Show Boy Boyk Seeks eks k Solace g of o Dog Youth Forgets Electric Chair With Memories of I Collie Pet BIBLE ALLEVIATES GRIEF Philosophy of Sacred Book Cheers Doomed Lad Editors Editor's Note Not This Is Js the third and concluding story of ot a series tracing the life of RU Russell McWillIams McWilliams Mc- Mc WillIams 17 to a cell in Joliet penitentiary where he awaits electrocution a few minutes after next Thursday midnight Thelast legal appeal has failed It seems certain th the youth will die in the electric chair the youngest person person per per- son ever executed in Illinois S By RAY KAY BLACK United Press Fress Staff Stat Writer CHICAGO Dec 5 Seventeen 5 year-old year Russell McWilliams with six days between him and the electric chair blotted out that ominous prospect prospect pros pros- for a few moments today by chatting chatting chat- chat ting ling enthusiastically about Man ManDog ManDog ManDog Dog his collie Hes a r real al pal exclaimed Russell Russell Russell Rus Rus- sell the Rockford II IlL youth who was condemned to death because he shot and killed William Sayles 64 street car motorman in a holdup last August 2 29 n y b blue c eyes ies br brightened and his lanky sL foot six foot form straight straight- ened I got a letter from a man who raises collies in California yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day he said The California m man manold m told old me mc about his dogs and their good points Shucks Man Dog is as good goodas as any of them REAL PAL Besides hes he's a real pal Always barked when I drove up the driveway at home in my car car I I-I I I sure will miss him The youths youth's shoulders sagged and he xe dropped into the rocker in the solitary confinement building he looked around for the Bible sent him by Mrs Mildred Kerrison Rockford woman who became interested in him after his trouble His fingers sought out the Bible and he opened it There were marks markson on in the book of St St. Luke where the Bible was as open opened d The passage passage pas- pas sage age was Judge not and ond ye shall not be judged condemn not and ye yc shall not be condemned forgive and ye shall shalle be e forgiven Russell reread the passage He did not nol seem seem to realize that condemned m men n in inmany many countries countries' had sought ought solace for centuries in that passage It was It-was t was like a discovery to him You know knowl he s said id I 1 believe that hat is the right dope If they would just give me another chance Id I'd make makei a i good man out of myself I didn't know enow there was so much good philosophy philosophy phi- phi in the Bible until I started reading it after they here LIQUOR TO BLAME IE I was a fool to drink and fool tool around with guns The liquor got me rue mento into nto this jam I have no one to blame but myself The youth Is scheduled to be electrocuted elec lec- lec shortly after midnight next Continued on Pace Paie Two CONDEMNED E ETHIS YOUTH THIS TAlKS OF PET DOG from Pace Face One Thursday Executive clemency mency was denied by Governor Louis L. L Emmerson Emmer Emmer- son despite pleas for tor clemency by Clarence Darrow widely known Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago attorney and other notables b before before be be- fore the board of ot pardons and pa pa- roles Russells Russell's attorney said no further legal steps would be taken to save him since the last avenue of appeal had been traversed Only a miracle can intervene it is believed The boy has not abandoned all hope but his assurance that something will savo save him is waning I wish they would make it life Ute Imprisonment he said I would be satisfied to work in the machine shops here the rest of my life if 1 had to I 1 was born to be a machinist |