The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-24

The more ] think of all his &C
tions before and after the tragedy
the moro my lay mind comes t.
the conclusion that he was and Is
crazy. That is the kindest theory
can form for him.
BY his own testimony he was SO
helplessly in the clutches of another
mans wicked wife that, though he
parted from her weeks at a time
he unwillingly and at her bidding
bought murderous tools at differ.
emit intervals. framed and prepared
an alibi far ahead. came at the ap.
pointed hour, waited long. carried
out demopiacal murder-all with.
out any hope or prospect of any
sort of reward. not even for love,
as by his own oath-bound testimony
he was eager to break with the
weird woman who was able to
make him do all those things and
many more he swore to,
Acted Like Crazy Man
II that is true. and that is moi
insanity. what in the name of Ordi.
nary common sense could 1t be?
Now, according to my story, what
Judd Gray did was this:
Meeting and falling In love with
another mans wife, carrying ON an
immoral affair with her, she
CHANGED to tell him how her hus,
band was almost asphyxiated By
accident, after which he could never
stop planning how to undo the fact
that it did not cost her husbands
life; that he thereafter carried q
burning determination to murder
that man, nursing a jealous grudge
against him., and that he finally
did SO against the continued plead.
ingS and protests and resistance oil
that woman.
That plot. though far from
pretty. Is at least understandable
human and might even be con
| strued as sane, but
On the stand, with his own life
at stake. with the life of the woman
he so loved at stake, he not only
fought to get death for himself but
fought and periured his immOrta
soul to send the woman to the cleo
trio chair.
A Constitutional Epileptic
That to me, knowing the trut
facts of the whole matter. is abou
as thoroughly insane a mental pro
cess as the history Of TWISTED
brains enfolds.
Though am constitutional cpl
leptic-one Of the most respectabl,
and Oldest Of the basic legal in
sanity defenses. am advised
never had the remOtest idea o.
pleading insanity.
1t Is enough IL ! brand my
daughter as the child Of what thu
judge and jury made me out with
out leaving her the public heritagC
of being the child of a lunatic o.
maniac or even moron.
But / am compelled through q
sense Of justice, II nothing else, "a
state that if insanity is a bar against
execution for first degree murder
then Judd Gray should not b.
burned"
Sashweight Purchase Was Queer
A man who could buy 50-cent
sashweight in Kingston. New York
and bring it to Manhattan and hand
it to a woman several days later II
place where he could commit with II
murder against which he revoltec
and for the woman against whom he
revolted-go through with that asi
nine piece Of business when in heI
home were monkey-wrenches, axes
hammers, and probably two dozer
sashweights just as good as that one
land on those facts we both agre,
and they are incontestible)-ii
scarcely sane person.
A man who could walk around fol
an hour, hide himself in the house
for two hours, pussyfoot around that
house after his intended victim and
his mesmerizing vampire were there
and who could then participate in 8
murder when for months his deepest
wish had been to be rid of the
woman and his constant struggle
had been to keep her from killins
that victim-is scarcely a.sane per
son.
Sending Her to the Chair
A man who could throw away al
his honest, legal. constitutions
rights to not only defense but sill
ence, and who could sit three days
on a witness chair and not only
pile on and pile on convicting facts
against himself and his alleged &C
cpmplice-but who in that process
when his own attorneys and the
court wanted to adjourn insisted Or
continuing so that he could spill
more and more against himself and
against her in his mania to damn
them both-is scarcely a sane per
son.
A man who could send any
woman. whether he loved her OF
hated her, to the electric chair wher
he knows in his own heart that slla
is not guilty OF the charge on which
she is so condemned-iS scarcely a
sane person.
A man who could save a human
being, whether he loved or hated
her, when she is doomed to die be
cause OF his perjury. when he al
ready has confessed his full guilt
and nothing can save him except
executive mercy, and who, claiming
to have made peace with God mean
while still remains silent-is scarce
ly a sane person.
A man who could be so weak thai
ne could not resist committing q
murder. yet who could be so strong
that he could not resist sacrificing