The Forrest City times., 1895-08-16
cHERokee eIL. SENTENCED.

His Many Crimes-ss May God. Whose
 Laws You Have Broken. and Before Whose TribaaaI You Mast Appear. Have Mercy on Year SouI.'
 FoET SMITH. Ark. Aug. I2-Tne ] large court-room in the federal build- ing was inadequate to accommodate
 the immense throng that tried to gain
 admission this morning in order to
 hear Judge Parker's remarks while sentencing Cherokee Bill The cor riders and lobbies were packed with those unable to gain admittance. while. 1 the street in front was crowded with people satisfied to even get look at
 the criminal Promptly at 9 o'clock Judge Parker rapped for order. and
 the prisoner was ordered to stand up.
 Asked if he had anything to say why
 sentence should not be passed upon
 him, Cherokee Bill replied quietly: ''No, Sir"
 During Judge Parker's remarks the condemned man stood looking out of the windows At the close he chuckled ] and sat down. He was sentenced to
 be hanged Tuesday. September 10. No tice of an appeal to tine supreme court was given by his attorney. Judge
 Parker addressed the prisoner as fol- lows:
 Crawford Goldsby. alias Cherokee Bill. you have been convicted of the murder Of Lawrence Heating. Under the law 1t becomes the duty of the court to pass upon you the sentence of the law, that sentence which the law says shall follow conviction of the crime of murder. The crime you have committed is but another evidence. If any were needed. of your wicked, iSwiess. bloody and murderous disposition IL
 is another evidence of your total disregard of human life; another evidence that you reyel in the destruction Of human life. The many murders you have committed and their reck- less and wanton character. show you to be human monster, from whom the innocent peo- pie can expect no safety. The killing of Law renee Heating shows three wicked and un- provoked murders that we know you have con- mitted. II reports speak the truth. two or three more innocent human beings have been robbed of their lives by you.
 DEATH or A MARTYR.
 ''The evidence in this case shows that you
 most wantoniy and wickedly stole the life o, brave and true man; that he died by your mur- oerous hand martyr at the post of duty while oravely guarding you and the desperate crim- lnas Tn the jail with you. You Rickcdly slew him in your mad attempt to escape that you might evade the punishment justly due for your many other murders and robberies. It was no doubt concerted movement between you and many O, the other murderers in the jail 10 effect
 an escape You were lawfully confined in the 1 United States jail for murder and robbery The evidence shows that by some wicked agency-it is difficult to tell what that agency IS or who IL was-you had weeks ago obtained
 revolving pistol and many cartridges: that i you concealed the same in your mattress l awaiting an opportunity 10 do the deadly act 1 you did do. The time came. to Lawrence l heating the fatal hour struck, and you, with ' rft-r swa . ] ana wicked way, shot down poor Lawrence i Heating. one of the guards at the prison. while l De was faithfully discharging the duty in the 1 station he hlied to peace. to order. to the se- ] curity of human life, to the supremacy of the i law and to his country. He died like l brave soldier. He gave up his life rather than l Tall 10 perform his duty. You ordered
 him to throw up his hands. to surrender to 1 you, a murderer and bandit The brave and 1 honest man was no doubt startled. He was 1 shocked. But he never quailed And because i ne did not surrender to you, that you might es- l cape yourself and lead the host of other crim- inals to escape Judgment, you. with your mur- derous hand. directed by mind saturated l With crime, while he was gallautly and bravely upholding the laws of his country. shot him to death. He was minister of peace: you were
 and are minister of wickedness. of disorder of crime. of murder
 | Lawrence Heating was in the discharge of | 7 l bullet destroyed the life of gallant and brave | man, who died like true citizen and faithful l on1cer. He dled as gallantly and bravely as fl l he had given up his life for the flag upon the l battlefield. His family deserves as we'll of his | country, and of every lover of peace and order l as though he had so died. He died at the hand ! Of an assassin, at the hand of the wicked man 1 Of crime. You have taken the life of a good l man, who never harmed you: of faithful citi- | zen. kind father and a true husband. Your 1 wicked act has taken from home its head; | from family its support. You have made | weeping widow. Your murderous bullet has | made four little sorrowing and helpless or- | phans, But you are the man of crime and you | heed not the walls and shrieks of a sorrowing | and mourning wife no more than you do the | cries for dead father of the poor little or | phans.'
 | SWIFT JUSTICE DEMANDED
 Surely this is case where all who are not | criminals or sympathizers with crime should
 approve the swift and certain justice that has | overtaken you. All that you have done has
 done has been done by you in the interest of
 crime in furtherance of wicked criminal | purpose. The jury in your case
 have properly convicted you: they are l to be commended for it, and for the | promptness with which they did it. You have
 had a fair trial. notwithstanding the howls and | shrieks to the contrary There is no doubt of | your guilt of most wicked. foul and unpro- | voked murder. shocking to every good man and | woman in the land. Your case is one where | justice should not walk with leaden feet Ii | should be swift. 1t should be certain As far
 as this court is concerned 1t shall be, for pnblic
 justice demands it, and personal security de- | mands it.
 .If Lawrence Heating had thrown up his
 hands and surrendered to you he might have | lived but tnere is telling how many other l innocent and brave human lives would have