The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-17
WANTS NO DELAY
 IN HIS EXECUTION
CONDEMNED MAN AT SING SING MAKES REMARKABLE REQUEST OF GOVERNOR oDELL-sAYs HE DESERVES TO DIE,

Albany, N. r.. March Ex-Governor Odell has received d most extraordinary
 letter from man condemned to death for
 murder, requesting the interference of the
 executive to prevent any attempt to de- lay the execution. The writer is Frank H.
 Burns, sailor, convicted in Brooklyn of the murder of George B. Townsend, the captain of his vessel. He is confined in Sing Sing prison, and was to have been
 executed February s, but the execution was stayed by an appeal to the court of
 appeals, taken by his attorneys without
 the consent of the condemned man.
 The letter says in substance that the
 writer believes himself deserving of the
 death penalty, which he wants inflicted with all speed possible. He declares he 1 does not want a new trial as he has
 violent temper which he is unable to con-
 trol, and would probably commit other
 crimes.
 The governor will take no action in l the matter
 l ------~-------~-~-~-~-- that if MT. Finley personally knew of any
 such abuses, 1t was his duty to call spe- cific attention to the individual
 Read Statements of Press. MT Finley declared he was not making | any charges against members of congress,
 but had read the statements in the press. He said the public mind was saturated with the charge that there was corrup-
 tion in the postoffice department, and the
 only thing to do was to investigate it.
 In a speech characterized by intense vigor, MT. Flood Of Virginia asserted that | AT free delivery service belonged to the dem | ocrats. It had he said, been claimed by Perry s. Heath, former first assistant 1 postmaster general. 'I am not" he said, | "astonlshed that gentleman who was willing to rob and plunder his government
 end permit other people to rob and plum | der the government he had sworn to pro- | tect, should rob political opponent of | the credit to which he was entitled" 1 He protested, he said against "honor- able gentlemen on this floor following the l example of Perry s. Heath" | MT. Williams of Mississippi, had read an editorial from the New York Times | today under the heading. "As to running amuck," having reference to an interview
 with the attorney general on the subject of the merger decision.
 To Quiet Approximations. The attorney general had given his views, he said, "to quiet the apprehen- sion of trusts and combinations for fear they might think the government was go- ing into the business of discovering and prosecuting them miscellaneously, without regard to political utilization or past con
 nection with republican policies" He said it remained to be seen whether this prose- cution was a theatrical campaign trick. or the beginning of a general policy "of shacking cunning now as strength and brute force have been shackled in the past"
 General debate on the postoffice appro- priation bill was closed by MT Gaines of Tennessee. who opposed mail sub sidies to railroads. If the provision could be defeated. he said. the money intended | for mail subsidies could go to raising the
 salaries of rural carriers, and to extend | ing the service into the iungles of the 1 country.
 At 5:2o p. m. The house adjourned