Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-24
MAN WITHOUT A HEART"
HANGS NINETY-NINE MEN.

to do this, In view of his record. One
of the early cases that came before me
was that OF q young Chattanooga ply
scian who moved west with his young
wife and located in the Arbuckle noun
tains. Two negroes who haunted the
neighborhood waylaid the doctor and
tied him to a tree. leaving him there
TO starve, He could not free himself
and did starve there. The villains than
went TO the little home among the FIR
trees where the young wife was anN-
iously awaiting the return Of her hus-
band and told her that he had fallen
from a boulder high UP among tho
mountains. and had broken his leg
They would guide her To him. She went
with them and to her death for
they killed her and threw her into az
old well so feet deep. Months after
ward her skeleton was found. One o.
the murderers boosted Of his crime ana
was soon captured
CONDEMNS MAUDLIN sENTIMEN-
TALLY.
Judge Parker condemns in unmeas.
ured terms the maudlin sentimantalism
that leads women TO carry flowers and
iellies TO much advertised criminals.
These ladies' mean WE'LL" he said.
There is no doubt OF that. But what
mistaken goodness. Back OF the sem
timantality are the motives OF sincere
pity and charity. sadly misdirect ed.
They see the convict alone, perhaps
chained IN his cell. They forget the
crime he perpetrated. There Is too
much OF this kind OF thing all over the
country"
Judge Parkers court held session
lasting from s o'clock IN the morning
until dark. There was so much crimi.
nal business the court had to work
overtime. The jailer and hangman
were naturally busy men. The jailer
was j. D. Berry, brother. OF United
States Senator Berry Of Arkansas The
hangman was George Lawson, depu-
~ marshal. Between the two they
had bought hundreds of yards Of rope
for executions, and knew the kind that
would do the gruesome work without
breaking
I'VE buy ropes that are ropes" said
Jailer Berry. "Those officers who try
to hang men and let the ropes break
as the trap falls ought to be indicted,
II is their business 10 see that the rope,
are strong enough, and the only way
they can do IL Is by testing them with
DUMMIES, as we do, We don't run any
risks. The ropes are softened with lin
seed oil before being used on a man.
IN addition TO the tests they get from
the dummies. People write me from
all over the United States for pieces
OF rope we have hanged men with and
pieces OF the gallows on which they
are stretched. We can't oblige all these
people, and We don't try. because no
man is made any better by handling
such grisley objects"
George Lawson, the Fort Smith hang
man, had pulled tho iron pin that drop-
ped nearly 100 men TO death. He WAS
known far and wide as the coolest man
VINO ever pulled trigger from under "
criminal. He said that the first tina
he did II he dreamed about the DYING
man for weeks afterward, but he sooIi
got over that and cared nothing for
assisting IN putting away the hardened
characters sentenced at Fort Smith. He
really thought he was doing them n ia
vor He had hanged five men at one
time, and never finched as they shot
through the trap and struggled "A few
minutes until relieved by unconscious
ness. II was Lawson who pulled the
trigger on the Buck gang, the toughest
set OF men in the southwest. Five Of
them were strung up at one time. They
We're part Indian and part negro. an
their leader was Rufus Buck Nobody
Knows how many people they did kill OF
how many robberles they committed