| Show DEATH SENTENCE HANGS OVER MAN FOR TWO DECADES dad herron convicted of murder in 1508 1908 Is s hermit of prison trenton N F Y For forsaken soken by friends relatives lees sixty biln eye old ar arund arand elite herron convict no mo nt at the new jersey state prison here la Is alv living as a hermit among 1623 1523 hi inmates mates upon certification to the lie presiding judge of tile alie oyer and court of middlesex county proving ills his sanity the hermit herni lt of the prison would be re sentenced to tile die in the electric chair front from which lie ho wits ans snatched twenty years ngo berron still lives in the shadow of the death house where lie he was corn com fined filled for a year two decades ago for tile the killing of samuel it II U D a clergy clergyman miLn of now kew brunswick for revenge according to prison guards prichett who was then it local judge sentenced faerron to jail for n month believing that lint lie he was wronged herron mi alib 1 0 was a blacksmith shot prichett jon on the street in new brunswick in 1008 wardens forget him state officials are loath to inter fere in ller ferrous rons case except when their memory Is refreshed they li have anve fol forgotten gotten nil about him film ilia 1114 rec records ads at the prison are mellow with ageo age and lust dust laden there Is n tender feeling at the prison among t the lie few guards who really know Arch archie le herron twenty years ago after a sensational trial in which Iler rons sanity was questioned ills his execution was stayed until the he further order of the court by the late supreme court justice james J bergen justice nr ris A fl living as a hermit I 1 gen who pronounced tile the sent sentence ence ot of death on tierron after the jury had returned a verdict of first degree murder was positive that the murderer was insane at the time of the crime two reprieves were granted find and two were allowed the alie last one virtually making herron a life prisoner MM ugh in the eyes of the law lie he is still guilty of 0 murder it if sane perron was was sentenced E july 28 1909 and received nt at tile the state prison july 31 to die in september 1008 1908 tile first stay in the roun of the legal light fight was granted Sept naner 2 IMS 1909 hy by the late chancellor atney new Sin sentence tence passed A new sent sentence enec was imposed on january 25 1009 but the late gov john W V fort on the following day granted a reprieve arid and on the following Feb february puary 24 a further reprieve ei extending tending to starch march 2 29 governor fort fon after the alie expiration of the reprieve ordered the preparation for berron s electrocution to beo begin n about an hour and n half after the governors ordet reached the prison justice bergen issued nn an order for nil au inquiry into the mental co condition of berron ind on juno june 2 following directed enoth er stay stopping nil all proceedings until the further order of t the lie court justice bergens Ber gons order was the ast tn alon taken in of herron recorded nt at the prison alienists examined the prisoner but prison records fall to say whether faerron was ever declared officially insane Ar archie archile clile berron lives like a recluse submerged among hundreds of other prisoners including lifers lie ile sit sits in c ills his cell rend reads and smokes ocen nally lie he will sing but no one understands der stands tile he angs |
