The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-29

earth which can save Becker from going to the electric chair at 5:45 sto-morrow morning ex- .cept that vested in Gov. Whit man, unless of course more new evidence is discovered which will stand the test which -Becker's latest offering failed to do, and upon which Justice Ford has passed.
 District Attorney Perkins and members of his legal staff, and Justice Ford himself, say there is no appeal from the courts findings, although w. Bourke Cochran, chief of Becker's counsel, believes that he can find a way.
 Justice Ford, who has been almost continuously at work since last Mon day on the problem offered by Beck CTS motion, with the exception of three hours and a half in court in two days and four hours sleep each night, announced his decision at 1915 last night.
 Perkins, Contention Upheld.
 He upholds all the contentious of District Attorney Perkins in regard to the newly discovered evidence which own statement, containing the nrst definite news of the meeting he had with Big Tim Sullivan the Sunday night before the murder, is discarded as not newly discovered, because Beck CT know about it at the time of his trials and failed to make use of it.
 All the attacks on the informers, particularly Rose and Webber, which are made in the eleven aff1davits of fered by MT. Cochran, are declared to be cumulative by Justice Ford. He limits the powers of his own court to the powers prescribed by statute, and denies that he has inherent power, a statement to which effect was part of MT. Cockran's argument.
 Justice Ford was to have passed his 53d birthday with his family yester- day. but instead remained in his chambers balancing Beckers life in the scales After he had made l1is decision public he said he had almost reached his decision Tuesday night
 sNThe power of any court is limited by statute,'' he said. ttand the reason for it NRn a motion of this kind is plain. No court would want to take the re- SD onsfbility for a mans execution, and if evidence such as this were enough. Ito cause a new trial no one would ever go to the chair.
 Says Task Was Hard.
 tsI dis1iked to decide the action this way, and I've had a hard time, but the legal precedents kept piling up before me and there was no way by which I could get away from it, I had no inherent power and the evidence offered in support of the motion does not stand the tests required loy the statutes.
 "Becker's fate now rests with the governor
 District Attorney Perkins when mo- tffid by newspaper men said he was very glad that Justice Ford had taken such care with the case.
 s.I ann quite confident there was no merit in the afhdavits offered in Beck CTS behalf, and I am sure no mistake is being made in carrying out the sen tence imposed by the court
 In his decision Justice Ford says the ton1y question before him is whether the evidence set forth as newly dis covered meets the requirements of section 465, suib-divisionS7
 The affidavit of Benjamin Kaufman who said Rosentha1 was planning to leave town the night he was killed, he disrnisses as not being adrniSsi bIe as eviden under court rules. Edward Ginty, who related that Jack Rose ad said he had $5, 900 which was to have been used to get RosenthaI out of the way, could not have testified to this at the trial except to i'm peach Roses tes- timony, Justice Ford rules and inn. peachment of a witness has no weight