The San Francisco call., 1896-11-25

the testimony adduced at the trial, and
am satisfied no honest, conscientious, fair
minded jury could have arrived at any
other conclusion. In the business
of your conviction the court ex-
presses its full concurrence. You
have had an absolutely fair and
impartial trial. and your guilt was estab-
lished beyond any reasonable doubt.
There are no circumstances known 10 the
court or appearing in the evidence which
in the slightest degree tend 10 mitigate
the atrocity of your crime. The murder
by you of Mrs. Greenwood was wanton,
malicious, cruel and without the slightest
excuse or semblance of palliation. have
no desire to harrow your feelings or 20 add
pang to your conscience but do suggest
III ali earnestness IN view OF what be-
lleve to be your certain doom to lay aside
the disregard You seem TO entertain as 10
your present surroundings and the awful
death that awaits you, and to seek forgive
ness from the God who made you.
The judgment of the law and the SEN
tence of the court is, that you, William NJ.
Roe, be taken hence BY the Sheriff OF this
county OF Napa. and by him detained and
securely kept in the county jail in sad
county OF Napa until such day as shall be
hereafter designated and fixed by the
court In the warrant of execution to be
issued herein, and on the said day so
NSS.S ohQ HASA iAt hoitubAi ohN
between the hours therein named, that
you, William NJ. Roe, for the wilifu, de-
liberate and premeditated murder of Mrs.
John q. Greenwood, and within the walls
or yard of the county jail OF said county
OF Napa or some convenient place
in this county, be, by the Sheriff of said
county of Napa aforesaid, hanged by the
neck until you shall be dead, and may
God have mercy on your soul. !"
THANK you' said Roe.
Later the death warrant was signed and
{ he 15 h day of January. 1897, between the
hours of 10 and O'Clock, was fixed as the
DAY of the execution.
At the conclusion of the court proceed
ings CALL representative was admitted
to the Jail and for over an hour had con-
versaiion with Roe. When first seen the
prisoner was sitting on box reading q
French novel. He seemed much inter-
ested in the story, but manifested but lit
tie interest in the fact that he had just
been doomed to die.
II feel a little queer" said Roe. IA
person naturally woul1. 1t is something
that don't happen 10 man every day.
The Judge sald l ought to consider the
sentence just passed upon me. ] do con-
slider il seriously but | have so trained
| myself that | can talk one thing and
mean another; but to tell the truth l did
| not feel very sorry for myself. / would
and have him receive sentence of death.
Now there is odd Wall, he has been kind
to me and / would be twice as sorry to
have judgment of death passed on him
than to receive it myself"
A person could not doubt that Roe cared
little regarding himself No mantle ia
tions OF regret were shown. Perfectly
calm and deliberate the prisoner was as he
spoke of his own fate. Sometimes he was
sitting on the bed and at other times care
lessly leaning against the door of his cell.
He lighted cigar and continued his con-
versation.
What about the Judge, did you ask?
could not have had a better Judge if
had my choice. His decision was good.
and in his charge to the jury he stated
fairly all grounds for rea sonable doubt.
had subpenaed eleven witnesses, but only
secured three. Ii | had obtained the
others the verdict might have been differ
ent. Some of these witnesses lived in
San Francisco and would have testified
that | was in that City at the time Of the
murder; but it is all right. The Jury gave
the verdict in accordance with testimony
'Do l belive in a Divinity? Well, l
don't know. l believe in natures laws
and in evolution. We must abide by
those laws or get punished. | trans
gressed and am punished. What comes
after death l don't know. l came in to
the world and | leave it. There is almost
q fatality, but l will not say that, for
that is too deep water for me; but the
spirit lives after death, but enters some
other form of life on lis EARTH The
Mosaic law contain true principles and is
the foundation of our present laws"
Moore then spoke in reference TO liter
ature. especially works of fiction. The
Sheriff returning, the murderer was again
lett to himself in his narrow cell.