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Show DOOMED MAN'S LAWYER MAKES LAST APPEAL Doctors Convinced Harvey W. Church Is Mental Suicide BPRINOF1EL.O. III.. Mar t. (By the Associated Press) Aiieeim? th": hanging of Harvey W. Church In Chi-; cago Is to be a '"public spectacle for; which invitations have been Issued' j Altorney Frank J Tyrrell of Chicago,! appeared here today as "an American citisen" before Governor Small with another plea for clemency for the condemned con-demned man. The hanging of Harvey W. Chan li the l.iwyi . H.I. has becune a pllti ai Issue in Crok county, "li is a part of the campalgfi for sheriff of f'hief1 Deputv Laubenheimer'.' he declared. j Departure of Governor Small 10 r j Kankakee .'it noon tdday shattered the 1 11 hope for Church, accordlr"? to Judge C H. Jenkins of the depart- i ment Of public welfare. The attitude j of the governor, it was said, is that, ho has already acted, and that tho-i law must take its coursp. LA SI IPl'EAL CHICAGO. March 2. An attorney; was making hlw last .tand in federal j court In behalf of Harvey XV. Church. Physloians made final tests of the roomed young man today and un-uiiunced un-uiiunced that they were convinced he v. .1 -. not shamming, it hau in . n an-nounced an-nounced thai Church commlttt 'i inon-tal inon-tal suicide." Justice (jrin N. Carter of the state supreme court yesterday denied a petition pe-tition for si writ of mandamus to compel com-pel Judge Klckham Bcanlaft to grant! a l it ol 1 n or po that an appeal might , 1 1 iKtn to a higher court . The same petition u;ls placed Ufore Koder.il imlgc Carpenter today to save Church from hanging at 4 o'clock tomorrow s fternoon. 1 DI VI M CH Willi R I Church Ilea in the death chamber 1 of the Cook county Jail, apparently oblivious to ilfe and the fate that awaits him. Dr. 11. 1 Davis, professor of mental I dlccase at the University of Illinois and Dr. Clarence a. Neymantf, superlnten-dent superlnten-dent of the Chicago poycbophthlc hos-1 pital. roappUod 1 number of scientif-i io tests but there were no reactions1 to Indicate anv mentality, in IP ABLE rio "The question as I sec It," said Dr. Davis, "is whether Church Is shamming. sham-ming. It Is i" opinion that he Is. not that ho cannot. No matter what' hla original motive may have been. Church Is now Incapable of a volun-tarv volun-tarv act." Dr. Neymann said: "Aside from the question whether ("hurch Is sane or insane we confront' this condition; he Is now Incapable of receiving any Impression, any communication com-munication from the external world lib sensorlnm is veld of outside con-tact. con-tact. He Is incapable of performing Bliy voluntary act And I defy any man to say that Church is capable ol" talking." Church will be placed In a chaii tomorrow afternoon and curried to the scaffold The noose will be adjusted, ad-justed, the chair placed on the trap and the chair will fall when the trap lis sprung. |