Show HAUNTING DREAD OF GALLOWS DRIVES SLAYER INSANE DENVER Aug 5 A A haunting fear of the gallows has driven Harold Frank Henwood Kenwood insane and he has been transferred transferred trans trans- from the laundry of the state prison to the ward set apart for tor the criminal insane Ever since the night of May Mav 24 1911 when Henwood shot and killed Sylvester Tony Von Phul and George E. E Copeland and seriously John W. W wounded Atkinson during a drunken row in the bar room of ot U th tb Brown hotel this former former- society and and club man has held this same fear And at last his mentality has glyen given way and he is hopelessly insane accord according In to expert alienists aller Kenwood's Henwood's hallucination is that that that-he Ito he has electric wires in his head headS And despite despite de de- th- th spite the commutation of his sentence of death granted by the governor October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 16 1014 1914 he yet et holds to the belief belief belief be be- lief that he is to be hanged tor the for the killing of the two men he shot to death in D Denver nver five years ago HEnwood Kenwood has shown signs of or violent Insanity for fOI several months say the prison officials who have been keeping a close watch upon his movements A I year ear ago Dr I Lamoure of the prison medical staff recommended that Henwood Henwood Henwood Hen- Hen wood be given hard manual labor as asa asa asa a means of effecting a 1 cure of his mental mental mental men men- tal trouble It was thought that physical physical phys phs ical labor would duld clear his mind and produce sound sleep This treatment was tried but failed to produce the desired results The prisoner then was transferred to the green houses Then he heas was as given Il light ht work in the laundry It made no difference however in the mental condition where he worked or what labor he performed He lie tossed and tumbled all night moaning aloud and crying out many times that the electric wires in his head were WE're slowly i burning burning- him to death This continued j until the past week when he began beganI I to grow row violent and it became necessary j sary to confine him in the ward for forthe forthe forthe the criminal insane I Kenwood's Henwood's mental malady malad is not uncommon uncommon uncommon un un- un- un common to those who have ha been sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to death on a murder charge say the crimInologists The circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances of the killing are always before them after an exhausting trial such as Henwood Kenwood underwent upon two oc occasions occasions occasions oc- oc in Denver And Ard when the death sentence has been pronounced it may mayas as well have been executed say these experts so far as the mentality of ot the condemned Is concerned because he is never able to recover from the shock of the sentence Henwood Kenwood was waR first tried July 29 1911 two months after the date he shot Von Phul and Copeland to death He lie was charged with the killing of the first named and the verdict was murder in in inthe the second degree He lie appealed and a anew anew anew new trial was ordered by the supreme court February 3 3 1913 Henwood Kenwood being confined Ed in the county Jail during the time his case cae was under consideration In the higher tribunal He was placed on trial the second time in June 1911 the charge in that case ase being the slaying of George E. E Copeland who was a b bystander stander and was accidentally shot by Henwood Kenwood the last named was firing firing- his his' revolver at Von Phul The verdict In that case was first degree murder and he was sentenced to be hanged the week of November 1 I 1913 The su supreme supreme su- su preme court affirmed this verdict July 8 1914 a stay of execution 1 being granted during the meantime The higher court fixed the date of hanging for tor or the week of October 25 1914 After an unsuccessful appeal had been made to the board of pardons for fora a commutation of the sentence Henwood's Henwood's Henwood's Hen- Hen woods wood's friends prevailed upon the governor governor governor gov gov- to commute the sentence to life Imprisonment October 16 1914 on which date the slayer was taken to the penitentiary at Canon City It is said that his mother died In an Insane asylum and he has always said since the shooting that his mind is de de- de ranged |