Show Brewer Starts Start Life Anew Behind I Gray Walls WaIls of Utah Penitentiary I CONDEMNED SLAYER ACCEPTS CALMLY Murderer Will Reform Self Before Preaching to Others HOPES FOR LIBERTY Shielding Career From His I Friends Brought Death I r Shadows I II I BY BURL ARMSTRONG Convict No 32 17 will start life anew this morning morning- State vs Ha Iary i-Iary y is a closed dosed chapter in what has been and this human enigma will begill begin begin be be- gin gill back where he left off at the third reader to lead a life of crime Brewer of of- course isn't his right fright n name me Somewhere in one ode of the large cities are are a father and mother two sisters and a brother T The They ey dont don't mean very much to Brewer in the sense that he hungers for a sig sight t of them but he lIe would as soon give his i life as to tell who they are The state Dar board yesterday I gave Brewer a a longer lease on life and morning he goes into the first gr de n takes up his bis life with sevel several sev sev- eral erl hundred other unfortunates Brewer Drewer told me sue yesterday that he lie is going to conduct himself in suh man man- day somo iner- iner day ba iloh Joo e.- e. it Jt t. t may take fake teJi years yearS yearS' it maZy may take tako twenty I Sure of 01 F Freedom I But he is just as os s sure of 1 isY freedom as he lie was that he would not I be shot And he says he lie was sure of that when the pardon board last September September Sep Sep- i broke the death watch with a reprieve I had heard a lot about Brewer I There had been a detailed review of his career from his attorney Parley P. P Jenson and there had been columns of stories about him In the press Then there were those who dont don't like capital punishment and those who were won by the naive manner of the prisoner His hands were reeking with blood There was no excuse not excuse not even from himself himself for for the shooting of ot Allen at Bingham Ills His nerves were of steel and he had no conscience And when I 1 thought of Riley and Thorne and Morris and some others who were perforated for cause It bothered me meto to find out how a man of Brewers Brewer's activities could escape the same fate Interview Interview- Granted Warden Varden Pratt was vas good enough to grant an Interview a few minutes after the pardon board had spared Brewers Brewer's life Brewer occupies cell No 2 on the death gallery That same cell was the theone theone theone one Hillstrom barricaded and defended on that fateful morning when he was shot But Brewer isn't worried about the memories of that awful morning for he saw the fight Hillstrom made He was attracted to that particular cell because it was clean Brewers Brewer's nails are well manicured His teeth are white I 1 imagine if he couldn't get a toothbrush he lie would take the next best thing for he would not let his teeth go Nothing troubles him or worries him The past he has wiped out The present cant can't be helped and the future future future fu fu- fu- fu ture will take care of ot itself would How you explain your feeling when you knew w in a few hours you would be shot Would you repent your crime Would you plan escape Would you feel sympathy for those who had felt the sting of your crime Thinks of Hereafter The only thing Brewer thought of was eternity He forgot the past and began to carve out of ot his own simple philosophy some Idea of what the hereafter hereafter here here- after is composed of ot His father is an Englishman his mother a Swede And he ho hadn't gone to 10 Sunday school or church for nearly twenty years He started a career of ot crime at twelve and he will be twentythree twentythree twentythree ty-three ty years old on New Years Year's day so he says For eleven years he hasn't thought much about eternity And if it it hadn't been for the fact that a number of ot deputy sheriffs were loading the rifles for his his' execution he may not have thought about It then And I 1 was still thinking of ot Thorne Theme and Riley and Morris and some of the others when I asked him what inward sensation he lie felt on toe eve of being shot tI Had H ad Funny Feeling I I 1 had a funny feeling Inside of me said Brewer I wasn't scared scared scared-don't don't dont think that But it was here far down on my left side and I 1 cant can't just exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex explain it It was a funny tunny feeling feel feel- ing like jug like I dont don't know what The Brewer mind had been turned toward the trade and not toward a reading of the Brewer soul Did you ponder on the hereafter Well he smiled pleasantly I knew there was something in this story Continued on page pas 2 2 I II Harry Brewer who today takes up the straight N ND I and narro narrow path yath where he left off eleven years ago while J II studY studying g a third grade reader I I l lY I ri I Y I I 1 j 1 i H t f t t j t tj 1 W I N Ni i y i I BREWER STARTS LIFE Continued from page 1 1 about being saved in eternity If It you professed Christ and being in eternal damnation if you didn't have anything to do with Him but I couldn't figure it all out If Brewer had been as studious with theology as he was with crime he heI I would have been a good preacher His partner in crime Barrett who was with him im when he was robbing the Memphis store m in in- which he was caught has reformed So has Br Brewer But Barretts Barrett's reformation has been toll followed owed by a hurried effort on Barretts Barrett's Barrett's Barretts Barretts Barrett's Bar Bar- rett's part to reform others Reform Self First Brewer will be content if it he reforms himself He has no idea of reforming any anyone one else and he hasn't any suggestions suggestions sug sug- suggestions to make He is mighty happy to be vIv v lv a chance to live and he pr relive tive Ve square r p J always had an idea if men n pj rb ned e I j would paint for tor me Jr r others the beauty and grandeur not n e straight path we would be more apt to follow tollow it than when they paint the horrendous pitfalls of the paths by-paths that run off the straight road And if anything at all has been acComplished accomplished ac ac- ac- ac I by all the good goad pe people who interested themselves in Brewer this Brewer this blond eyed blue-eyed youth with nn an aristocratic aristocratic aris aris- chin a fine mouth and splendid splendid did forehead i forehead ii if any any good at all has been accomplished it has been in giving him an Insight into the glories that are found on the straight road He knew all the othe stuff Ove Overcoat coat Trap r rap It is always some same little apparently Insignificant detail that traps a criminal crim criminal inal And Brewer told for the first time how it was an that caused his arrest He is thankful for that overcoat for it he had been permitted permitted per per- to continue there is no telling how tragic might have been his end When he entered the Memphis store to commit b burglary he left his overcoat overcoat over aver coat near the window In a far part of the store he operated on a safe sate When he saw the store was surrounded he started to m make ke his escape Then he thought of his coat He had nearly escaped from the building when he started back after it After that it was too late and he was caught What made you go back after an ane overcoat e t when you could have gotten away The Th Thoat coat oat Jad had my tailors tailor's t name In 1 It ft f and the police would have found me out ou t. t Well you'd have been gone wouldn't you you T I asked him Yes and Brewer smiled his golden smile again But I was living with a very respectable family In ln Memphis and I wouldn't have them k know what what t tI I was doing It might have been his own family family- he woul wouldn't nt say |