Show GOVERNOR SPARES MAN lN STA STATE lE FORGOT x I 3 4 4 s SI S I I I I I I I I I Lh I 1 CHARLES I Lexington Ky Ky Like a modern sword of or Damocles a sentence of death for thirty one months hung over tho the head o of Charles Douthitt Douthiti 2 24 years old sentenced to bo ho electrocuted for tor I tho murder of ot Vernon Sims a aged ed IS 18 In 1017 Ini Eight times Douthitt held in the death eath house of ot the Eddy Eddyville penitentiary where Kentucky murderers ers are arc electrocuted saw men go to the el electric elec c- c chair from Death Row where he incarcerated while two was governors go gov declined to set a n. date ate for his execution finally pass passing Ins Ins- tho matter up UI to their successors successor Governor Morrow was moved by the plea of Douthitt to reporters attendIng attendIng attending attend attend- ing a recent electrocution at nt Eddyville when Douthitt asked ed the tho newspaper newspapermen men to appeal to the governor to end this suspense its it's awful Morrow had hadnot hadnot hadnot not heard of or the prisoner his two pre- pre i having been in office orfice when 1 the case was up but Immediately commuted the tho sentence to life lite Im ImprIsonment Imprisonment Im- Im saying he believed belie DouthItt Douth Douth- Itt had buffered as much as a man manS could suffer suHer when he saw eight men S I go o to their death Douthitt is a big natured good I country bo boy who killed Sims in a fight while drunk Douthitt said he had I II wanted to go to war ar where all his I friends had fought |