The Red Cloud chief., 1897-11-19
CARR TO DIE DECEMBER ~
The ShiId Murder err IL entenced 20 Death
lis Breaking Down.

is brtshtng DOWN.
LIBERTY. Mo. Nov. II. - Judge
Broaddus thi, morning sentenced
William Carr. the self. confessed muir
derer Of his little daughter, to hang
December u.
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 hat you
committed the murder Of your little
child. You are charged with having
wilifully, meditatively and deliber-
atcly committed this deed. To this
charge you have pleaded. AS you
made no defense. 1 felt il my duty to
appoint such attorneys as the gravity
Of the ofrensc demanded therefore
appointed Mcssrs. Allen and SAN
dusky. two of among the most promi.
nent lawyers in the state, men Of the
highest character and standing. j
fel, implicit confidence that whatever
could be done for you in an honorable
way would be done
after due consultation and con.
sidc 'ation these gentlemen. feeling
their sense Of responsibility. an
nounced your case was such hat 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 II. 50 hat IL 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 VAS my purpose to set aside
! your plea and give the case to q jury
Of your country men. 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
10. You were seen by four witnesses,
the fourth one testifying hat 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
xlive when you left homo was an i'm.
portant question. II 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 TO- sits before me, the
self confessed murderer Of his own s.
year-old child. Your flimsy excuse
that the child was quarrelsome and
p l...-A,bl III, 90 MONA ,.,ifa'a .1ll
son caunot be accepted by the court.
The motive must have been a more
powerful one. and il another may have
had any hand in this crime and YOU,
in your hours Of confinement and
solitary meditation, find nothing to
soften your heart aud disclose the
truth then you are simply not hui
man. Men and women commit many
crimes and for many motives You
assign no motive hat is worthy of
consideration. If your confession and
other statement are TO be believed,
Won stand a singular instance in the
annals of crime; n confessed and con-
/ victed murderer without y reasonable
motive for your crime. In the exc
cution Of my stern duty under the
law and my oath of Office, nothing re-
ma rs for me TO 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, 1927, 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 never raised his head during
the entire time the judge was passing
sentence. He looked somewhat pale
and his head was inclined a little to
one side and his eyes were almost
closed.
Ever since his trial last Saturday
Carr has been greatly changed. Be-
fore then he was ready Inc willing at
all times to talk, but now he lies in
his cell bunk much Of the time and
when visitors call at the jail hides his
face and will have nothing to say, lie
often weeps, and remorse appears to
have come upon him in its deepest
form.
The opinion has been expressed
that Carr's breaking down Is due to
his wife's absence from his trial II
this is true his in~fatuation Cor her has
not been changed by the disappoint.
ment, and her seeming desertion Of
him. lie has since wanted the courts
to arrange so that his living daughter
shall not be given to his first wife's
people.
Mrs Carr went To tho court house
this afternoon to see her husband, but
the officers were so busy in court tina
Z she could not be allowed to SEQ him
Carr heard in some way that his wife
was at the court house and he at one,
, frightened up aud wanted the officers
to try and arrange at once for him t.
have a talk with her. Carr and wifi,
will not be allowed to have a CONVEX
s~ation except in the presence OF al
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