The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-07-30
DARLINGTON PAYS PENALTY.
Faced Death Without Falter; Bot Said
Not a Word of His Crime.

EoCC0 OCdCu w tNuOuI a DVC S0tu
Not Word of His Crime.
Darlington shot through the
trap at the Fort Worth Jail at LAG
Friday afternoon, the fall of eight
feet breaking his neck. He was
pronounced dead in Is minutes.
The march to the scaffold started
at 1:33. Darlington preceded
Sheriff Clark and went up the iron
steps to the scaffold unaided, with
a firm step. He stepped upon the
trap door without a falter, where
he made long rambling talk. but
never once referred to the crime
for which he paid his life today.
Facing death he said: AS l
stand before God | want to thank
the officers of the courts, they have
been kind to me, almost like a
brother; my friends have stood by
my side and my interest was seem
ingly their interest. | want to
especially thank my lawyer who
did all he could for me from begin
ming to end; he had left nothing
undone that would add to my case
When time is no more and we stand
on the other shore | hope we shall
know each other better. | wish to
thank Rev. McGaha who has been
by my side and administering those
things which | might enjoy here
after; while | know | have sinned
against my Father, | will arise and
) go to Him, and as | stand on the
: brink of death l forgive all those
who have i'll treated me. | am the
only one of our family who has
ever been brought to the scaffold.
| desire to thank Sheriff Clark and
his assistants, and now will bid
D you lasting farewell. l beg God
: to forgive the governor of Texas
! if he did wrong in not committing
my sentence | now commit my.
self to Him who said:
Not my will, but thine be done
! O! God"
There were at least 200 specta
tors within the Jail to witness the
execution, most of whom were of
ficers of the law, while around the
Jail yard there were several hun.
= dred curious people, anxious tC
catch a glance of even the coffin a:
it was brought out of the from
door of the Jail.
The body was cut down, placed
in a coffin and turned over to hi!
brother, who came up from Navar
TO county to receive it.
w. r. Petty became hysterica
and had to be removed from il
front of the scaffold. The scene
to be enacted was too much fo
his nerves. After the body wa
cut down the gates of the Jail!
were opened and crowds of peopl
permitted to view the remains.
:, \ Darlington was only 26 years o.
a. 20
and was educated for the ministr,
at school in Lampassas county.
The crime for which Jim Gar
: ington, alias Jim Darlington, pai
= the death penalty TODAY was tn
murder of Watson Whitaker, tn
fireman on the southbound passen
ger train a short distance north o
:, Fort Worth. on the night of Jul
- p, 1898.
The new arrangement of the Texa
& Pacific railway for taking care G
passengers to Hot Springs, Ark, doe
away with the lay over at Halvern
This makes the best service ever oi
fered those who desire TO visit tn
greatest mineral springs in America
The 7. & P. run two fast trains daily
equipped with superb Pullman sleeI
r ers and handsome new reclinin
rs chair cars (seats free). jl19
Tough on Sapuipa.
: The corner stone in the Odd Ee
. low temple was robbed the othe
night. A small amount of none
had been placed in the stone
,, which is thought to have been tn
N incentive for the theft. Any pei
! son who would do such a damnab]