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Show Youiii Plays Wiih Toy Car as Tmlh Oak Cojkcs F'ssar CANOPn CITY, Colo., Nov. 15 (I'.in- In death row at the Colorado Colo-rado state prison today a sleepy-looking- youth of 23 tfigtflcd like a child while he pushed a toy automobile about, hi.s screened cell, unaware that in a few days he must die. Barring a la.st-minutc miracle, Joseph Ariidy will march to his death . in Colorado's squat lethal gas chamber on Friday night. Kxecutive action and court orders have saved him' from death six times since he aided in the brutal sex murder of 15-year-old Dorothy Doro-thy Drain of Pueblo. Another intervention in-tervention appeared unlikely. Cov. Teller Ammons, Arriday's last hope, has said he would not interfere with the execution. Other Oth-er channels of escape appeared blocked. The Colorado supreme court has ruled. Arridy is sane, thoug'h feeble-minded, and must clio. Warden Roy Best said today that Arridy mental experts said I his brain is that of a child of Six does not realize that he has 1 but a few days to live. He can i not comprehend death. "I've tried to prepare him for what we must do to him," the warden said. "He only giggles and pushes that toy car around." The warden asked Arridy a few days ago if he would consent to the removal of one of his eyes so that the vision of a blind Denver Den-ver lawyer could be destroyed. The condemned man screamed: "I want my eyes, and I'm not going to die." Warden Best, who has presided at many Colorado executions, said that "watching Arridy die for something he apparently doesn't understanding is going to be one of the most difficult jobs 'Ive ever done." Arridy, Best said, is a forgotten forgot-ten man. He never receives a letter of any kind. He is unable to write himself. No one ever calls on him. Arridy escaped from the state home for mental defectives in ln.'iti and a few days later, the court's verdict said, aided in the attack-slaying of the Drain girl. Frank Aguilar, 43-year-old WPA worker, also was convicted of complicity in the crime one of southern Colorado's worst and was executed in the gas chamber Aug. 13, 1937. , Riley Drain, father of the murdered mur-dered girl, watched the execution of Aguilar. ?Ic said today he would be standing beside the death chamber when the white fog snuffs out Arridy's life. |