Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-04-20
ALLEN HARRISON,
The Cabeii County Murderer, Sentenced
to Hang July ist.

The trial of Allen Harrison, the
wretch who foully murdered Miss
Bette Adams at her home near
Ona in Cabell county, by shoot
ing her down in cold blood because
she refused to marry him, was con-
cluded last Wednesday and the
jury brought in verdict of muir
der in the first degree. The first
Friday in July (the first day of
the monthly has been SIT as the
day for the execution. In SEN
fencing the doomed man Judge
Harvey used the following Ian
guage:
"Allen Harrison, | had hoped
that my term of office would ex-
pire without my being called to
pronounce tho death penalty on u
fellow being.
II do not wish to make any ex-
tensive remarks either TO you or
about the case that | have tried.
You have been defended as ably
as | have ever had case to be de-
Tended before me since / have
been upon the bench. There has
been everything made out of your
case that was possible to have been
made, much more than | really
thought could have been made out
of the case when we went into il
from what little / had heard of il.
You have had "A trial by twelve of
your countrymen. The most of
these jurymen / know personally.
| was pleased when | saw them put
in the box, because i knew they
were intelligent men, because |
know all of them and know them
to be honest and faithful men who
would, do their duty. You have
had trial, as impartial a one az
tho court could possibly give you.
All the evidence that could possi
bly, bear upon your case, which
was offered, was, as far as the court
was concerned, admitted TO the
jury; he so understood the law
and allowed everything that was
offered in your behalf. You were
aTraigned here, though, for one of
the most terrible crimes that ever
happened in this country. You, a
young, able and robust man, ar
raigned and placed before that jury
TO answer for the murder of "A
weak, lovely and beautiful young
girl, VINO it was claimed that you
loved as n sweetheart, tender and
fragile; yet the evidence shows
that your love had turned to hate,
and, without any provocation, shot
her down in cold blood. Not only
shot her down, but when she was
struggling in the death throes, put
the pistol TO her back and shot her
the second time. That was n ter
rible deed even III an unciviliZed
country; but here in the county
of Cabell, where its citizens think
1t is one of the most civilized, one
Of the fairest and best counties in
the State, the crime was too horri
BILE 10 talk about.
"That poor girl has gone TO her
God, not to live out the life that
was given her, but was snatched in
the bloom of her young woman
hood, without moment to pre-
pare for death. You, after long
and tedious trial, after everything
that learned and able counsel
could do for you, the jury in pass
ing upon your case could not find
it in their hearts 10 say that you
ought not 10 be punished with the
extreme limit Of the law; would
not even recommend that you be
sent to the penitontiary during
your life (that is question for
them and not for the court 10 de-
termine), and then brought out
this verdict against you, of mur-
der in the first degree, without rec
ommendation. And while il il a
painful, very painful, duty for
me 90 consign a man 10 death, yet
the law makes it my duty. / hope
that the short time that you have
to live you Will employ it so you
may live hereafter, If such can be
done. The preachers tell us that
there is always hope, and | hope
there may be in your case.
"The judgment Of the court is
that the sheriff of this county
shall, on Friday, the first day OF
July, take you and hang you by
the neck until you are dead dead
dead ="
For number Of fyears ] have
been subject to violent attacks OF
/ innammatOry rheumatism winch