The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-11-12
some SCATHING WORDS
JUDGE IRWIN IN OKLAHOMA tx.
PRESSES HIMSELF.
Deals Out Language Which Would
Stunt the Average Man Brought
Before Him-Lays Bare Plans
Which Subordinate Oeceiver

Kmghsher Ok. NOV. I1.-Judge c
/ r Irwin Of f. Reno. who occupied the
district court bench for Judge Beau.
champ OF Enid. IN passing sentence
on Robert z Carlyle. convicted OF
. 0.gamy. made one Of the seyerest
/ speeches recorded in this territory.
Carlyle is said TO have many wives
throughout the United States and was
about TO marry a woman here when
Dee was discovered in Judge Irwin s.
sentencing speech DC said.
"l have no idea that any word of
mine could be of any avail for good
when addressed 10 a man Of your age
and apparent intelligence. and a mal
Of your experience. Your story as
told by yourself from the witness
stand shows concluslyely that you are
q person wholly devoid Of humanity.
without one spark OF manhood. honor
or principle. listened careully TO
it from beginning to ending with a
nope that somewhere in its Cerk,
das tardly details / could possiay find
| -omething that would show tha, some
where, some time, in your "letEerod
career you may have been sJVethir r
better than what you have show y.u,-
self to be- Your victims hav. ever
b., en- the innocent the vi~,u5u- and
the inexperienced Tho roJ5 and
the burglar, or even the NJ rls.Hr in
'Ie commission Of their criu-i have
.Cmc elements Of co Irago nut yJur
.. me IS not only dastardly bur cow
lrlly Your crime is one o. tha most
dangerous TO society It strikes d
| blow upon that which the worry fouuIa.
on of society rcsts-th. .ala.y rela.
tons. You have showu hy yo.a con
srct as detailed by yourself hat you
nave no regard for any of the sac ed
/ relations Of home and fanny. OF hus-
.and, father or child am no regard
90 consideration for the innocent or
the yirtuous You have jrampici n-
der your feet all the sacred relations
of life, apparently guided and actu-
ated only by your unlicensed greed.
you have fitted from place to
place in your devious career, leaving
behind you a trail of broken hearts.
weeping eyes aul sorrowing families.
You have left along your way blasted
hores and uiuel prospects. Accord
ing To- your own story. after you had
damned your soul with the blackest
perjury at Little Rock Ark. and led
TO ruin and destruction young.
bright girl. who loved and trusted you.
scarcely had the ink which evidenced
! that black and damnable perjury dried
/ upon the paper until you sought mere
innocent victims to destroy. You
came here. selected another family as
the mark for your destructive work
and worked yourself into the good
graces OF that innocent and unsuspect-
ing school girl
Il only regret that the legislature OF
this territory in its mistaken wisdom
has placed it beyond my power to give
you the punishment you deserve. II
is sad commentary on our criminal
system that a man convicted Of big
amy can be accorded a sentence OF
only FIVE years in prison. The only
advice ! would give you now would
be that in the seclusion and solitude
o. that institution to which you are
about TO be consigned, YOU devote your
time to prayer TO the God OF the Uni
verse that He find It within His in
finite mercy TO excuse your dastardly
crime. Ask Him to save such a pol
lutp3 eDul as yOurs