Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1893-12-13
,AINTER WILL HANG
-es GOV. ALTcEL0 lNTERPosEs
 EXECUTIVE cLEMENcY.
a.,., inc Prisoner Created sensa- hv Asking That He Be Placed
 finder Hypnotic Influence.

Nithin the shadow ol ehe galloWs o Cook county jail on the north George H. Painter is his name, ,lnless Coy. Altgeid should inter- |executiyeclemeney before Friday hing. and of any such intention l. Ire no indications today, his I'm pay forfeit for the crime for l, he was convicted and sen ,d to behanged. This was the Aer of Alice Martin, a women whom he had lived several years k wife, and the crime was com bd on Sunday, May r, 1891 h the day ofhis arrest and up to Bresent time Painter has always 4ly protested his innocence, and Re trial the evidence was purely mstantial. He is the son of a &prominent Methodist preacher Rw York, now deceased, but the kpfs which he learned in his boy I days were soon fOrgotton. 6rst employment was as a clerk fooklyn, and after trying the occupation for while in Chi  Se turned his attention to gam q and became a sporting man Il town in every sense of the d, His agreeable presence and Rating manner made him a favor Eth the women whose taste were His own, and out of his many |nintance he chose Alice Martin fparamour. The two, lived to- er on the west side of the city, Be life they lead was not a nat Enor a happy one and quarrels Zen the two were frequent. It 4laimed at the trial that he had 0nly lived on the wages of her ae but had beatened and threat to kill her for not supplying him {Rs much money as he needed. Circumstances surrounding the (er were involved in mystery. hi is known is that on the Sun Night in question Painter came W his room and yelled to the IS in the otherparts of the build [lat his wife had been murdered. |. H the neighbors rushed to the Hthey found the woman lying Dnthe floor. Her body had been y gashed and mutilated, and Eas blood all over the floor and
 walls. Painter notified the and professed to go prostrated Fhe affair. Suspicion was di- against him, however, and he frested. A few days later the lat which he always wore pund in a closet literally satu- n blood. On the trial he at ed to prove an alibi, and wit were called who said he had
 ne day and night up to mid
 the west side saloon. The
 of the house, however, swore
 ey had heard him quarreling le woman some time before he le alarm, and that they had
 n acting suspiciously about Pldlng earlier in the evening.
 promptly convicted, and upon Pfought into court for sentence
 sensation by asking Judge
 to grant him a twenty min
 Yate interview, saying that
 given the ear of the Judge
 u never be hanged. The re-
 as refused and sentence was
 The case was taken to the
 Court, where the verdict
 lrmed and the date for the ph set for tomorrow. Re
 alhter created something of
 ton by trying to induce the
 'ies to demonstrate his in-
 or guilt by putting him un- |lptlc influence. He appealed
 F besant, Prof. Carl Sextus,
 Fosophlsts and hypnotists in
 oi the country, but without
 Within a few weeks he
 ah appeal to be made to the
 7 sanction the experiment.,
 Ahaustiye examination of the
 Jailed to develop any pre-
 of granting such a request.
 Idea has been based upon
 eilments of Dr. Charcot in
 i'' Il a man was guilty of a
 0oild under hypnotic in-
 made not only to confess
 'o describe the surrounding
 ~,' ppees down to the slightest
 The condemned man has all
 '.:enuously ': insisted that such
 'iment would demonstrate
 innocence of the crime.