The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-27
Sheriff Gives Orders Placing
 His Deputies
FEW ID BE ADMITTED
Dorsey Denies Guilt and Will Probably Make Statement on the Galiows. Brief Sketch of the Crime
 and Capture.

Will Dorsey will be hanged in the yard at the county jail today at noon.
 The gallows on which Jim Webb was executed March 13 has not been taken down and Dorsey will go to his death on the same scaffold.
 The arrangements have been completed for the execution and Dorsey says he Is ready to die. He prays great deal and number of ministers will pray with him at the jail this morning before he is taken to the yard by the officers.
 Crowds Must Keep Back. Tn addition to the deputies who will be placed at the jail yard today squad of policemen will serve in holding back the usual crowds that gather on these oe- casions. Only a few passes have been | issued ond only a small number will wit ness the hanging Sheriff Burgin will pull the drop as near 12 o'clock as pos sible. It is thought Dorsey will have something to say on the seaffold.
 Chief Deputy Sheriff stradford said last night that no one without pass would be admitted to the jail yard and that a positive order to that effect had been issued.
 Sheriff Burgin has assigned all of his deputies to positions at the jail today and it may be interesting to note the schedule, which is as follows;
 Deputies Receive Orders.
 W. J. Armstrong, at back door of the court house; W. H. Ball, with Potts, at entrance to Third alley; w. s. Cole cf 4a41 Fl to assist in preparing the prisoner; B. T. Gurley, front door of jail; s. J. Snow front door of jail; J. H. Hill in alley be- tyeeen court house and jail yard; w. l. Love, to tie knot and look after the scaffold; C. J. Tomling, with Hill oppo- site big gate in the jail yard; J. N. Mer- Till, rear door of court house; r. D. Greene. rear door of court house; J. B. Potts, mouth of Third alley J. L.. Thomp- son, at Fourth avenue alley; c. w. Cour- son. to wait on prisoner. Orders were given with the schedule that all of the | deputies remain at their respective places until the body had been brought from the jail yard.
 First for Highway Robbery.
 Dorsey will be the first man to be hanged in Alabama for the crime Of highway robbery. He was convicted of going to the home of Dave McNamara, near Coalburg about 6:aO o'clock one Sat urday night several years ago and shoot Ing MT. McNamara and robbing the house of $4.5O. Dorsey then ran away. He was captured at Coal Gate in the h. dian Territory, by J.. A. Thompson, United States deputy. This Is in the see- tion occupied by the Choctaw nation of Indians. It is said that when captured Dorsey had a concealed pistol on his kperson, and 1t was only after several ef- forts that acquisition papers were se- cured. Deputy Sheriff w. I. Love went to the Indian Territory and brought the prisoner to Birmingham in September, 1901. Dorsey was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged in December. The case went to the Supreme court and the sentence was sustained The governor granted a respite of thirty days and the Supreme court recalled the affirmation. It again took up the case and again af- hrmed the decision of the lower court. The sentence was ordered to be carried out today.
 This will make the seventeenth hang | ing where Deputy Sheriff Love has tied the knot on the prisoners neck He has been a deputy for about fourteen years. | Dorsey sticks to the claim that another negro named Walker shot MT Mc- Namara and he denies taking any money. saying son of MT. McNamara gave | Walker $6