Evening journal., 1892-05-27
STOUT STILL HOPEFUL.
Ditmore's Alleged Murderer
"Can Die Like a Man"
PRISONER FOR TwENTY-oNE YEARS.

PRISONER FOR TWENTY-0NE YEARS.
stout Is a Good Methodist and Is Ready
to Die-Jim Andrews Has Many Pet
Rabbits and Wants PensIon-Put In
Jail a Young Man. lie Is Now Gray
haired Man OF Fifty.
Yesterday afternoon an EVENING JouR-
NAL reporter visited Alfred Stout. the
negro who was recently found guilty of
the murder of Farmer George Ditmore Of
near Chesapeake City, Md Stout is con
fined in the jail at EllSton Md. awaiting
the action of the Court of Err ors and
Appeals TO which his case has been car
ried from the Court of Oyerand Terminer
of Hartford county TO which place the
trial was removed The grounds laid for
this appeal are that the jurors were sepa-
rated and that the verdict was contrary
70 the law and the evidence
The reporter found Stout in one Of the
cells upon the lower tier The first thing
that attracted the attention of the news
paper man was the following notice upon
the iron door.
"lf you must look at me, please don't
forget TO leave a dime ON the iron plate
below.
Stout was sitting i'm chair lust within
the door He is about five feet five
inche high dark but not black. with a
very intelligent face, pleasing manners
and ready address
Tho reporter introduced himself and
asked Stout II he would be interviewed
/ He said that he had no objection.
DO you hope for anything from the
Court of AppealsY yes l still live i'm
the hope that II will be better than ii Is
now. know that did not get Justice
In the trial
You still protest your innoconceg7
Yes, sir, ! am innocent of the crime
You say you were not around Dit.
more's place at the time of the murdorY0
IL was not. have not been on the place
for six years
You seem TO take the matter very
coollyg' 81 am not the least bit scared
or worried about IT, If there IS such
thing as death, ! can die like man and
! can die INNOCENT of the crime.
"Are you member Of churchY7 eyes
sir. am a Methodist"
DO any of the ministers visit vouq7
'Yes-Rev Mr. Thurston, the colored
preacher, and Father Carey the Catholic
priest.
How many lawyers have youY7
: ''fhree-Messrs. c. c. Crothers. Robert
} Thackery and George Manadier. They
have done everything in their power for
me-
How have you been treated sine
the trialy' "Oh. Sheriff McKennev mud
Deputy sheriff Harvey Macsey are very
5 kind TO me. get everything want and
5 am allowed To be ont of my cell twice n
day for am hour at a time. and some
D times longer than that
g 'How long have you been in iailg'
q cone year the hrst of last February p
O. ''Whero were you bornW 'ln Cecilfon
26 years ago. lived right around
Bohemia Manor My father and mother
are both living mt Chesapeake CITY |
g have "a wife and child, a little boy. / vear
y old. My mother brings my little boy To
j see me My wife does not come
! would hate for her 20 see me in place
Z like this
At this moment the reporter noticed a
e gray haired white man pacing restlesslv
4 up and down the corridor and asked Stout
! who II was He said: That's Jim
Andrews. Hes been in jail for twenty.
4 one years. You ought to 10 upstairs and
! look at his rabbits.
. The invitation was accepted. Andrews
n leading the way The cell was a roomv
e one but had a decidedly 'rabbity" smell
; that was far from agreeable The long.
a cared pets were jumping in every direc
I; tion and were fine specimens of rabbit
\ kinds. They We're English. Maltese and
= Spanish. One of them eyed the reporter
: and went scampering away. ever and
= anon humping the floor savagely with
n It's hind legs.
tlII,tt- lortfr Iarss ..,.. -. nit
the first question put at Andrews.
"Twenty-one years the sixth of next
y month. / was 20 years old when | wa.
first put In and now ! am 90 J."
What was your crime2 Assault with
! intent to commit rape upon Mary Wat
{ son. | got off on the plea Of insanity. s,
i they decided that ! could not run al
. large any more IL was all spite work
'lou have not been out of this build
! ing for twenty-one yearsyf
"a "Oh, yes, he said, laughing heartily
n rs 1t possible that you have never hearc
of James ii. Andrewsl Don't You re
member when two men broke Jail and ON,
Of them broke his leg jumping from the
s wall3'
a 'To be sure, answered the reporter
p with an inward spasm of his Httl,
e hatchet and cherry tree veracity
Is "Well, / was one of them Saw vol
n can't 60 down TO DIR. Jamars and ten hin
10 ] want TO see him2 I am applying for
s. pension. Here are my papers fough
IT i'm Company h.. Sixth Maryland Regiment
.t l served for two years and was disabled
a just as the reporter was expressing hi
regrets, a young negro and a white lbo,
walked into the cell The negro said ii
a stage whisper, TO the white boy:
is I'm goin' ter strike him fur none,
e 20 git a cigahg'
" And he did, but as fortune would have
n IL, he had left his well-hlled purse on the
he rosewood cabinet in the EvESrN,
a. JOURNAL office There is nothing lilS
n having rosewood cabinet and a clos
k, fist when you 60 into a county Jail.
~ Writ Took His Cows.
,o Thomas Maroney approached a reporte
is this morning and said Il want to sa
something concerning Officer Writ takinl
my cows this morning. Maroney then SAT-
=, that he was taking his cows TO water