The daily sentinel., 1906-12-24

to read and as McGarvcy was natural
ly quite fond of reading he spends
hour after hour al this pastime and
evidently derived much pleasure
thercirom
The wretch is allowed all the to-
bacco he may want for either smol-
ing or chewing purposes and hc-smok-
es cigarettes almost incessantly.
In Good Health.
The young man seems to be in eX-
celcnt headth, in fact il is stated
that he is enjoying better health now
than he did before being placed in
solitary confinement. He looks well
and never complains.
Twice a week the murderer must
take bath and be shaved. the barber
goes 10 the death cell to shave him
usually on Wednesdays and Satur-
days. r...
\ Model Prisoner.
There are few breaks in the monot-
uny of the daily life Of this man who
in solitary confinement is awaiting
death Each day passes like the
day before.
McGarvey has given the attendants
and officials no trouble whatever. 1t
seems as if he has been model pris-
oner and has readily and almost al
ways smilmgly assented to every cont
mand and order. Evidently he reallz-
es that in the % years Of his life he
has caused enough trouble and sor-
row without marking days that are
rapidly speeding him on to his doom
with ugly deeds and acts of disobed-
fence.
How He WIFI Spend Christmas.
Tomorrow. Christmas day. the day
that in which JOY and gladness should
reign in every heart, Will not bring
gladness to the heart of the murder
er. its true meaning will be LOST to
him. However. he VIII probably find
passing pleasure in the typical Christ
mas dinner of which he will he allow
ed to partake.
He will be served a turkey din
ner with plum pudding and its con-
gtituents This dinner will be brought
to him from the officers kitchen and
will be the same as served to those
who will dine att he officers mess
| This will be the only feature that will
make different this last day that John
| IMcGarvev will spend on earth, from
| the other DAYS of his confinement,
Mayhap in his lonely cell this crime
hardened youth will let his thoughts
wander bacl, to the days of his child
hood when Christmas meant as much
| to him. and was to him an occasion
of Just as much innocent delight. as
| il was to any other little boy. And
mavhap he will think too of the real
meaning of Christmas celebration
of the birth of Him who died to save
the world. and will realize how light
| " he respected and regarded the
| teachings of the lowly Nazerene.
Is Not Despondent
! The condemned man is not at all
Idespondent and appears to accept his
approaching fate in most philo-
soDhical and matter of fact manner
He is cheerful at all times. He eats
heartily. sleeps soundly. and gets all
1.-The pleasure possible out Of the flee
ing days. He is heard to whistle Of
ten and # is said now ana then he Is
heard humming a song. He seems
TO have no fear for the awful ordeal
that is just ahead of him. Since the
moment of his arrest by William Nc
| Dowell at DeBeque on October 3, Me
! Garvey has retained his nerve and
dcyiI-may-Care air. Never once has
he broken down. Many believe that
he viii 80 to the gallows with the
same show of Indifference.
His Relatives Desert Him.
As stated in the Sentinel Saturday
the aged mother of the murderer
Idied at her home at Long Branch
New Jersey on December Is, it is sale
, that the murderer does not know o.
. her death. It is reported that brood
, ing over her sons fate killed her. II,
has a brother in Colorado Spring'
and his aged father is in New Yorl
o. City, but they as well as the othel
8 relatives seem to have forsaken the
, condemned man in his extremity anc
] as result no effort has been made