The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-12
WIFE KILLER 1. SENTENCED Negro Receives the Death Penalty. TO BE HANGED JANUARY IS Attorneys for David Beeman Grant
 cd Time for Appeal Eugene Bowling, Convicted of Rape. Gets Fifty Years--In All, 5s Pris-
 oners Receive Announcement
 of Punishment.

 whelmed by the sentence to be passed i upon him, David Beeman, a negro, con- victed of the murder of his wife stood | before the desk of the Clerk of the City | Court yesterday afternoon. while Judge William H. Thomas imposed the death | penalty.
 Beeman was sentenced to be hanged | January 1S, between the hours of 10 a. m. and m. but this sentence was suspended by Judge Thomas pend- | ing an appeal to the Supreme Court. Counsel for Beeman made an earnest | effort for a new trial for the con | demned man before Judge Thomas, pre- | vious to the pronouncipg of sentence. | At the trial of the case he had been 1 appointed by the Court to defend the | negro, and he then had little time to ! thoroughly investigate the details of the killing. Since then, however. he | had spent two days in the western | part of the County, he represented, and 1 new circumstances had been gathered. | The attorney cOntended that Beeman's l wife, whom he had slain, had threaten | ed his life with the axe, with which he later killed her. In conclusion, he said he had never been able to get a reasonable statement of the tragedy from Beeman. The ne- gr6's stories were incoherent, he said, and they varied from time to time.
 Negro Is Stupehed.
 Asked by Judge Thomas, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him. Beeman's eyes were fixed in a dreamy stare to- ward the four walls of the court room, Not sound did he utter in response to the question propouAded. Judge Thom~ as then pronounced the penalty of the law, and Beeman was taken back to jail by the sheriff.
 Bceman killed his wife last summer On a plantation in the western part of the County According to the evidence | in the case the crime was brutal one. the bloody work being accomplished with an axe The jury was out but shcrt time before a verdict was rem dered, infictlng the death penalty. Beeman was the only prisoner sem fenced to be hanged at the term of the criminal court just completed.
 Counsel for Beeman was granted suf- hclent time in which to perfect bill of exceptions for an appeal Eugene Bowling, convicted of an un- natural crime on his young daughters at this term of court was denied new trial by Judge Thomas who heard | counsel for the convicted man argue | fully fifteen minutes.
 D0vvIIng Receives Sentence.
 overruling the motion for new | trial. Judge Thomas directed Bowling to come forward and stand before him. Bowling arose from his chair and | advanced to be sentenced.
 How old are your asked Judge l Thomas.
 T will soon be 46." said Bowling, | in tones almost inaudible
 What is the condition of your health?" was the formal question.
 My health is bad Bowling was un- derstood to say.
 l 'ryVhat is vour occupation?" | T am a carpenter and machinist." Have you anything to say why the sentence of the court shall not be pro nounced upon your was the next ques- ton. Bowling made no answer.
 Eugene Bowling, I sentence you to l fifty years imprisonment were the 1 concluding words of the judge. ! On notice of appeal from counsel, Judge Thomas suspended the sentence | pending a decision from the Supreme | Court.
 Bowling, who is 9 white man, was | found guilty of rape by jury in the | criminal division of the City Court and his punishment was fixed at fifty years. Previous to nls trouble he resided Tn l West End.
 Refuses New Trial.
 The only other motion for a new | trial, heard and over-ruled by Judge | Thomas was in the case of Fred Falk ner, a negro, convicted for killing Az | ariah Simmons, alias Dummy Sim mons, deaf and dumb negro Falk- ner was found guilty of manslaughter ] in the first degree by the jury, and 1 sentenced to eight years Imprisonment Judge Thomas pronounced the sentence upon the prisoner. but suspended the science pending an appeal.
 In araigning fifty-three other pris- oners before him yesterday morning, Judge Thomas forcibly remarked on the very noticeable increase in the number of youthful criminals. and urg ed the parents and churches to do something toward diminishing the | number of young law violators. Ere quentiy during the sentencing, he paused 10 extend a short talk to the | prisoner before him.
 To Eugene Smell, the only white man otheT than Eugene Bowling who was sentehced, Judge homas extended wholesome advice IL was the second time Shell had been sentenced to the l penitentiary, and Judge Thomas urged him, after ercing this sentence, to go to another section of the country and start life anew. Shell was sentenced to twelve months and Z3S days hard labor for petit larceny.
 Robert Wilkerson, a young white man. convicted in two cases of petit
 
 fines before the sentence hour today and was released.
 Stewart Wilson. a negro, received a total of approximately two years in three cases of violating the prohibition law. His counsel took an appeal, pend Ing which Judge Thomas fixed his az gregate bond at $1.000. which Wilson was unable to make last night.
 List of Prisoners Sentenced.
 Following is a list of the prisoners sentenced. other than those mentioned
 Walter Morris, unlawfully changin2 name; ten months and twenty days hara labor.
 Joe Jackson. burglary: three years in penitentiary.
 | Willie Manuel, grand larceny; year and a day in penitentiary. Warren Rivers, grand larceny; year and a day in penitentiary.
 John Pierce, violating prohibition law; 300 days hard labor.
 Alex Bell. carrying concealed weap- on; 192 days hard labor.
 | Charlie Harris murder in the second degree; twenty years in penitentacy.
 Elmore Moore, murder in the second degree twenty years in the peniten- tiary, sentence suspended pending up- D.. al.
 March Jackson. assault and battery 25S days hard labor.
 | De Yampert Jeter and LucIus Jetcr robbery. ten years each in penitentiary
 McGruder Alexander, grand larceny year and a day in penitentary. Nora Adams, burglary; two years 1T penitentiary.
 I Essie Clark, receiving stolen pron'