The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03
LYNCH SHED
TEARS OF JOY
Broke Down When Informed Life
Had Been Spared.
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TOLD STORY OF HIS CRIME
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WEPT WHEN HE MOTHERS
NAME WAS MENTIONED.
TOLD STORY OF HIS CRIME

Jemes Lynch uept yesterday when
he was told thar the board of pardons
had committed his death sentence 10
ifesihpris6nment. He was 50 overcome
By his feelings that he could make no
reply 20 Deputy Warden Wright when
the latter broke the good news to hins.
Ia a semi-dazed condition he extended
his right hand through his partially
opened cell door TO grasp the one Civ
en- him BY the prison official. Then he
sat down on his cot in the death cell
and Yept
II was only for a moment that tie
condemned man gave way TO his feel
iTgs. When Deputy Sheriff Russell,
who had worked SO hard for his lie,
and several other persons interested in
his case were permitted to see him a
few moments later. ne had dried his
tears. His face was flushed and his
eyes fairly danced with pleasure. The
hard lines OF worry and anxiety had ali
but disappeared; they were supplanted
by an expression Of the greatest Of re
lief.
sobbed Like Child.
When these men crowded around his
cell door. all eager TO shake his hand.
and al congratulating him at once,
Lynch broke down a second time max
ing no effort to control his feelings.
When they left the cell he sat down
On his cot again, and heaving a sigh
that was audible out into the corridor,
where his death watch sat, the man
threw himself on his cot, and sobbed.
Prisoners We're Well Pleased.
In less than half an hour after the
ra lad fr. "a -flfaf1 e
sentence, the death watch was removed,
and preparations were made to put the
man in the second grade. Monday he
Will probably go to work in the shop.
Aside from the mercy shown Lynch
the most startling result of the board
meeting yesterday was the assertion
made by C0nnoTs, d life prisoner, that
Abe Majors was the man who wanted
to blow Guard Jacobs brains out as he
lay PROSTATE upOE the floor at the time
Oh the jail break. Up TO that tiIRe the
prison authorities had only suTn1ised
that Majors was the man whom Lynch
prevented from adding to the serious
ness of the break by committing muir
der.
Board Met in Prison Chapel.
The board held its special meeting in
the chapel Of the prison It first met
in the state supreme court room, and
then adjourned TO the penitentiaTy, il
being considered more advisable to do
that than 10 have the witnesses brought
10 the city and county building.
Lynch was the FIRST man examined
He was before the board for more than
half an hour. He was followed by Ma
jCTs, WaddPll. COnnOrs. Mullins, Riddle
and Guard Jacobs. Alexander a Rob
ertson and Roy Kaighn. who attended
tons put to them concerning the mat
| ter under consideration,
The statements made by the prisoners
all pointed to the fact that Guard ia
ccbs would have been killed BY Majors
had Il not besn for Lynch's Interior
eDoe Connors even went SO far as 10
tell Governor Wells that ne was GER
tain murder would have been commit
ted that night had not the condemned
man insisted that there be no shedding
of blood that II there was any intended
the boys could count him out"
Lynch Caused Break to Fail.
! Mullins made the statement that up
C. the time Lynch i,iterfered. the plot
to break had worked as planned. but
frCn that moment the men conceived
the idea that there was a traitor in TIE
crowd and. getting excited, lost their
nedUS ana the well l1tQ pans W ttAtt
the break a wholesale liberation ol
/ prisoners event to pieces"
Connors was the only man, excepting
/ Lynch. who showed any disposition 10
| tell all he knew. whether it inCrim-
mated himself or not. The prisoner
was advised By Governor Wells that
ht. need not answer any question put u
him, or tell anything that would in
eriminate himself, but CoRnors appar-
entity withheld nothing. He answered
all questions readily, and seemingly
told the truth. Majors told straight
story ND to the time the questions re-
uuired answers which might incrlm-
mate him. and then he equivueated, not
10 deceive so much as it was to protect
himself and the other ringleader5 IL
the plot.
What he ard the other prisoners did
tell the board corroborated IN every
particular the statement made py
Lynch regarding the part he played IN
the break and how he saved Guard ia
oobs' life.
Mothers Name Brought Tears
Lynch looked a physical wreck when
ne was brought into the chapel be
tween Clerk Stowe and 4 guard. he
vas first asked to relate all he knew
a bout the break, which was simply q
reiteration of what has already been
published by The Herald. When asked
about the Idaho robbery, he said hun-
ger drove him Go steal something to
eat He was working his way TO the