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Show YOUNG MAN PAYS DEATHTCNALTY Maintains Innocence of Murder of Sweetheart and Prays for Trial Judge Paris, Ark., July 15. Maintaining, his Innocence, Arthur Tillman aged 22 years, was hanged In the Jail yard here today for the murder of bis sweetheart, Amanda Stephens. 19 yehrs o'd whose body was found, burled bur-led in an abandoned welt at Delaware, Dela-ware, Ark., last March. Tillman was carried from his cell. He knelt In impassioned prayer'-or the trap door for fifteen minutes 'beforo 'be-foro the hanging. In the prayer, which was uttered loud enough for the witnesses to hear Tillman asked forgiveness for tho trial Judge, mho he said was responsible for the death of an Innocent boy, and for the sheriff sher-iff who conducted tho hanging. A company of mtlltlhmcn formed a circle about the jail all night the ofdclals fearing nn attempt by Tillman's Till-man's friends to rescue him. ssi |