The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-06
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Thorpe, The Boy Murderer, Sentenced
10 Die June 80.

he Sheds Tears over His Fate and
Says It's Hard to Be Killed Before
His Time-only a Dozen Persons
Present at the Solemn Scene-JudRe
Falligant Urges Thorpe to Prepare
to Meet His God-The Execution to
Be Private.
Samuel Thorpe, alias Sammy de Kid, 4"
has only twenty-five more days to live
Judge Falligant yesterday resentenced
Thorpe to be hanged Friday, June 30, be-
tween o'clock in the morning and 4
o'clock in the afternoon.
When the youthful murderer of Charles
Brinson was brought into the court room
at 40 o'clock to hear mis- final doom there
We're not over a dozen persons present
including the officers of the court, and
the scene was a solemn one. The absence
of the usual morbidly curious crowd at a
death sentence rather unnerved Thorpe
and he showed his disappointment at the
rooms deserted appearance by change
Of oountenance when he looked up into
the vacant gallery.
DISAPPOINTED THE CURIOUS.
Judge Falligant had fixed the time of
sentence for the purpose of disappointing
those who seem to take delight in
crOwding to a court room to hear a fellow
being condemned to an ignominious death.
II was expected that Thorpe would be
disposed of at the opening of the court,
and shortly after 9 clock negroes began
to crowd upstairs into the gallery until
at 10 o'clock it was packed to an ex-
tremely uncomfortable degree.
But when Judge Falligant called the
civil docket and began the mOnotOnous
proceeding of assigning cases the cOlored
spectators grew tired and started to leave
in attachments. Some remained, how
ever, until this part of the programme
was finished, in the hope that Thorpe
would show up at the end, but when
Judge Falligant left the bench at l O'Clock
and the array of lawyers retired they
made up their minds that
the death sentence had been postponed
and left the court house mad with them
selves for having sat through the morn
ing's dull routine.
THE DOOMED MAN CRIES.
AS soon as the room was cleared the
judge sent for the prisoner. Thorpe ar
rived before the writing of the sentence
was finished and had to undergo the
ordeal of several minutes delay. Those
minutes must have seemed hours to the
boy murderer and no doubt a flood of
thoughts about his past criminal life
which had led him there crowded into
his mind in that brief space of time
Thorpe gazed out of one of the windows
with a wistful look and tears began to
well up in his eyes. He tried hard to re-
gain his composure, but the effort only
showed more plainly his nervousness, and
as he passed his right hand over his face
a few times as if trying TO shut out some
unpleasant sight the spectators expected
him to break down.
Judge F'alligant's command in solemn
and measured tones, Samuel Thorpe,
stand up" seemed to awaken the muir
derer from dream. He rose from his
chair slowly, bracing himself with his left
foot well forward, and looked
appealingly at the judge through a pair
of eyes dimmed with tears. His chin
quivered and he grasped it with his right
hand in vain effort to steady himself.
ADVISED TO PREPARE.
Judge Falligant was brief 'EIt is
very sad duty to me, indeed" said the
judge, "to sentence to death again man
of your youthful age, but you deserve
it. hope that you have prepared your
self to meet your God | will not repeat
what | said to you on the occasion of
your former sentence, but 1 trust you
will meekly and submissively make peace
with your God and meet him repentant
for your crimes" Then followed the
usual form of sentence.
Thorpe walked back to Sheriff Romans
Office signing audibly, and while Deputy
Sheriff Simmons was cutting his hands be-
hind his back the murderer said ut is
hard thing to kill a man before his
time" While going back to Jail, taking
his last walk on Savannah's streets,
Thorpe cried and bemoaned his fate. The
execution will be private. Only court
officers, physicians and newspaper men
will be allnMed TO witness il.