The Glenwood post., 1924-05-29
Matte GILMAN
RECEIVES SENTENCE
For Murder of Her Husband
Woman is Sent to State
Pen for Ten Years
NOW BEHIND the. BARS

Last Friday afternoon the motion
submitted by Attorney M. J. Mayes
for new trial for his client, Mrs. Mat
tie Gilman, recently found guilty of
murder, was overruled by Judge Shu-
mate, and the accused, frail little bit
of humanity showing the strain of the
past few weeks, stood before the trial
judge and, in voice scarcely audible
ind sometimes almost incoherent, de-
slared that there was being put upon
her a great wrong, that she was not to
Name and that she had not been given
a fair show.
At no time in her brief address to
the judge did the little woman deny
that she killed her husband. Neither
did she admit it. She did not refer to
the crime itself, except inferentially,
but contented herself by declaring
that she was the victim of great
wrong. She said she had had the ad-
vantages of a good home and good
home training and that she at one time
moved in the best of society, but she
made no mention of her downfall or
the tragedy which was responsible for
her appearance before the bar of JUS
tice. 81 am not to blame for what
has been put on me-" was the burden
of her claim.
She said she was glad of one thing,
that that was that the time would
come when she would not have to stand
before men and be judged by men and
be made to suffer for the wrongs of
others. This was the tenor Of her
samewhat rambling remarks, at the
close of which she asked the Judge TO
deal leniently with her and show
mercy.
When the prisoner had finished her
statement Judge Shumate said:
The jury found you guilty of murder
in the second degree. The judgment
of the Court on the verdict is that yoh
are guilty as found by the jury. 1t Is
considered, ordered and adjudged by
the Court that you be taken from the
bar of this Court by the sheriff to the
common Jail of this county, from
whence you came and from there, with
all due and convenient speed to the
state penitentiary at Canon City and
there delivered to the warden and kept
and confined therein for period of
not less than ten years nor more than
eleven years. 1t is further adjudged
that the people have judgment against
you for costs.
/ am making the sentence a light
one. You find yourself in q condi-
tion entirely due to whisky and par
ticularly to bootleg whisky. I believe
that had you taken some other kind of
bootleg that they have, more violent
whisky, it would have been more mer-
ciful to you as you would not have
been in the world to get in this con-
ditiou. That is all madam.
Apparently undaunted by this SEN
tence, which tlie Officers believe was
less severe than she had expected,
Mrs. Gilman, apparently summoning
all the strength and nerve she pos
sessed, mounted the witnesses plat
form and reaching across the desk, ex-
tended her hand to Judge Shumate and
thanked him. She was then led back
to her cell in the county Jail, and last
Sunday was conveyed by Sheriff Win
ters to the state penitentiary at Canon
City, where she has entered on her ten
year term.
Mrs. Gilman is 40 years Of age. The
crime for which she was convicted and
for which she is now paying the penal
ty, was the murder Of her husband, j.
"A. (shake) Gilman, at their ranch on
Con creek, near DeBeque, ON the after
noon of March 10, last, after . pro-
tracted drunk, and when she was
wrought up n Estate Of nervous e.
citement; It ply ono "a number
Of simil)g ORGY pring which she aud
hsr husband ks1 quarrelsd tas svi-
/. dsnee showing tlat ON a ynpber Of
these occasions she had shBF y her
husband and often threatened u life.