New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

make another appeal to Governor
Whitman. The Governor, however,
was adamant and insisted that the law
should take its course.
Kohn and Miller refused to abandon
hope, and, going to Buffalo, retained
Thomas O'Grady, private detective
who has since worked on the case IN
termittently. There Mrs. Humiston was
picked up and the two lawyers, with
O'Grady, went to Medina, the nearest
large town to the scene OF the CRIME
This was on Thursday, three days be-
fore Stielow was to have been executed.
There was little to be developed IN
Medina, where feeling ran high against
the prisoner, and again motion for
new trial was made, this time re-
turnable before Justice Cole in Buffalo
on Friday.
Bv this time the papers in the case
we're numerous enough to I'LL small
trunk. 1t was obviously impossible
for the court to pass on the motion
in the twelve hours that remained for
Stielow to live. AS matters stood the
court had no choice but to grant
new trial unless another reprieve was
piven. In this situation Governor
Whitman granted Stielow thirty days
more of life. When it came to argument
this time District Attorney Knicker-
booker was not ready and yet another
thirty day reprieve was issued. Be-
fore this had expired Justice Cole de-
MED the motion on July 19, and it
seemed that Stielow, whose death had
been fixed for July 20, had but ten
| days to live.
/ The day before his time was up
another appeal was made to Governor
Whitman. The Governor again de-
clined to interfere, holding that as
court after court had declined to act
there was no reason why he should
That night there was another con-
ference in which Miss Sophie Irene
Loeb, Misha Appelbaum and the late
Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, who
had meantime come into the case
Joined with Kohn and Miller. Mrs
Boissevain suggested that yet another
appeal be made to the courts and
search was begun for justice of the
Supreme Court. Justice Charles l.
Guy was finally located in his home or
West End Avenue and at o'clock in
the morning the case was presented
to him.
Stielow now had but two hours to
live. His wife and two children had
bade him goodby, the prison barber had
shaved his poll, he had donned the
death suit with the slit leg provided by
the state, and the death chair had been
tested and found in perfect order.
Even the sponges used to make the con-
tact complete were soaking in the
bucket behind the chair, and the wit
nesses bidden to the execution had be-
gun to arrive in the prison.
Outside in the prison Mrs. Stielow,
dry-eyed, was waiting with her. chill
dren to claim her dead.
The urgency Of the case appealed to
Justice Guy, and while he realized that
several courts had passed on the case
and there was perhaps small chance
that any would act favorably, he de-
cided to give the prisoner the benefit of
the doubt and issued stay good until
IL o'clock that night.
Wild Race
For Sing Sing
Then began a race for Sing Sing
twenty-seven miles away.
Somebody" said Kohn afterward
telling of the race, clipped off the New
York police that we were on a mission
of life and death, anj it's to be said to
their credit that they gave US every
help. There was, as you may know, q
strike on at the time, and the streets
were lined with police, but they did not
bother us for breaking speed laws. In.
stead, they kept the way wide open.
II shall never forget the greeting
Fred Dorner gave us. First he looked
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