Show SHOWN INNOCENT AFTER 24 YEARS confession of another clears southerner of murder for which he nearly died W IS HANGED AND SAVED spared from death by Seer seeming ning proal i 0 O derce and made to endure the s hardships hardship of yeara yeam in prison purvis miss consider the stranger casu case of it nian who baij for tile tho charge of murder spared front from death liy by sec seeming ining pro made to cu cn lure un the hardships of years yeara lu prison unit and ll a quarter efti af u century proved innocent will 1 I purvis la 19 tile ma with Ms wife and ihu five children lie ho Is quietly living on ills its little farina three buile tuile north of this town although pardoned for over twenty years lf he was under tins tile cloud of having killed at ai fellow man I 1 now hes hea tilt thu happiest person linthon world fur lie hns has just been told that joe joc board who recently died near coluin 10 tius hus miss confessed lie imd and not nob purvis was the of it huun named buckley for whose killing vis was vaa tried tiled convicted unchanged und hanged saved when rope broke purvis tin tilt hung mans noose when tin the rope willi chichi V lie he was MIS d broke t As AB lie full fell from tile tho trap of ati the gul gill tows lows 1 I 0 magee ran front from the scene unwilling to see one die who might perc perchance hunce be h innocent of if the IK crime for which lie wits wim to death and whom it became ills his offie lali duty auty to execute purvis run Is unable to cougras congratulations will eions but when shown tile the telegram from columbus lit in which tilt the confession of joe hoard Beard was tol tolland told dand and before he had time to read the item ho he asked who it was that hall confessed to the killing of anol mentioned three names eh giving ins among thern that of joo joe beard when hii informed form ed that it wits beard 21 X p 4 q said there were those in the th throng ong who could save his life alio ito had made confession lie he seemed not surprised not allowed to testify 49 As to the trial tit at columbus Coluin bua 4 said that lie ald ill not testify in lit hit 11 y own behalf it at that trial because lit hl if jl attorney forbade him film going upon tin the stand 1 I one time I 1 arose and started to the witness strind stand with etli htiu lit inck intention ution of telling my own story of tile the alleged murder but was stopped stop pod unit told that die WO case wai closed ho uld aid lie ile said bald that when after the trial 4 lie askel a bcd its ills ut attorney torney why lie he was not az ty T permitted to testify in lila his own behalf I 1 lie ho told frankly tile tho attorney atto iney did not wish to risk the lie grueling gruell ng of tit th prosecuting attorney for its his counsel thought thou glit lie iio was waa ile defending fending a gully guilty man M asked shot if it ani ans true hint alint when ott the scaffold lie ho addressed the throng v assembled there arid said there avre those in ili the throng who could if clivy would kavc his life because bec autu of tile their ir knowledge of his fits innocence lir he au air it Is |