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Show ROSE SENTENCED TO. BE SHOT APRIL 22; TAKES HIS FATE QUITE CALMLY ? THINKS HE'LL LIKE PRISON FARE BETTER THAN FOOD AT JAIL. "Oh, I feel Just fine," said Frank w Rose this morning. Just before sen- M tence of death was passed on him. W "This is a lovely day, and I am ) glad to get out if only for a brief 0 M spell. I'll be glad when this thing la all over with, and the sooner it is W the better. I am tired of the 'chuck' 0 0 they give us at the county Jail and 0 0 hope the penitentiary will be much 0 better In that respect. I think I'll 0 like the place." 0 Sheriff's office by Deputy Cowan, accompanied ac-companied by four other deputies. The entire affair did not take over six minutes. min-utes. Rose will be taken to the penitentiary and placed in death row as soon as the commitment papers have been made out. The courtroom was crowded ' this morning, not a few women being pres-ent.. pres-ent.. ' I Frank P. Rose, who on Thursday last was found guilty of murder In the first degree by a Jury for the killing of his wife on Christmas day, was this morning morn-ing sentenced to be shot on Friday, April 2J..1904. by Judge C. W. Morse, in the criminal division of the District court. He took his sentence with the characteristic charac-teristic stubbornness which he has shown throughout the trial, merely, answering an-swering "All right," when the Judgment was pronounced upon him. Judge Morse ordered Rose to stand up for sentence and said r "Mr. Rose, you were charged by the information of the District Attorney with the crime of murder in the Arst degree. To this charge you declined to plead, and a plea of not guilty was entered en-tered for you. You were tried by a legal le-gal Jury, who after having heard all the testimony, returned a verdict of guilty as charged In the information Have you now any legal cause to show why Judgment should not be pronounced upon you on this verdict?" -No, sir," answered Rose, almost defiantly. de-fiantly. "Under the laws of this State the crime of murder in the first degree is punishable by death, either by being hung or being shot. You have your choice of these modes, and the right to make the election." - "I'll take the shot," said Rose, and in the same tone as the previous answer. "It is the Judgment of the court that you. Frank Rose, be remanded into the custody of the proper officials, who will take you to a safe and secure place and there be kept until Friday. April 22, 1904, and that on this day, between the hours of 10 o'clock In the forenoon and S o'clock in the afternoon, you will be taken inside the exterior walls of the State penitentiary and there be shot until un-til you are dead." Rose's face seemed to lighten up as this sentence was pronounced, and he answered almost smilingly, "All light." He was seemingly the calmest person In the courtroom, and seemed to be utterly ut-terly devoid of emotion. ' . |