The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
RIGBY GOES
 UP FOR LIFE The Close Trial in
 Wsti ipka. YOUNG BOY FOUND GUILTY End of Trial for Murder of Bill
 Mccain.
The Yeathfui Criminal stood Before Judge Brewer amd Smiled Az Heavy Sentence Was Pass-
 cd On Him.
aY WILL T. sHEEHAN.

wetumpka, Nov. 1e.--(speciaI Cor respondence. 1--GuHty, guilty. with a punishment of life Imprisonment. Neil Rigby charged with the murder of William Mccain stood up in court this morning and heard & jury of his peers. brand him as a murderer who should be cut of from society for the re- mainder of his life,
 He heard the terrible verdict and smiled. If there was aught of fear, anght of remorse in his heart he fail ed to show it. He smiled. too, when Juege Brewer formally passed upon hiik the sentence which the jury had directed.
 human being shall be shut up in four walls and shut of from every human association and every human joy and Judge Brewer uttered the words of the sentence solemnly. but Nell Rigby smiled.
 The prisoner is no more than a boy. He is certainly under 21, and his face is innocent of beard. The face is not good one. nor Is 1t a bad one But for a positive suggestion of will pow CT and determination the face would be stolId and empty. But this hint of determination, and the prominent curv- ed nose of the man who loves a fight Is the truest indication, of the real character of Neil Rigpy for the evi- dence in this case has shown him of that stun of which bad men and des- peradoes are made.
 He hasn't the evil reputation of his brother Bill Rigby, for his years have not been so many as Bilfs. but that this slender, ignorant country lad could grow into the had man, who uhn fn uH une Na tIcular as to whether the other man had fair chance in the fight is not to be doubted by any who heard the witness from the stand tell Of the things he had said and done.
 During his trial he us worn Q care- less and indifferent but not bragg gadocfo air. As he stood to r8eeiva his sentence today tlte sentence ilich Is next 10 the death sentence, he could have in appearance been oonsfaered a type of the country boy from the hill who knows little of school and who has seen little of the outside world.
 He could have been a country boy of the hills dressed in his best store bought clothes to go to a neighborhood picnic or fish fry. His white hair was plastered over his forehead above hls light blue eyes. About his neck was the celluloId collar and the stringy red negk JIG WulCa SOmeQoW are associated with ideas of masculine finery in the remote country districts.
 Verdict at 9 O'Clock.
 The jury got the case about o'clock Friday night The verdict was brought into court about 9 o'clock this morning after the jury had been out for thirteen hours. The verdict was. however. actually agreed upon shortly after midnight The jury when 1t first went out voted four for hang ing and eight for life Imprisonment The second ballot resulted in a vote Of three for hanging and nine for life Imprisonment. A few minutes after midnight the turymen agreed on a life imprisonment sentence and went to bed.
 The verdict ih the main meets popu. lar approval. There were those who thought that perhaps the Circumstan. ttal evidence was not strong enough for a conviction, but plainly the jury differed with them. No Elmore County man at all familiar with the case, or with the parties concerned in 1t, doubt that the hand of some Rigby held tha gun that sent Deputy Sheriff Mccain iato eternity. But the deed was done at night and no man of certainty knows it's author. From the evidence, 1t is possible for any one of four men to have played the part of assassin and pulled the gun trigger in the dark.
 Through circumstantial evidence, but to the satisfaction of the jury, the State worked out its theory that Nell Rigby, Bill Rigby, John Rigby and their brother-in-law, Jack Short, stalk cd and hunted down William Mccain as though he was a wild animal, and when they once had him located and in a trap from which there was no escape, gave him no more chance than they would have given a wild animal.
 The four are under indictment, and Allen Rigby. the old father of the three boys. stands under the same aw- ful indictment of murder.
 sent to Montgomery.
 Tn passing sentence today, Judge Brewer directed that the five men un- der charge of murder be carried to the Montgomery County Jail for safe keeping. The Wetumpka jail was not deemed safe enough for them. Bill Rigby was put in the Wetumpka jail last July, when he was only charged with assault with intent to murder. But he knocked down the negro who brought him his food and successfully got away.
 Because of this first arrest, Deputy Sheriff Mccain was shot to death from out of the darkness. It was he who arrested Bill Rigby. He brought him to Wetumpka, tied and hand-cutfed And from that time he was an object Of marked hate from every member of the Rigby family and he was in dan ger whenever a Rigby was within gun shot of him.
 When the other Rigbys arc put on trial, which will not be until next spring, unless Judge Brewer should see fit to call another session of couri' when they are put on trial the lawyers of the State will attempt to prove thdt Allen Rigby. In Ketnucky feud style called about him in the back yard of his home and sworc them to vengeance against Bill Mccain, who had arrested his son. Attorneys for the State aver that he said, No man can tie my son up like a hog and live"
 Tbree- Sons Handcuned. If he satd such a thing. as the pro- scouting officers of the State say. the | other cases will show. if he said such a thing. the sights of this present court must have burned into his soul ] For he saw not one son, but he saw three, handcured and tied. He saw