Show MAJORS IS FEARLESS I It t F Young Murderer Says Ill Ife ll t t t i 1 WANTS TO BE UNBOUND 41 4 t CRIMINAL TALKS COOLY COOLY OF AP P PRO cHING END ENDt F t t r hI I wilt die ie with with a smile on my mj lips not for bru but to sho show these Deonie how a man mun can die My one re reQuest Quest ouest le he I am am not b j or bound So Abe Abc Majors the theon Condemned on slayer of Captain Brown t it and whoever knows him him has hus doubt douht i j that hu will to a letter Jetter his I ij He 16 I the tho same J Js l j s Majors with no more mor out outward c emotion than lie he has hus during tr 1 all the thc months lie he has been fo II S and so far WI a can be observed 3 thes the sealing flUng of his fate by the board of il 4 pardons purdons affected him him noUn not in the least Majors Perfectly at Ease iI 7 Majors besides his admira blo courage e the ease and grace or of a ai 1 courtier When the guard threw open OIJen It his cell door at the penitentiary yes yest t forenoon and asked him if h Ito ItoI i I would talk tant to a reporter the eon m i I man walked forward as lightly 1 aK he might leave the prison and eat I g 1 tended hand He was wat smiling as c and seemed tU to carry cairy himself I more mora If anything titan than is his He took a seat on on one of the provided for visitors In the corridor corridorI I and waI I for tor the guard t to come comer r hearing be began In hi his smooth low voice to an answer questions Majors Major I Wore It a suit ot of Ji hL checked goods the stripes and barB never having been put putI puta I 1 on a condemned prisoner In the state I prison and his toilet tollet was perfect H HI He I looked to 10 ba b anything but n a man under Sentence of death for murder 1 I did not expel t th the board of par pardons 9 dons to deny mr n petition said he and when I hend that It had done su so suI soI I was shocked hulked mentally if not noti i 1 have no now that I fully realize I have thought at times time that the supreme me court ourt ot at the United States might intervene but I 1 du do not j X ct I am ready to lie die since i that is to hi be my tate I will die with a smile un on my lips nut not for braggadocio I or an hut but to show th these s le how II a man can die rhey are alc Ii a lot Jut of My only request upon my will wili be that I am nut nt d or bound han lian o 0 foot Would tAke ike a Trial rj I or course couse I would like a trial before they t to I my life Ufe I h ve had none yet Yiu can understand that a fair trial ii was with the Intense II prevailing me Even Een wh when 11 I I r people were talking ot of lynching me meI I thoy tOOt ie e into a court und and what whaL kind ot of a trial could a man mun get et there I The evidence against me was false and aulty and such evidence as would not notI I a 2 inin or of petit larceny in the minds of an unprejudiced lury Ont One thing I 1 know Those who know me inc ue are my friends those who will not ii o me are my enemies They are for my life and some ome men meni i haet the courage to oppose public l ii sentiment when their own minds tell v them they lire are right They are the i cow ds I refer to 1 will show them how a man can die 1 entered Into a lengthy review I of the testimony against him as he 1 saw sw It declaring that the who r ted him remarks he had made and concocted tories z against him to secure c a conviction this a art of his talk being similar to his i Imore sie to the board which he hc himself elf wrote the aid of his Boys Voice Palters Falters oJ t j OnlY on once luring the interview did t the young prisoner show any emotion i and that was when lie he said I I like a before they take my life n j I 1 I 1 hc have had none yet He did not r Ii Ii break brOk down but his voice altered II 9 slIghtly Again there was a r I J i We hie e In the smooth tone to his ft i when he was as asked if his i i mother would stay In Salt Lake Lakei i U Yes he replied she will stay here i until the end It was her Intention and JI 1 mint mine to remain here permanently if a pardon WJ ws grant d but I doubt that I will do so 80 now tiow You see m my hopes l 1 we were soaring with the clouds again r 1 assumIng a smile but they are gone gole now so m this is co concerned cerne l lYou i You say you will look into those i rUle rifle barrels 18 and smile he was asked I Yes Yee sit sin I will viii die j is my disposition I Majors Is very grateful to th warden F d i und for their kind treatment |