The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-22
GALLONS IS CHEATED
BILL DoRMAN, A NEGRO DIES IN
 COUNTY JAIL.
He Was Awaiting Execution of the Death Sentence for the Murder Of
 win Bryant at Pike

Bill Dorman, a negro murderer, was yesterday saved from the hansman moose by his natural death Tn the Naoh'' gomery County jail.
 Lying in a cell at the jail, rea4izlnS nerfactIv the awful fate which awaited bt,n the murderer yesterday morning at $40 o'clock succumbed to the ray aeies of tuberculosis, melancholia and starvation.
 seIf-inficted ills and tuberculosis was tha direct result of each. From the April Saturday. when Judge w. H. Thomas, presiding over the Criminal Court of Montgomery pronounced the words "and 1t is the sentence of the court. Bill Dorman. that the Sheriff of Montgomery County shall, in the Coun- ty jail. infiict on you the death penal ty by hanging you by the neck until you are dead. and may God have mercy on you in that awful hour" there was no peace on earth for Bill Dorman. He had a temporary respite by his case going to the Supreme Court of Ala bama but Bill Dorman had a premoni- tion that the high court would uphold the sentence of the lower court and for him there was no hope.
 The premonition weighed on the ne- gro. The jailers noticed 1t, His meal platters were seldom touched. While all other prisoners in the cages slept peacefully. Bill Dorman paced the mar row confines of his cell and moaned. He underwent a terrible nervous strain when Toney Jones. who was Sentenced to death five minutes before him, was hanged within twenty feet ,of his cell.
 The strain began to tell on him. County Physician Pollard, on recom- mendation of Jailer McLemore, moved him from the general cages to the more roomy cells upstairs. The change had no effect on his condition. Time and again the wretched man beg more and Night Jailer Hall to blow his brains out with a pistol.
 A few days ago 1t was realized that the condition of Dorman was very seri- ous. In fact, the County Physician and the Sheriff had under consideration removing him from the jail.
 Yesterday morning between Night Jailer Halls last inspection of the cells at o'clock and Jailer McLe- more's first inspection at o'clock. Bill Dorman succumbed.
 He was charged with the cold-bIood- ed murder of VIII Bryant, a negro farmer, against whom he had a petty grudge. Bryant, two years ago, was hoeing in his cotton field near Pike Road. Dorman stealthily drew near him and without giving him any warn ing, shot him down with a Winchester rifle.
 Dorman made good his escape, but during his pursuit, MT. J. W. Killen, one of the most esteemed citizens of the community, was thrown from his buggy and killed.
 Several negroes. who fitted the de- scription of Wild" Bill Dorman, were captured but were released. Finally in a Tennessee mining camp, Bill Dor man was captured and was brought to Montgomery by Deputy Sheriff s. s. Belser.
 During the next term of Court he was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and was sentenced to death, along with Toney Jones, who is now in his grave, and George Cal l houn. whose case Is in the Supreme Court.
 The body of Dorman was turned over to a negro undertaken, and will be buried by his family at Pike Road.