The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-09

! man in the dining-r SIN The woman. he
said. was very much agitafed, and said to
him. Frank. go away. Go up to the park.
l VIII meet you there in "a little while
Funk said he did as Sophia Brown request
ed, and went TO Washington Circle Park
IN little while, he said, the woman came
there She was stiil excited, and told him
that the police were looking for him They
had discovered he was a deserter from the
United States Army and only q short while
before had been at her house searching for
him Sophia Brown then, he said, took
from her bosom a large roll Of money and
taking off two twenty-dollar bills, offered
them to him and told him to leave the city
as quickly as possible.
The sigh of SO large an amount of
money, Funk testified, was too great a
temptation for him to resist, so he
snatehed it from Sophia Browns hand.
ran cut of the park, and boarded an east
bound car of the Capital Traction Com
pany- He stopped at the Avenue and Sew
enth Street, he said, and purchased suit
Of clothes. He then went to Lynn's Ho-
tel, On Pennsylvania Avenue, where he
put On his new clothes. Al the hotel he
registered as barry A. Nicholson or
dered supper aud retired to his room. The
waiter, not serving the meal promptly,
Funk returned to the office of the hotel
and ordered another supper. Funk did not
eat either of the meals ordered by him
As soon as he was dressed he went to
the Sixth Street station and purchased a
ticket for New York Learning however
that his train would not leave for nearly
two hours he went TO the Baltimore and
Ohio depot and there he purchased a
thousand-mIle ticket, assuming the name
OF Eddie Bald" the bicycle rider, and
left for New York about 8 o'clock The
morning after his arrival in Nav York he
deposited $1,000 of the sum taken from the
Brooks home in a bank. This money, it
was shown at the trial, he lost at = e race
tracks around that city. From New York
Funk went to Altoona. Pa. where he was
arrested for jumping a board bill and
served thirty days in jail. During the fall
of 1898 he left Altoona and went to the
middle West where he stayed working at
his trade as a carpenter until he was ar
rested On August 19, 1888, at Columbia,
No.
The Corener's jury which investigated
the circumstances surrounding the death
OF William II. Brooks determined that the
latter had come to his death from blows
inflicted by Funk 1t was not, however,
until July 4, 1898. that the grand jury
for the District returned an indictment
against him, and a bench warrant issued
for his arrest He was put on trial in
Grim. |. Justice Charts c.
scelnber Il last, and
sszzszzsY was returned against
4Nep - counsel, Messrs.
=. - e and s..sss Sc sz7a .s1.olf fled a
motion for new itri;- on DECEMBER So
and argument was hez-d I'D matter
taken under adyis NJ by Jus Zee Cole.
II was not. hoveTe- III EE,'gg-zlary Is of
the present year that 9dstice Cole an
Hodnced his decision oyarru1ing the mo-
tIon. Three TEsfs later, on March ),
Justice Cole proZsuGced the death SEN
tence O. Funk, fixing the date for his ex-
ecution on May H. His attorneys noted
an appeal to the Court of Appeals for the
District OF Columbia and fled 4 motion
for an arrest of judgment. This matter
was not disposed of by the Court of Ap-
Feals at once and on May Justice Cole
signed an order postponing the execution
until June 10 Again on June u it be
came evident that the Court of Appeals
would not dispose OF the matter OF ap-
peal. and for second time Justice Cole
postponed the execution until June 90
Before that date, however the Court OF
Appeals, in an opinion, announced by
Justice Shepard, on June p. affirmed the
judgment OF the lower court. and a war
rant Of execution was ordered issued
For a second time Funk's counsel ap-
Realed from the decision of the court,
making a final effort to hare Funk's case
reviewed by the Supreme Court OF tie
United states on writ OF ceTttorari-
This necessitated a third delay OF the
execution of Funk, and on July % PresI-
dent Mckinley respited Funk until No
yember g.
On the 22d OF October Last. the Supreme
Court Of the United States denied the ap-
plicatiOn for writ of certiorari and with
that all hopes Of obtaining relief through
legal process was lost to the condemned
Inan- HIS counsel and his father William
F. Funk. then fled a petition in the De-
partment Of Justice. asking for Executive
clemency for the prisoner Mr.. Funk also
vent 10 Canton, Ohio. and personally made
an appeal to the President on behalf OF his
son. Action On the appeal for cIemency
vas referred by the Department Of Jus
tice 20 District Attorney Anderson who
Cole. who conducted the proceedings. These
gentlemen carefully considered the petit
ton and reviewed the case, and on last
Tuesday General Anderson report
ed adversely on the application. and
Justice Cole declined to make any recon-
rnendation.
During Funk's confinement in prison he
has always stoutly contended that he vas
innocent of the crime for wach he was
convicted, and paid the penalty FOR his life
About six months ago Funk embraced the
Catholic faith and since then has constant
" been in close converse with his spiritu-
al advisers Fathers MCGUIRE and O'Dono-
ghue Very soon after his determination
to embrace the Catholic faith, Funk was
baptized and later made his first COMES
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