The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-04-18
Noted Prisoners.

The first of these the Newspaper
man was shown today was young Har-
old Dean, as handsome as an Apollo.
He comes in from Spartanburg on @
life sentence FOR homicide, and it sad
dens one to reject on how those danc-
ing eyes will be dulled and how the
hard lines will be ohiseled icto that
fresh young face by relentless prison
life with it's moootouy and hardship.
Harold Desn doesn't look like mur.
derer.
By his side in Deans cell stood
young John Nall, the North Carolin.
ian, whose life sentence the Supreme
court recently refused to interfere
with. Nall is only 20 years old. He
got into trouble in Darlington about
year ago while drunk with his COM
pauion, Bob Smalls, and they killed a
negro in brutal circumstances.
Coming out of the prison Bob
Smalls was pacing walk with Fisher
and O'Day, the last two recently sent
in for safe cracking, although North
Carolina has also claimed them.
Smalls is also g young man and he has
created particularly favorable i'm
preston since he has been at the peni-
tentiary. He is hard worker. He
is to go back to Darlington in q short
time to be rescntenced. Small 8 only
hope lies in the pardon board. Much
feeling was aroused in Darlington by
the case and Smalls had to be brought
here for safe keeping.
Taking sunbalh on q pile of logs
at the end Of this walk sat R. A. Ad-
ans, the Colleton County white man
who. in q passion, hunted up his
kinsman, Henry Jacques, and killed
him as the result Of family row.
He ia under sentence of death,
though the execution has been defer
red in remarkable ways o number of
times. A short time after sentence
was pronounced against him he es-
capped Jail, and carrying his shot gun
into the fields with him made o crop
for his wife and children, while a
heavy reward was out FOR him. Then
he was captured in a spectacular way,
but after the Supreme court passed
unon hia appeal adversely Judge
Townsend, instead Of ressntencirg the
prisoner, granted him new trial on
alleged after discovered evidence.
The Supreme court later upset this,
which asain raised the curtain in. front
of the gallows for Adams. Recently
Adams attorney secured stay pend.
ing an Investigation of the merits Of
the after. discovered evidence. n.
Hoyt Hayes, the young Oconee
county mountaineer sentenced to hang
for the murder OF his bride wife, but
who he claimed, committed suicide
while in a delicate condition, works in.
the kitchen. This case has attracted
attention throughout three States, be-
cause Of the peculiar circumstances
surrounding the alleged murder. Both
the solicitor and tho trial Judge have
declined to recommend that Hayes be
pardoned, and when Governor Hey.
ward oomnuted Hayes sentence to
life imprisonment numerously sign
ed petition came to him from Ooonee
asking him 70 resign as governor: Bat
the governor places much store by the
report Of ;he handwriting expert, Mr..
Carvalhc, who pronounced as genuine
the note purporting to have been writ.
ten by the woman just before the shot
vas fred, and in which she spoke Of
death being preferable 20 the pain she
was undergoing. Hayes friends are
confident that tho govsrnor viii par.
don Hayes before a new governor is
iuaugurated next January, And theta
is reason to believe these hopes :aavs,
good foundation. The penitsn.iary
people don't appear to like Hayes,
He. hasn't got an engaging way about
him.-Columbia Record. Ei45@., {; 4 Z; & IS
Too Much Eaoray Ia 0ae direction.
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