The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1906, Page 8

jit te fwilgtit the unwritten law / of United States Senator at Hasethurst, “COMING INTO * Many Cases in Which It Is Urged for Defense ‘Now Before Public. “NOT CLEARLY DEFINED. . TATE TPE Means that Crime !s Morally Justified Though Forbidden by the Written Code. "SOME NOTED INSTANCES Among the Pending Trials in Which It Will Figure Will Bé Those of Harry Thaw and Mrs, Pradley; @the uneritten ay has come inore into prominence within tr than at any other of criminal procedure in country, | Involved in th casa and OWN be offered in defense of Mra. Annie PBFadley, the slayer of ex-Seuator. Ar- thur Brown, of Utah. Within » fort Offered ‘in ‘dsong, & niece MeLaurin, wee shot to death Dr. Thomas Butler Misa, The jury, how- @vee, convicted thet woman, of man- sigughter, and It will be offered to anve time thig defense of Mrs. Angie B. + the Hves of James ard Philip Strother, abd shot and killed William Fy Dy; Waters, in Culpeper, Va, after ttey, jhad compefied him to marry their sis- ter, “Wporadically the unwritten law has come tip Im murder triais in almost every State in the Union and more par- tcntatiy th the South. ho! unwritten law wlearly defined judic Bray understood to m: fication where ti has never been DUE It y moral ju ni legal e It-hax saved scores of men from atlows and also sent women free who Were acciised of deliberate murde>. Only aifew years age o e Bhot tailor n the 1 f down a e:cnograp Rochester. He husoand’s jo murder in the fir ¥ had heard h wag indicte e¢ anil ry they her in open ox Not Clearly Defined. Rarely | ruled where E x unwritten law was offered as a defense, though ia one n case on Fhoord wert presiding judge com- Manded the Jary to agquit: He was judge Gray Falconer. of the Cireu sourt, in Lexington, Ky The detend- fant had k d anothec man who tn- Vaded Wie heme and brovight distion: won {lus house. ‘The facts of the KL Mourtl riled that there had beat Justi- Peon, for the ing under the \n- cupsied Jaw f the earlier cases of this kind prob. Vatly the most famous was) that in )arhich Gen. Daniel ek shot a Burton eter Hed Philip Barton Key, United States: —_-——.__— DOOR SHUT, TRAPPED HIM IN OFFICE SAFE! Presi Hour sylum. an FORT ward ¢ Beard 0 School fc a, harrow Wils a Te eelt ch, Wilson had ey some “pgners, ond the door wwing to oner Wilson resor: oulory (hut meas aliinste ned th aI tho va aa to attract Mas acon ak the sound Hels! located tha door was | Bad, Wilson eet at Uberty, GENERAL USE: | | [In His Remarkable Book, ‘‘The American ca TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 19OOe THE EVENING WORLD, Women Who Have Figured in Tragedies for Which written Dew Has Been Invoked | | | | | Ais ong Brodey ET? MEA BGO BIT BIAS ONS eet IPS: 7G. SEE SHORT CIRCUIT CLOGS CENTRAL ELECTRIC. LINE = ew Service Cena fe Yard Suddenly Put Out of Commission. HOW AMBASSADOR BRYCE LOOKS. UPON AMERICANS. , aes ares aus James Bryce, Britain’s New Ambassador Here. _monwealth,’’ the New British Representa- tive Gained Fame by His Analysis of Our Laws and Customs, 4 to a The Right Honor new British Ambas j s is known | through bis remarkable ¢ | American Co: Or Wee electrical service in the west yard | Sriginally published In the New York Central’ was put out | through several editions. commilssion to-day by the she fication of {ts prede {ung of one of the monster h run out of the new power-ho el as chapl t throughout the will die iL War, WOMAN KILLED ~ BY FIRE ON WAY TO EARLY MASS Devotion to ee ney can Comfort Prevented Mrs. (Ss Kelly Calling Him. DIED WITH AID NEAR Firemen Driven Back by, Flame from Kitchen Where Victim Burned. Edward Kelly, of No. 19 Weat . tleth street, arose early to attend 5 o’clook masz to-diy at the Paulist Fathers’ Chureh, Fifty-ninth street ané She lighted the fire hen stove, and her dress waa Not wishing to awaken har she tried to put out the fire, ke, and in & Mrs. 8! Columbus avenue. nd. made minutes she wae dead. the husband, works tn ~ York Central Ratiroad yarte, was fitty fatal mi a years old, most devoted couple in the five-story tenement-house. Mra, \Kelly jalways thought of hi hard-working asband’s comfort. That is the reason | she did not call him when the frat little | flame caught her skirt. | For a few moments she tried to ex- jtinguish the fire, but it gained, and | some curtains about the window were Also set blazing. “Then Mrs. Kelly screamed and her husband rushed to istance. Wheat he got to the chen door the room waa one roaring re. At the same instant Thom. Findley, who lives across the hall, 4 and saw Kelly taping oward the wife. udley thought it was 'too late to | save the woman. He had all he could | do to pull the man out of the fire, which was presfing at a fearful rate, | Pollceman Leonanl, of the We: xty- © et station, heard the yells of t S, WhO were in pani! and re . 0 came and the | tennnige many ad climbed. {down fire ecapes, begged Captain An: we to rave Mr. Kelly. He sent y all his men to the room but too hot fe and nwo nd G) a rush pse of tha Then her hus- and and aa isery. Hi the: remen & carried. im to } “floor above. The . SICK GIRL FOUND DYING WITH COLD 4 y at ae hingtow— : en.| tures on mnembera of th Nickles met Key on Sixteenth sttret.| to the bringing of su A exclaimed | Nid Vases s by Takes Burden of Talk, Heth tree = . jWashington, and exctatmed In londlages "by ex-Mayor Oukey 1s eam locomotives had to be substi 1 Dis sia ay Hospital, io Key, you. mcoundrel, you have din-| lost by default, Bryce in an avowed ad: > Se does NOt | tuted for the big electric motors whlch | \Genored my house; vou must dic. mires of President Hoosevelt. and ‘ Seo Sag eae lily. Ladson Searched | eKoy throat hin bind tnto a side nock-| acknowledges the latter's ald in prepare thim. Js for the past nine days. @t.and took n step toward Gen. Sickle eaten mate rds for the past ni - Ins m ‘eeho whipped out a eun and fired. ‘Then [MR (he Invest edition of his famous | & OMcials of the road sald there had Vainly for Her Home, Packing Into the middle of the. street | ook. : ae Its on the| been. na. jnterter with the heavy (the General fired tw inflicting af (Phe ensting extracts m “The | oy of wonton | vec Tat all ortal wound. At the trial which fol-| American Commonwealth” give somo! « Holiday; tra mes Mena been 19143, ip jowed the unwritien law was inyokal| | i i Aaparelawer or opened to! just at the tine of the accident, as the 1 a mass of golden | and the jury rendoiad a verdict of te- ae of ee Ee atteabarnigeert pre Narlety Of.) steam locomotives hat been held in read! into tho Gates Avenue ! he country which is to iis ott 5 al graces of the eee CaaS ‘ tation, Brooklyn, to-da y Another Famous Case. home. : ONO FAD EC eR OA ae ee | ly Ladson, and I'm 9 cold," He refers, In the early nineties, to! b have been produced | Edward Berry CoM iG UA Ss ; baat th few years Inter the social any : ; ndence “and a capacity 5 nty-sevdnth ; geet world was thrilled by ant theodore Roosevelt ‘One of the are Increasingly vai- St anes Mote Fake Ua ieee 5 ‘ that wan Justific M. theune'| ablestai and most of thi number of unma opened the door of the at A policeman paught her as she fell ritten iaw. In ils tragedy Mrs. Nel | singer «entation ‘Aqiértean’ poll sos, ‘More resources ara| side the wall of) the pov to Bho was found to be al- sd Ehud a Cab tes : Weromun who has! irrough which the. cablea ¢ the | most and Dr, Knops was hastily “etoor John Y. Brown of Kentucky, deseribos, for European, readers, nts but, tors the nd was thrown a! summoned trom Bushwick Hospital. He {Fore shot to death by the worun aera eerurae eaPreil er mind and tastes, sf a -| ais { thak her eins, {sot and He found Brown and his wife to-|deney of the United 8 in the fol- nr widows De tadel n | tian > frosibitten.: She sald ahe BRT lB as eaute te Leuleetlie nnd | towing terme ihetion cables, | tived a aiMieasternirieont hii treat: Hed hem porn. After he Dad heen ag: | sThesPreadent Ja. the uot of the bigh tension current, | sranha a y the Coroners Ju er Brown, the father of the murdered | Gonatitution of 1758 ¢ + 5 ¢ Sia new Rioweralioas WEIN SHURE UOC ,, declared t) in ease of At there Was to tuck a tnag- erhap LO eavONe Lisi iow Where it was. but: the: i. x perhaps ales ty r . but, they Hon ‘he would ba rear tie alateamens afiithe Conven ie types | pital 114 will probably Rare Tew guireleencien The’ Grand Jury {| tion, ike the sond, | mt iGrioment he, iat he eT rR ONY teat] to go home, T've heen walking about Gordon and he was never tried they were, aid hot try to construct | them Y 5 i ne third rally in Hivisons | all night trying to find my home," Last April Frederick ©. § him out of thelr own trains, -~ which are known the | phe was sent to Bushwick Hoa- Sonk Sten epeomeriact Ayatklits toveomnwaexia respec . It ix b i a: bs =i ays ° uo el eric! 2. Di ~ short ciroulting was jn | pital 4 four Falls, whom he en “combustion — pr Nyse f peho Sa PUT tien ing with Nin wife one Sunday evening. Gul be ov sR Ue oti thant: torr omerdiatance ic pone stash e naseeen a DT teon EL ALTE ‘The Grand Jury refused to find an In-| » ns) Were 10 Dying Workman Lay © Reside , sidress—the. Stuyvésint apartments— _leteneat > revealed the f. at Mr. and Mra. H. he unwritien law was Invoked for small to permit Mj Tracks Half an iH, | | Goldman, who are tenants, employed’ e Thomas G,. ‘Barker who tn A court: o1 ? { aes oT 198, Jay In walt behind a he ne | oltre te Taburer nor cal j | While at workin the yardn at _PREST DROPPED DEAD iar: known as Govle Ladde. ‘The Golde pega el tea aa Fi Ae} virtue of the, oltlt a : pe | Grand Station Jhte Yast night [Rane dpclied eRe pate gnbe ALOLaushs Aint that vitae br | itles ot ne aden: > mn n Pen ront verre tolaner DONNING VESIMENTS | wick troritat co eee ner. 1 it wert anttect SCaiaee wan sea ce| hoy atid. sho had worked for them Hut) sucution-trianers to a6 enahostenianere land lite itive months, and yesterday was given ae NAH aesalt ‘ . ; right arm: cut off, | > DE Tex., Dec. 2ie-Rev. T. K.| Christmas as a day off, They say she man redyy Inju r The man halt an hour beside the | Grog Patrick'# Church, while n sent to Brooklyn on visits, where, Barker Was 5) sbrve 3 aweing tracks before the accident was ds-| putting on his vestments to, celebrate they sald, she had a oousin named years in prir ein te f covered. and was then taken to the |p sn Maced ma did tot Ho | @dda living at No. 51 Grand attest. pees F Flower Hospital, where ft ts sald he ‘Ms, hin w Now York regi: | They supposed that she was going thers ) yesterday. Onin Failures xbver in Cities. Mr al is proponder on the ¢ water n will dhe enti tern mel the observed, nt point tle have nittonality dhd’srown | | | cerns hey Tribute ‘to Women, | down i => , Hig {fs pald the Amertean | ——r K ‘ tes r | (an women a greater nding what they Yet there are cons Nees between the Eastern | usages haye begun to apr A ad habits ‘of Can- Political Uife gen. Could Overthrow Tammany. y entrenched. os Tammany Ls, lags of pe A MILE in 43. SECONDS ON BROADWAY. GNLY MAN IN NEW YORK WHO CAN GO AS FAST | HE. WANTS TO. t li asc RGR Nai aisle bl iii and they —, — a ~