The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-01
THREE MUST HANG
SUPREME COURT DECLINES Ts
 GRANT RE-HEARINGS.
yohu williams. Robert Dix and Isaiah Gordon will Be Hanged.---Sev- eral Other Important Grim"
 final Cases.

final Cases.
 By refusing to grant re-hearings Tn their trials. the Supreme Court has set it's seal of approval on the legal hang ing of John Williams of Cullmanscoun- ty the murderer of State Senator Heo- ert Hipp, and upon Robert L. Dix. negro who killed .ert ,Pesnell a. Bir- niingham street car conductor. anu upon Isaiah Gordon, the murderer or ms eighteen months old stepsCn. Williams will be hanged on July 21. and DIX ana Gordon on August 8. the -ates having been previously fixed by the Supreme Court less tn q month ago.
 The final action of the Supreme Court in the case of the condemned murderers. was handed down at the close of the November term of that body yesterday Applications had been made by the lawyers for the three pris- oners, which were In each case oyer ruled. nay the death renalty was the shooting of State Senator sHipp when the latter accompanied by officers of the law. attempted to enforce a writ depriVing williams of his farm in Culiman county. Aneered by the order of the omcers. Williams entered bedroom or S nls house, picked up a rifle, and opened fire. He wounded one of the ofn- cfaIs accompanying Mfr. Hipp seriously while another shot took effect In the hack of the head of the State senator as he was leaving the house. Williams then made his escape. giving nimseit up soms hours later.
 aroused intense interest throughout Alabama The dead man was one or the most prominent young men in the State He was about to be married to al lady from one of the prominent famil- les in the State.
 of CuIlmau county called a special ses- sion of the court. and few months after the commission of the crime, VII Hams was convicted and sentenced tol be hanged. From the time of his com viction until the last week, however, his lawyers have put up a brilliant fight in his behalf. The case was brought before the Supreme Court ear Her in the month, when the sentence or the CulIman Circuit Court was approv- ed The refusal of that body to grant snother hearing in the case. which was made known yesterday, removes the last hope of the murderer to escape thel galIows, unless the Governor interferes, which is not probable.
 A quarrel over paying street car fare was the cause of the murder for which Dix, a negro. is to be hanged On the
 
 d party of negroes was riding to work, when Bert Pesnell. the conductor of the car. sought to collect fare. Dix reius- cd to pay and. Pesnell attempted to nut him off the ear. The negro there- upon drew a knife and fatally wound cd the conductor. Dix was convicted of murder in the first degree by the Jefferson criminal court ana senlenc- cd to death The Supreme court ap- proved the finding of the lower court and refused application for rehearing' The date set for execution is August D.
 Isaiah Gordon, the other negro who is to be hanged on August 5, IS rom Macon county. The crime TOT Which he is to pay with his life was the Kill srg os his baby stepson, whom he kill ed because the baby kept him awake at night. It Is supposed he dashed the child's brains out upon the floor or his cabin. He was convicted by the Macon Circuit Court action which was later affirmed by the Supreme Court.
 Another application for renearins which was over ruled by the Supreme fonrt in the records handed down yes terdsv was that of Will Gains, who | was convicted of murder in the first degree in Montgomery City Court ana ~Ivan A life sentence. Gains, It was Shown in the trial. had laid in wait for another negro, and had Kllleo ni"i with a charge from shot gun.
 A number of important criminal cas- by the Supreme Court in the oplnIohS of that body handed down yesterday.
 Tn the appeal of Mack Knight~ charged Jointly with Wade Oliver. vvith killing Leander Feagin, and found guilty by the Conecuh Circuit Court of conspiracy with. Ollver TOT that purpose the Supreme Bench ar
 af oFaric nf TIT q for life which was imposed by the lower tribunal.
 In the case of Abb Hammond. who was convicted of murder by the Gov fnEton Circuit Court, and sentenced For life, the decision of the lower court was reversed and the case remanded' was a member Of the police force of Florala. He shot and killed Rud Tucker and his brother of that place while the latter were resisting arrest. In the melee a bysta7der was also shot, dying later from the wound
 The Tucker brothers were among lne most prominent families of that part If the State, and bad blood was said to have existed between them and Hammond for some time. The shoot Ing was the direct outcome of an at tempt on the part of Hammond to ar rest Bud Tucker for carrying 6 con cealed pistol. At the trial, it was charged that the act of the policeman was prompted by hatred rather than In the performance of his duty. In another opinion, the sentence of the Lawrence Circuit Court of twenty years imposed upon 1s-year-old Elm met Parham. charged with murdering his wife, two years his junior was affirmed The trial of the youthful husband created distince impression h the county where the murder was { committed. not only because of the youth of the accused slayer. but also , ,f Che revolting detaails of the crime. The mangled body of Mrs. Parham, ' who was Miss Murray Hall. was found C 'r the railroad track a mile from the }