The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-30
FOR SAKE OF MOTHER
Frank AIIgood Pleads for Light
Prison Sentence.
CONVICTED OF STEALING
Horses and Sentenced TO Three
Years in Penitentiary'
CONVICTED OF STEALING

Frank Allgood, who was recently con-
victed in the county Jail Of horse steal
ing, was sentenced yesterday by Judge
Dale to three years in the penitentary
at Leavenworth. TIL crime for which All
good was convicted and sentenced was
committed near Maize number of years
ago and for a long time the officers did
not know Of the whereabout of the man.
After his apprehension Allgood was con-
fined in the county jail for some time
When taken before Judge Dale yester-
DAY AIlgood was given an opportunity to
state why he should not receive sentence.
To the surprise OF those in the court
room Allgood made an appeal for liberty,
and one of the reasons given for the
non-sentencing of him was the effect a
sentence would have upon his old moth
er. Before he was through with his ap-
peal there were moist eyes in the court
but despite of that or the fact that his
mother would be affected by the SEN
tence Judge Dale gave the order for three
years.
Allgood's appeal to Judge Dale in part
is as follows:
Your honor, 1 haven't very much to
say. There is not much for an innocent
man to say. / have only to say that
am innocent of the charge brought
against me as any man could possibly
be- but 1 hope that I may live to see
the time when the world will be con-
WINGED of my innocence. I may go up
there and serve three years in cold
prison cell, but as sure as there is Gcd
in heaven I will some time prove my
innocence I am young and healthy and
can stand it I presume, if you want to
send me there, but my poor old gray
haired mother, I don't know whether she
can stand it or not. It Is not the horror
Of prison which I so dread; that has
no horror for me, and 1 speak from ex-
perience, having spent year in the pen
itentiary. but it is the ignomy and shame
and disgrace it brings upon my poor old
mother and my sisters. They are dear
to me and I hate the thing. 1 could
spend ten years in the penitentiary If
was guilty easier than one when I am
innocent. This is the reason I speak in
my own defense. My desire is to live
on the SQUARE. I want to be an honor
able, upright citizen, and would be If
they would let me, but when a man is
tied hand and foot, so to speak, what
is he to do? I want to live as an hon
est law abiding citizen, and If Providence
so ordains I viii live to see the day
when I can.
Mr.. Dick DodN the turnkey, says that
during the long time that AIlgood has
been confined he has not had a quieter or
better prisoner behind the bars. He says
he has never heard him use a word of
D-ofane language, is always quiet and
courteous to all who come to talk to
him.
One Of the horses which Allgood was
convicted Of stealing was never found.
One Of the horses. however, was found
in Rice county and returned to the own
er. At the time of his trial AlIgood
stated to the court that he and Al Bal
lard. who is in the penitentiary, were to-
gether and that it was Ballard who was
implicated in the affair.
BY Billiards. statement to the officers
at the time he was released from the
state penitentary Algood was impli-
Gated in the New murder in Greenwood
county. After some investigation nothing
was ever done about the matter. At the
time of the conviction Of Augood in the
district court there were officers present
with a United States warrant on the
charge Of counterfeitng in this county.