers. The arguments followed
They were brief. While the rules OF
evidence would not permit the mother
of the prisoner to beg for his life and
proclaim her belief in his innocence
they allowed the prosecutor in his ad.
dress to the jury to paint him as a des
perate young thief. crouching in the
dark with a heavy iron wrench uplift.
ed and quick to do murder for the sake
Of loot.
CARROTS address was short and
weak. His vocabulary was that OF
the money hungry lawyer who sits in
hole in the great city shutting bonds
and mortgages through his fingers and
always nibbling away at the little
hoardings of ignorant clients. His
sense of humanity and his apprecia
ton of the pity and horror of the
whole drama in which be was par.
ticipating were nil.
The judges instructions to the jury
were a string of empty words. mouthed
hurriedly and tonelessly.
The case was entirely circumstan
tial. There was one way for the jury
to avoid the risk of sending an limo.
cent man to his death in the electric
chair. They took it. The clerk order.
ed the prisoner to stand and face the
jury and the jury to look upon the
prisoner.
"Gentlemen, have you reached q yer:
dict?" asked the clerk.
1--WE have" replied the foreman
1--WE find the defendant guilty of muir
der in the second degree"
The country people who had jour
neyed to the metropolis to do wha,
little they could for the Widows sol
took Mrs. Montgomery back will
them. What little brightness of hope
had been within her during the tria
of her boy vanished with his convtc
ton. -.
She had tried the day after the tria
to reach the judge and appeal to him
for mercy and light sentence, bu
the importunings of widows. wives ant
children are avoided by the judiciary
as much as possible. The legal repre-
| sentative of great banking institu
| ton or some mighty estate or corpora
ton has the open sesame to the cham
bers of the men wearing the ermine
but there Is not such great number
Of these and the poor are a mighty
| multitude.
At every turn the mother of Jane:
Montgomery met with an obstacle
She had no big Mike" This or Little