The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13
IIils WADE VEKDICT.


 IIIl WADE VEItDICI. FADE DEF1IED the home of Nott disobeyng funda- WV religion and civilization With malice and long continued delbeaon Wade sought the life of No Wade tried to hire others With Johnston he lay in wait No At the end Wade with his accompce Johnston and the consent of the guilty wife, entered the home of No on the Sabbath day. found him eepng beat him with iron pipe shot him. and stabbed him several tmes with knife Johnston ran away.
 The woman remained until accomplished. Nott escaped his bed who had from his room struggled for his life with his murderer until p pe famiar Which he had used n happier cried "Frownie Help mel Wade testes sponded to ptifu appeal by handing him the knife.
 most foul crime, in which appears exenuating The verdict is triumph for old justice
 ury under the direction of Mr. Cummings, the states attorney avoided ptfa of unwrtten law, and brought in verdict in accordance law old written into the ten commandments and into the statutes of every people, savage and civilized
 legally guilty of crime if when he mitted he could not distinguish right from When the darkened morality penetrate depths and without moral responsibility he i in the of the law insane and not cupabe he commits the most grievous offense.
 But modern that there and women who live between insanity and normacy Between normal human creatures with normal intelligence the imbeele there is in which the mind be @ e n b a een beye these creatures with the of moron is whose mind has not the normal mind does present points aspect intelligence they grow up They do not respond simple tests which persons of normal mind would meet with They perception They completely adapt themselves to environment. They grow up.
 I for Wade that & he M that he restraining his impulses to evil Knowing right from he did wrong by irresistible mpulse.'
 If tire scientific view of wades mind correct, the law does not contemplate the excpation cuprt he knew when committing the that it and that he should not do it.
 This principal of punishment wrong doing applied to creatures lower in the scale than the human creature who called Fear will restrain baby will Wade at least had the mentality of child He knew wrong to murder He knew what the ment might be- He knew enough to conpire secret He knew enough to hide the body of his victim trunk enough to hire automobile with which to the trunk. knew enough to sink the trunk and the body his victim i remote from beaten paths
 The attracted crowds Tn the crowds were other morons who waiting degree blity murder Is it too much that the con of Wade will have much restraining upon L these whipping has upon dog?
 1 De sure Ill case where the accused IS moron per- kson osuch undeveloped mind the motive behind comes of protection for society and less the punishment
 The unwrten law has than defense The de- fense that the accused though knowing right of the of his ae also attempt to defend by unwriten law. The has refused the defense The stands State Connecticut head his body, and plead extenuaton undeveopet mind Yet there Society is something blanc them. In the Wade family there history The ances Mrs Mott belong catesory undeveloped mnds rhe all The law of science would be morseless than the law of the legislatures If the hopecssly defective if it turns tiger if it sh impulses it must be suppressed relenessy capable of expressing itself there be repentance goo works But if the machine cannot produce good pro duce evil the creature cannot resist his impulse lhere is nothing worth preserving
 There is nothing that be done. Assuming that Wad a moron justice has not far away The tee hopeessy eeftainy not so reyou thing the removal of those who capable improve men regeneration wholesome exsenc
 The Wade verdict is the best verdict atainable.
 
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