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Show Hoped for Stay of Execution Arkansas Sheriff Delays Hanging a Personal Friend to the Last Minute. PARlVGOULD. Ark., June 0. Mart V Vowcll, an aged white man, was hanged here this afternoon a few j minutes before 6 o'clock for the j murder of F. J. Iovejoy. The hanging was scheduled to take place at 1:30 o'clock. Under the laws of Arkansas a hanging may ho held at any time between noon and G . m. Vowell was a personal friend of the Sheriff, and the postponement was made In the hope of a stay at execution from Gov. Davis. During the cntho olter-noon olter-noon many friends of Vowell besieged tho Governor's office at -lttle Rock beseeching beseech-ing him to Intervene, and It was only wlHMi tho hour of C o'clock, the ilnal time limit, was so close as to preeludo all hope of repriove that tho Sheriff sprung the trap. |