Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-06-03 | Page 1 | Darrow to Make Good Son's Promise Old Pledge Will be Carried Out

1 I 11 fl Darrow to Make Good Sons Son's on S Promise o o- o o o Lawyer to Aid Condemned Slayer Old Pledge Will ViII ill B Be Carried Out r I JJ i A Note Note Presented Written by 1 Aged Is f. f I I I I Woman CHICAGO June Juno 3 3 Clarence AP AP Clarence Darrow has agreed to use his ef efforts efforts er- er forts on behalf of or a condemned Yen Vermont ont slay slayer r and thus make good d made by Darrows Darrow's son to the condemned mans man's family tw twentythree twentythree n- n ty-three ty years years ago An yellowed age-yellowed paper Induced t time the e noted Chicago defender who las has all aU but but butr r retired from law pr practice ct c- c t tice ce again to employ his skill InI in behalf of one facing death for mur mur- der er It Il was given i en In 1904 1304 tl to Arthur Cooley then thea and now chef che a at Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth college Hanover N. N H IL by Paul Darrow the lawyers lawyer's son Young Datrow Darrow was attending the colIe college c and while driving Ing his horse and buggy bugbY ran down and killed Cooleys Cooley's year old old 6 son Moved by bythe bythe bythe the grief f of the child's childs mother Paul gave Cool Cooley Cooly y a note which said It U Ite Ue 11 e eer er any member of the D Darrow family can be of aid ld to any member of ot your family you have only have only to ask I arid and the service will be rendered Last m month mth year old clarence Glarence Darrow visiting his sons son's alma mater delivered an address urging abolition of capital l punishment Afterwards Afterwards Afterwards Af Af- Af- Af he was approached by by- bya a white-haired white woman who pressed upon him the note Paul had mad writ writ- ten My ty y nephew Is John C. C Winters she said and they found him guilty of killing a a. girl at Windsor Vt H He was sentenced to the electric chair I know mow he is innocent and I know that you ou are probably the he one man sufficiently skilled in ij-i the law to save save him will you do It Will WUl you make good the promise of yo your r son And of course I told her I would Dan Darrow w said today explaining explainIng explain explain- ing lag that he had not yet seen the record of ot the trial I I I I