| Show I WITHOUT A HEART H I I HANGS NINETYNINE MEN I longest long record of or HE belongs tl I T tiona eer T oWL Firt rIt In III just justy I y yearn earli ninetynine mm mid nd that little town in fl hinc the tha wont tin till we W thY julge sentenced Ono et erF ele Vf ha hall Ihm Beside les those thoMe tho t he sell sen cf or I other who escaped e end d penalty from rom flu reu reut the lie Mitt lIt t in III tI tho the trial of lIr 35 men mell n murder HC lie w wM was so eO stern ot of thO In Ji M hili hI um overran Hi Ih Indian Territory i ho men is t to Irl W 19 1 he grow to bo IJO r everywhere na III fl tho man without naff no 11 heart hear a wn Judge Jud e leono C Thle district of ot western t f the t tO 10 W lort 1011 Smith In 1875 to 10 It Itt It went ven t Ue e ciU In the tho Indian Tar Tel in Iii th lit at with the ft Kit s men anti and the tho worst Srm the th west ever pel knew n but the th sternest t law lM rig d di enforced by bi y the government of ot tho i I states State had hI ha the lea t effect a them th Congress had hati provided u all aU from the Ih territory should KhouM 31 a Fort ort This rills arrange te t until Sept 1 I 1696 when ment Rave gave Jurisdiction of oC Indian r s various Judicial ills rin eases I In T within the territory Judge was VaS e to tho belief telle that ho hu was waK wa so BO strict f general to t be Inhuman In hl hilt but lack Inch of ot ym sym II H and thre th re wan 1111 no doubt that ho hI hIas hacas l He Ito was WIlK a n kindly cas as Parted Marled man mall n hut 1111 ho hn knew kne that It was wasiS iS the application ot o luv that would ultimately conquer nd subdue the theAle JS Ale element Hint tiu held heki sway In that of or the tho southwest Speaking if d the tM more mort than Ihan IGO men ho lie had hail pen ell n to 10 the during his Jit jil Si We Ufe at Fort foort Smith Judge Parker Mid Id or Ol OJ IllS ins People have hae paid Paul to me ne You iou are He Hethe the J dlf who hung so many men Hut mr my answer anwer has been It Is IA not I 1 who bunS tuns them It Is the law I never lIever bunC hun a II L IOnn People Pt who say Kay I am ant cruel ruel do not hot understand how I J nm ant I nm am the thc most ent ente t e ii ot men then I am nm however proud of ot otIbe the Ibe record I 1 hilo made ilia tie I believe bellec It Itha ha has checked a Ii flood tl oil of oC crime I think the courts of ot the country cOlin try are rt t III it blame for or the thousands ands tf murders yearly committed III In th the pMt past live hive years ear he was talking In Ih JI 4 persons havn been murdered la III this country Thin This fearful condi condl condition ton tion One loe not exist because our laws are nrc defective We have hao the must t mug mas system stem In the world Tho Thu trouble Is lit that the tho Bench Hench looks to the th hado In tn the shape chape of or technicalities 1 Instead n tead of or to the tho substance In tho the form orn of ot t There Is too much nuch Yes they the say nay I t am cruel but they forget forret that fur for years I 1 had to tl intend contend with the tita crimes of or the worst body tody of oC ruffians the United States ever eer had ad They Were brutes or demons demonsi i In human hupton form Corm Their crimes crIme were de literately and fiendishly ox n x xicute They worn Iro men of tiC the most mo t character to dc IC deen twy en honor hoMr and honesty In my lay jurisdiction alone 63 65 6 United I tam tatt have hare been r J Ji i while ohlIe to their duties dulles WIN WINn Vii n WIlO connected with the Star gang rif a man titan who ho boasted that ho lie hud hul l 23 2 people was one ono of or the tho men 1 I ed to hang hanu It was vas II no Ito cruelty to do this In III view Ie of ot his record On Onor of or the early cases s that came before mo me moU wag vae U that of ot n a young Chattanooga phy who moved movel wont with his hili youns oun and nil and II located In the tue Arbuckle moun mountain tain tal mI Two negroes Will who haunted tin the th neighborhood waylaid tho tito doctor and tied him him to a 11 treo Ire tre leaving him him th r to starve stare Ho Ito could nut not freo Cleo leo elt und did lid starve stare there The Tho villains Ih n went vent to tho the little home among the tic trees whore where the young Alfo Iro was an tho the return of ot her hut lius hu bund find told her that he ito had Ind fall 1 front from a n boulder high up UI among the tho mountains and amI hud had broken his leg le Ie leIh They Ih would guide her to him Who Sho wend with them ant and to her death for fot 01 they killed her antI and threw her Into lIP lIPold old well welt 60 feet tet deep deop Months after ward her skeleton was Willi as found on lid One o otha othe othe the tha murderers boosted of ot his crime toni was sooth noon captured CONDEMNS lINS Judge Parker condemns In unmeasured tired terms lerms the tue maudlin that leads women to carry flowers Dowers anti ami to much criminals fhe o ladles mean well seli he te said sall There Thera In la no doubt of that Hut But what mistaken goodness flack Back of oC tho the sen Jen are lire tho the motives of oC Jilt and charity sadly They see lIeo e the tue atone perhaps chained In iii his cell They The forget the th crime Crittie ha he perpetrated There Is la lop much mitch of this kind of oC nil all over oel tho tha country Judge Parkers court held heW session Fe slon lasting from tram 8 S In the until lArk hark There Thero was so o much crimi criminal nal ital business the court had hat to 10 work vore fhe The Jailer and hangman were naturally bliP men The Tha wal 1 T D Derry Heln n to brother of DC United Unite States Senator Berry Herr of oC Arkansas The hl vas os George Ceorge Lawson Ia i depot deputy deput ty t marshal lJ the two thy had hail l hought hundreds of nf o yards of oC ropi rop for tOI und anti knew the kind that would do itO the gruesome work without bron brIll king kins kingo Wo o buy hll tope ropes that are ropes Jailer Herry Herr Those Tho 1 who lio try tu to hang men and Alit let no ropes lupes break brenk ns as the tue trap falls falis ought to 10 be Indicted It Is their business bu to see POO that the top rop i aio o strung strong stron enough and the tho only oni way ova they th ran do It Is IB by hy testing 1 them with a as aA we ova do Ao We c dont ont run any iny In risks Tito Tho topes lopes are art with hit 1111 f seed seed oil before being on a II utah man In addition to the tests test they the got get I t train from rom the tho dummies People write me from front nil ait over oer the United d StateN for tor pieces of ot rope tope we have hn l hn men with and nn pieces of the tho gallows on which they uro ore stretched We cant oblige nil ull people und anti we dont try because no nu noman man Is III made any nn better hetter by b handling grishey objects George the Fort Smith hang man I nfl Ii had lie d pulled pui led tho t ii o Iron pin uin that droll droo drooped dro ii lied ped nearly men to death He lie oit known far tI tit and wide us as the man who ever eer pulled a trigger from under i io i criminal He lie said paid the nm tints ho did It he lie dreamed dr lImed about the man for or weeks rd hut he soot soon got Rot over oer that und tint eared cared nothing for assisting In Iii pulling the tho hardened characters sentenced nt ut Fort I ort Smith Hu HI really thought he us doing tilling them a 1 fa fit favor CI oar vor or Ho lie had hanged five 00 men mell at one ont time and never as all they III e who nhoi ho through the trap and struggled n a liCe few minutes until relieved by IJ unconscious H It I U on who uvito ho pulled tho trigger on the Blick gang the tue toughest t wet set of oC men In hI the tue southwest Five of 41 them were strung up 11 at title one time They The wore CIt purl hurt RIll and part negro nn their leader was suo k Nobody knows known how many people they lid did kill or how many mallY they the committed lI |
