The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-16
ALLEN NEVER FLINCHEO
The Young Qusrtsr-B Breed Sem
fenced to Be Hanged Jan. II.
HIS STOICISM IS PERFECT
He Says He supposes Thsss WIN - .
Lot OF Kodak vSsnds Around 20 80
Him e~wing-rhs Judge Moro
Affected Than h Waa.
Special Dispstch to the standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena. Nov. B.-Uniess . stay AZ
execution ~intervenes pending the perfsc-
ton Of an appeal. Joseph Allen. the
young quarter-breed. who killed J. 3.
Reynolds. will expiate his crime upon
the gallows on January ~. Judge
Smith to-day sentenced him to hang
at that time. The Indian blood that
courses through Aliens veins asserted
itself In a remarkable degree during the
imposition of the sentence. for he never
wavered nor displayed q CULVER A. the
judge pronounced The fatal words which
II carried out will rob him Of earthly
existence at the beginning of the new
year.. The stoicism Of this boy, for he
Is but 20. surprised the spectators. who
were drawn to the scene In the expecta-
ton that he might weaken at the last
minute N confess his guilt. They
were disappointed. however. He put
on a bold front. faced the court and
heard his doom with almost the same
air as he wore during his trial. He was
a trifie paler but otherwise he appeared
as though he were being sentenced for
a petty crime.
Joseph Allen. stand up" aid Judge
Smith soon after h murderer had
been brought into court. Allen arose
and faced h court. who said:
AN information has been fled against
you In this court charging you with the
crime of murder in the first degree; to
that information o pleaded not gull
~. You were tried by a jury who re-
turned a verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree in the manner and form
as charged in the information. Have
you any legal reason now to offer why
the sentence of the court should not
be pronounced upon you?
NO" in a clear voice was the con-
demned mans only reply.
The Judgment of the law is that you
be remanded to the custody Of the
sheriff of Lewis and Clarke county. and
that hereafter. at a time and place de-
sisnated In the warrant OF h court,
you be hung by the neck until you are
dead" said the judge In a tone OF
voice in keeping with the solemnity of
the occasion.
Allen sat down and then arose at q
nod from IN oficer and left the court
room for his cell In murderer's row In
the county jail. While en- route to the
Jail he a something to the officer ac-
companying him about the Judge ap-
pearing more affected than he was.
and as he entered his cell made another
attempt at humor by remarking that
he supposed there would De q lot of
koudk ntnus dt tue ndlsiuS. lnfoukh-
out the entire proceeding he had been
as unconcerned as the proverbial
brave"
Aliens attorney was present during
the court proceedings but he made no
mention of efforts to procure another
trial. Whether he will take such steps
in a few days no one appears to know.
1t is believed hat probably he will.
and that a stay of execution, pending
the final determination OF the effort for
a new trial will ensue. When the
court made out the warrant calling for
the execution he fixed the date of SEN
tence as January IL. For the present
Sheriff Davidson will not maintain q
death watch over Allen.