| Show Town Crab Now Jaunty and A waiting His March To Chair He Kills Boys And Begs for Execution WHAT DO YOU THINK BECAUSE boys boy of ot j Okla delighted in teasing and pestering him C E Mar Mar- Marble Marble ble aged recluse shot Gilbert Hutchinson 14 to death ond wounded Roy nOY Hutchinson 16 Ho slightly wounded the th boys boy's Marble suspected the boys at killing his dog do and chasing away his cat This was WIlS Just before Christ ChrIst- ChrIstmas Christmas mas Tried on a murder charge Marble pleaded guilty JUdge Jud Charles S SIndall Indall of ot Cherokee Okla gave eav him his choice of ot a alife term in prison or a sentence Marble In scholarly English chos choso death Marble chuckled at tho th sight ot th bleeding bodies of ot his witnesses said Physicians hove have declared Marble sane sone Adults of ot Inger- Inger Ingersoll soll soll knew him as a kindly old man who took lowers to the and wanted only to be alone Should the death sentence be carrIed out out What hat do you think By lEA Service MALESTER Okla Feb 21 Halt a century too lato lat C E Marble is learning that people ore ready to gIve him their friend friendship ship Had he known as much 50 or 60 rears ago he might not bo be where he Is now now-In now In a death ot the Oklahoma penitentiary waiting waiting- for March IE 16 when he h will be b electro electrocuted lived In a a shack on a vacant lo lot In the town ot Inger- Inger Boll Inger-Boll where klio hOwal h the town crab Boy Dol mado mad his life miserable by him and killing his ls pots Finally he h killed one of ot two brother and tho other and their father He red begged Judge Judeo Charles to sentence him to death and his ro- ro re request quest was granted Now with death In the offing Marblo is friends every every- everywhere where From San Francisco to Doston people who never heard at him prior to his hll strange plea for electrocution are wrIting to him Many have to care for him the rest re t of his days day it the ot at Oklahoma sets hIm free Marble a crab no longer but rather jaunty and jolly through weird elrd mental reaction to deaths death's close approach is appreciative ot o the tho Interest tho th public Is taking in him He H still wants to so go to the th at the appointed time lime however Its an 80 fully of ot every every- body everybody Marble remarked with a smile I never ne dreamed I would stir up so much dust Imagine anyone to make an old worthless criminal like me m happy Dut Im I'm happy happier already already than ever eer before I r ask Just one on favor ot so- so society so society Kill me Im I'm ready this mInute to so go It this proves a lesion to boys In general Ill I'll f feel el I haven't and died in vain Its It's Just like the th old man to philosophize Marblo Is a H likes like to putt puff away at his and weighty questions Nearly who recounts some som experience with bad boys he went on I r like It shows how the th dust Ive I've up has set to studying Somo ot o them send lIend me m monc One girl in El EI Reno neno asked me to will her h r my fiddle No theres there's nothing Mad ad l rendezvous with death Inhabitants of at death row usually Bre moody and morose Their souls I wear down to the raw But Mar Marble ble with his whiskers and his i pipe Is 1 a typically laughing laughing- talk talk- talk old grandpa Of the th killIng tor which he awaits execution Marble Marblo speaks In Ina Ina a matter fact way Ho reters to It as my crime crim It seems It a great weight has sineI been lifted tram from my soul since I shot those boys he h commented is a man of Who he was wa and what he h did be- be tor be-tor tore he h appeared In a rickety shack In a a deserted lot lot he will not t tell ll saidI Ill tell you this much ho h said I was wa rallied rained in a 11 homo horn ot My father hated my mother and she hated him I hated my I rI never ne knew what Home Homo meant Even my little shack hack la In Ingersoll was not happy of at the th boys boy Several years o ag-o aro I visited the neIghborhood where I used to live But I didn't eo go near my sisters sister's house I knew I would not be bew w there That la Is all he h will say aay about himself In the th gray ry dawn of at March IS will be b electrocuted un less something Intervenes It I he b will be b liven ghen are a re reprieve e but nothing has haa beci bel said ot of the tb kind at the slate capitol yet yeL I will anything the public caR can do to prevent com com- commutation commutation mutation ot my sentence or ony delay Marble In the execution of It Mar Mar- ble ald 1927 NIA NI I a crab no but ther r Jaunty Anti Jolly |
