Show I A Happy Family G W Matthews who was convicted of wife murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for life which Judgment and sentence ha Just Tjcen affirmed by the Court of Appeals had a reunion re-union at the county Jail at Paris Tax before being carried to the penitentiary and had a picture of his children grandchildren grand-children and sonsinlaw and chidren sonInInw daugh tersinlaw taken In a single group There were thirtynine in the group and it did not Include three or tour i thrfe sons and daughters and nn their families living in the Territory and Arkansas The llflf rrtn in t MIA rrrriiiri Ttftrft rlt children of a former Irejrei Is nearly 70 years old and the wife for whose death he was convicted was only 19 years old His home was at Ilowland but the tragedy occurred in Paris a year ago He fatally stabbed his vic tim with a pocketknlfe on n prominent thoroughfare At the trial while the Jury was out the mother of the woman he killed Knelt in he I courtroom and fervently prayed that the Jury might mlrht not give him the death penalty as she considered life Imprisonment a greater punishment Dallas News |