The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-11-18
CARR 70 HANG DEC. II.
SENTENCED TO DEATH BY
JUDGE BR0ADDUS.
REMARKS OF THE COURT.
Urges Carr to Reveal the Real Motive
for the Crime-The child Murderer
Hears His Doom Pronounced as
~ In a stupor, Yet showed
Keen Consciousness OF
Hts Position.

LIBERTY, Mo, Nov. 17-william
Carr, the self-confessed and proven
murderer of his 3-year-old daughter,
Belle Carr, win expiate his heartless
crime upon the gallows in the Clay
county Jail at Liberty Friday, Decem-
Der II. Sentence was pronounced
upon him at Liberty yesterday morn
ing by Judge +. J. Broaddus, at the
canclusion of one of the most scathing
arraignments ever delivered from a
Missouri bench. Carr heard his doom
pronounced as one in a stupor, yet
seeming to realize the awful signifi-
canoe Of tho judges words At the
end ne sank into chair and was led
10 his cell by a deputy sheriff a mo-
ment later
In passing sentence the court said:
Carr you are charged in the in
dictment, under four counts, with
murder in the first degree. The fourth
and last one is to the effect that you
committed the murder of your little
child. You are charged with having
willfully, neditatively and deliber-
ately committed this deed To this
charge you have pleaded AS you
made no defense, felt IL my duty TO
appoint such attorneys as the gravity
of the offense demanded therefore
appointed Messrs. Allen and San
duslSy, two of among the most promi-
nent lawyers in the state, men of the
highest character and standing.
felt implicit confidence that whatever
could be done for you in an honorable
way would be done.
After due consultation and con-
side ration these gentlemen, feeling
their sense of responsibility, an
nounced your case was such that they
could not do anything for you. But
the court. feeling the responsibility of
the situation, refused to act upon your
plea of guilty until all evidence could
be laid before it, so that it might be
shown over and beyond your plea of
guilty that you were guilty beyond all
reasonable doubt. Had the evidence
left any doubt on my mind upon that
fact, IL was my purpose TO set aside
your plea and give the case to jury
of your countrymen. But your con-
fessions, admissions and the evidence
shows you are guilty beyond doubt.
Belle was little 3-year- old-girl-
your own child Her mother was dead
and you had another wife. You left
home with the child in your arms in
the middle of the day Sunday, October
TO- You were seen by four witnesses,
the fourth one testifying that he saw
the child's face; its eyes were open
and it was alive. You stated also that
she was alive. AS TO whether It was
alive when you left home was an inn
portant question. If carried away dead,
in the very nature of things other per-
sons were connected with the murder
and you alone not responsible.
"But the murderer has been found
in him who now sits before me, the
selfconfessed murderer OF his own B.
year-old child. Your fimsy excuse
that the child was quarrelsome and
disagreeable to your wife's 9-year-old
son cannot be accepted by the court
The motive must have been a more
powerful one, and II another may have
had any hand in this crime and you,
in your hours of confinement and
soften your heart and disclose the
truth then you are simply not hui
man Men and women commit many
crimes and for many motives You
assign no motive that is worthy of
consideration. If your confession and
other statements are TO he believed,
you stand a singular instance in the
annals OF crime; confessed and con-
victed murderer without reasonable
cution OF my stern duty under the
law and my oath of Office. nothing re-
mains for me 10 do but to pronounce
the sentence of the law
"The Judgment of the court is, that
you be. by the sheriff, carried back to
the county Jail and there safely kept
by him until Friday, the 18th day Of
December, 1897, on which day you
shall be taken thence to the gallows
and hanged by the neck until you are
dead And may God have mercy upon
you"
Carr made no comment upon tho
sentence except to express the wish
that il could be carried out sooner
He declared that it was too late TO be
sorry. He seemed TO be very much
depressed at the absence Of his wife,
for whose sake indirectly the fearful
crime was committed. Mrs. Carr
heard the announcement later with
indifference.
Sheriff Hymer has announced that
he will erect a stockade about the jail
and that the execution will be wit
messed by only 200 persons
There is no need OF little children
being tortured by scald head, eczema
and skin eruptions DeWitrs Witch
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