Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-25
PRICE ONE GENT
READ THE DEATH WARRANT
JULIUS COOPER STILL RE-
MAINS UNMOVED.
Gives No Evidence of Feeling AS
He Listensl lAttentively To
The Fatal Words.

Without, apparently, comprehending
the import of the words which were
being spoken TO him Julius, alias
Tots Cooper. stood, passive and un-
moved this morning while Sheriff
Samuel b. Hardy read Co him the
warrant of death. Clothed in that
phraseology which is calculated to
strike terror TO the heart of the evil
doer. the fatal words were received by
him with less expression of words or
countenanoe than would be produced
by an invitation TO take walk.
Silent and contained, passive and
dumb, giving but scant heed TO the
words that forever blast his hopes of
freedom, he stood before the Sheriff
and the witnesses. Not a word es-
capped his lips, not movement of his
brutal face betrayed any evidence OF
feeling Had he been an inanimate
object, bereft of life, of feeling or
power to move he could not have
been more passive. It was but few
minutes after IL o'clock that Sheriff
Hardy entered the county jail:where.
for several months Cooper has been
confined. The Sheriff was acoompa-
MED by Chief Deputy N. w. Bryan
and in addition those who heard the
warrant read are Deputy Sheriff II.
l.. Smallwood, Mr.. John Kelley, the
jailer, Mr.. James Thomas, day watch
man, Mr.. James l.. Goodman and
representative of the Capital.
Cooper has been confined TO Cell No.
opening off the long corridor on the
second floor and il was in this corri.
dor that the death warrant was read
Co him. When the party entered the
corridor Cooper was in his cell lying
ON the couch. When spoken to he
slowly arose from the couch and walk
ed into the corridor. There. standing
between Sheriff Hardy and Deputy
Bryan, the death warrant was read to
him. de was in his stocking feet and
stood, with his arms folded across his
chest, his head down and his gaze
directed to the floor. Taking the
warrant from his pocket Sheriff Hardy
said: Julius, | have an unpleasant
duty to perform-to read to you your
death warrant AS he spoke he
held the official document in his hand
and looked fixedly at the condemned
man.
Not tremor. the fiutter of an eye
lid or the movement of q finger sug-
gested that Cooper appreciated the po-
sition in which he stood. That blank,
brutal and unthinking look which has
been characteristic of the man since
| first the strong hand of the law has
placed upon him did not, for an in
stant, give way to any flicker of in
telligence. 1t was not such a face as
would give indication of weak mind
or one suffering from insanity, but
rather that of person who has per-
mitted the brutal instincts to predom-
mate. He made no response to the
words of the Sheriff and the latter
proceeded to read the sentence Of
| death. As before Cooper remained
silent. With everyone in the corridor
waiting for some sign of feeling on
the part of the condemned man, the
Sheriff proceeded with the reading,
and it was only when that portion of
the warrant reading land taken then
to the place of execution and there
hanged by the neck until you are
dead" that Cooper seemed to appre-
ciate that he was concerned. He bit
at his lips as though involuntarily and
raised his eyes to those of the Sheriff.
Then.he dropped them again and stood
awaiting any orders which might be
directed to him. Tue reading of the
warrant being concluded he was re-
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self upon the couch.
A death watch has been placed over
him night and day until the day Of
execution. 1t is thought that at the
last moment he will give way to his
feelings and that it will be necessary
to carry him to the scaffold. Thus far
there has been no influx of impression
able young women who have, hereto
fore, made the lives of jail officials a
burden by their opportunities to see
the condemned man.