Life, 1910-02-10 · page 13 of 36
Life — February 10, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page discusses Albert T. Patrick's legal case. Patrick was convicted of murdering an elderly man (Mr. Rice) and sentenced to death. The article explains that Colonel William C. Church, a jury foreman, has challenged the conviction's validity, arguing Patrick should not be executed given doubts about the case's justice. The cartoon by Orson Lowell depicts a demonic figure (representing Patrick or the case itself) fleeing a church, captioned "Just Wait Till After Easter, I'll Fix You." This suggests the cartoon satirizes Patrick's hope that Governor Hughes's commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment might eventually lead to further leniency—implying the legal battle isn't truly over despite the current outcome.
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“LIFE: 241 “Just Wait Till After Easter. Patrick’s Obstinacy Approved HE obstinacy of Albert T. Patrick in refusing to con- cur with the jury that found him guilty of the murder of old Mr. Rice is getting considerable new support. Colonel William C. Church, who was foreman of the grand jury that indicted Patrick, has issued a statement that he believes Patrick to have been unjustly convicted, and that he would not have been indicted if the District Attorney had not bully-ragged the grand jury. This statement ought to please Patrick. He was sentenced to death and Governor Hughes commuted his sentence to life imprisonment on the ground, virtually, that the justice of his conviction was so doubtful that it might come to be a source of mortification to the State to have executed him, Patrick took the position that the State had done wrong in convicting that he had no sympathy with it, and that it ought to be subjected to the mortifica- tion of executing an innocent man. So he was for carrying out the original sentence, but the Governor disobliged him. It looks a good deal as though the Governor's action had spared us some future blushes. ORSON LOWELL T'll Fix You"