| Show I I HAD 1650 TO TOE 1 SAVE E DAYS OArS LIFE Attorney Who Defended Colored Man Did So Entirely Without Reward Now No that the tile hoard board of 01 pardons pardon hats han seen Ht St to lo commute the sentence n of or Al AI Albert bert bari T Der colored from the death penalty to 10 lift life Imprisonment nt for tor the his killing of Horace H Jr Voss Vo also aiM colored colo It will be lie of 01 Interest to reader reade of ot the theNe News New Ne to lea on something of the th hard struggle him bin It had ba S In itt the trial When be Day vr shot Von Toss h he was waa w less leAB lie He had but bait few tew friends here laere and those tho upon whom he could count had little or no money anoaI He Ue H had bad relative in tat Texas but bitt they were we poor r and unable tu to furnish the Ute mean with which to fight a criminal ornal ease case ca that meant lite III or ordath death dath to the tM n accused A murder trial usually cost coet a am small 11 fortune some tImeS e thousands anu Rn even hundreds hundred of ot thousand of et dollar dialler The Th average law lawyer IR yer in ill tatting taking a murder case cae expects expect a it abig big fee t fur for MB his time and 1011 talent talen and ha tin must moat have bay Ita money with witt to fight tight the tM prosecution for tor wll n court feet fees t tend and appeal IIII If It necessary When Vlen Albert T 1 flay Day was teas wa charged with murder in th that first tI dearee he lie had no money mussy with which tn to employ coun eel ael I Through the efforts effort of at two Salt Lake Ake Waller alter W Little wa ws Induced to take the vase cane He lIe was Wail HI RI s pointed to defend Day Da He lie U at once otto started to 10 work on un the case cae hut but found that the Ute colored imputation of or Franklin avenue wa was practically unanimously against th t the defense because It U Is I claimed of ot tsar ear of ot Mr Mu Vow o otIs Ally AUy AU Little Wrote to Days Day brothers brother in Tex rex Texas as for tor money with which to tight fight the th case awse They sent nl him the munificent sum um of or 1610 1640 Of if this enormous fee tr e Ally AUy Alt Little spent 1675 1 for tor This wa was every cent ent counsel for tor de tie defense tens got ot for tor defending a man whose Pile lite III hung In the balance VICTORY ICTOR ACHIEVED hay Day after atter day the case calO dragged ulong aln conviction cant came and with It the loath death sentence but still the unequal tight went on The matter wax was carried to tab I the I It supreme court on appeal and nd allah again the Ih defense dern suffered a reverse Then cams came the light fight before the th board of f pardons sad and nd again a in the condemned man mall was Ws denied hope hOI Another hear laser hearing hearIng ing was Wit granted ranted anal ami the death sentence changed to Imprisonment ant for tor life lite The dramatic lIra mal i scene before the board of ot pardon Is III still melt fresh In the tm minds of ot the but nothing nan hat been Mia sata of nt the th tb uphill right fight that wa was made to save Days 1 life lit by his bin faithful attorney Without Wit bout funds funda with nearly every evry wit wll ness nesi against him and with a tence of ot death Imposed he saved Haved the life lite of or Ills hIs client and nd none will begrudge him him the congratulations he Is itt now flow h hIn Ing In |
