The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-02
SENTENCED TO Be HANGED.
DEATH PENALTY PASSED ON
MURDERER PUTNAM.
Did Not Infiict the Court With the
Promised Harangue-Hustled
to Folsom.

O'Clock yesterday morning
oise huffman, the Folsom convict
"no stabbed to death his fellow con-
VI 1ohn Showers, stood up before Su-
pSiior Judge Hughes and was sentenced
~ pe hanged by the neck until dead.
otlman was ARA igned 1or sentence
week ago yesterday at which time,
VIII be remembered, he asked that
sehtence be postponed to enable him to
make statement to the Court. Judge
.tuShes granted the request and con-
LHuso sentence until "Wednesday \ s..
oH that morning a half-hour before
TIC time set for sentence, Pullman, who
was being, shaved by petty convict,
AZ some manner secured the razor and
siasned his neck, but not with sufficient
iorce to sever the large artery known
IS the jugular. These facts and the
further fact that owing to his inab Ii y
70 appear in court sentence was again
continued until yesterday, were duly
recorded in the Record Union
Pullman faced the Court yesterday
without a tremor. His half-hands ONE,
evil face showed no trace of emotion.
His head, owing to his wounded neck.
was held on one side, and he waS
closely attended by Sheriff johnson and
Deputies Conroy and Hunters.
In reply to question by the Court
as to whether he desired to make a
statement, Pullman, acting on advice
CT his attorney, Frank S. Sprague, re-
piled that he had nothing to say He
was then ordered to stand up, and the
Court proceeded to pass sentence
Judge Hughes preliminary talk to
the murderer was brief He reverted
to the fact that the prisoner had been
given a fair and impartial trial, and
every opportunity to make defence.
He complimented the jury and said he
would, had he been in its place, have
brought in an identical verdict H
hoped the experience of the prisoner
would be warning to others, and
ended by sentencing him to be taken
to the Folsom Prison and there, on the
Sth of September to be hanged by the
neck until dead
Puttman's face never changed a mus
Gle, but he had to be told twice by the
Sheriff's officers to sit down. Even
then he stood stock still until taken by
the arms by the Deputies, and as he
dropped into his seat the half sneer was
still upon his features-seemingly
frozen there.
Pullman was hustled down stairs.
and when again in Jail he delivered
himself, before the Sheriffs officers and
the newspaper reporters, of the state
ment he had evidently intended re-
hearsing before the Court.
His rambling statement was to the
effect that he had not been granted a
single request. He had asked to be
sent to San Quentin, instead of Folsom,
which had been denied. AT the latt +
place he had been treated like a devn
He had many complaints to make
against the prison officials at Fo,som.
Speaking of his attempt to commit
suicide, Pullman said his only regret
was that he did not bear down hard
enough on the razor to reach a vital
roint-that he thought he had done So
He said he much preferred suicide 10
Icing taken back to Folsom.
Sheriff Johnson and his deputies were
eager to see the last of Pullman, who
had. ever since his confinement here,
proved a source of annoyance. They
determined to wait for nothing. and the
afternoon train was not considered. So
it was that shorty after 10 o'clock the
condemned man was hustled into
hack. and with Sheriff Johnson and
Deputy Sheriff Hunters to watch him
closely, he started on his last ride BE-
fore taking his leap into the unknown
at the end of the hangmans halter,
and the Sheriff's officers breatAed
easier as they babe him long fare
we'll.