The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-13
BEEMAN'S CASE BEFORE BOARD Asks to Have Sentence
 Committed. UXoRIcIDE SEEKS FOR MERCY Man Who Shot His Son on Easter
 Morn Wants Pardon. S ". IT sheets, Aged Painter, Who Killed His First Born Three Years Ago,
 Among the Twenty-scven
 Petitioners.
UxoRIcIDE SEEKS FOR MERCY

The State Board of Pardons will to- day consider twenty-seven applications for cIemency including one petition for commutation of A man sentenced to die August 16.
 Several petitions of great interest to Montgomery will be considered by the board and the application for commu- tation is that of Dave Beeman. the ne- gro uxoricide. under the death penalty, now awaiting the action of the board in the death cell at the Montgomery County jail.
 Beeman's case is well known in Montgomery. About year ago he took the life of his spouse by chopping her head to pieces with an axe. There are few more brutal murders in the history of Montgomery County, but Beeman has a plea of new evidence showing extenuation, and there have been strong forces at work for the negro.
 His case was brought prominently before the public by the sensational off, fer of his brother. negro preacher, to take his place on the gallows, because he, the brother, was more morally able to meet his Creator than the condemn ed uxoricide. This offer was speedily followed up by charges that Rev. Bee mans soul was not so lily white. as he had left Texas under cloud in connection with the purchase and non- d books.
 The Board, which is composed of the Attorney General, the Secretary of State. and the State Auditor, will meet at 10 o'clock today and the Beeman case will be one of the first to be dis posed Of.
 Jack Gable Wants Pardon.
 Another case of wide Montgomery interest is the petition of the negro. Jack Gable, convicted in Montgomery County and sentenced to serve. a life term in the penitentiary for complcity in the murder of MT. Grant, Mont gomery County storekeeper For this penalty two negroes who actually com mitted the murder were hung at a pulp lie hanging in the Montgomery County jail yard about twelve years ago.
 The story of the crime is readily re- called by Montgomerians. Mir. Grant was a storekeeper in a part of Mont gomery County inhabited almost en- tirely by negro farmers.
 MT. Grant grew unpopular with a certain clique of lawless negroes. He was called from his home one niglA by the negro Jack Gable, and asked to open his store that Gable might make some necessary purchases. On his way 60 the store he was shot and killed from ambush.
 Two negroes, brothers, were arrested, charged with the actual staying, while Jack Gable was charged with com plicity. The two murderers were hang ed and Gable was sent up for life. Re- gently he found a friend in Rev. V. J. Elliott of Montgomery who is seek ing a parole for the negro. He claims that the punishment of Gable has been adequate for his crime, if he commit ted any, and there is grave doubt he claims. as to his complicity in the crime at all. Gable has good record in the DenftentiaFV He is now au old man.
 For Staying His own Son.
 ". T. Sheets, the aged Montgomery painter, sent to the penitentiary for eight. years for manslaughter. also has a petition before the pardon board Sheets, three years ago, on Easter Sum- day. shot and killed his eldest son. while both men were under the inhu- ence of liQuor.
 The son and the father engaged in a drunken quarrel on the Red Bridge Road, and the father was attacked by his first born. Bricks were thrown at the old man from the street The son started to enter the house and as he did so Sheets drew a pistol and fired. The first shot killed his boy.
 He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received 8 sentence of eight years from the Criminal Division of the City Court of Montgomery.
 Another case of heart interest that will be considered by the Board today is the application for parole of J. D. Williams, white man .ofNBibb County. serving life term in the penitentiary for murder in the first degree.
 Williams. admittedly and premedi- tatedly, killed a man, but he claims that the man had violated the unwrit- ten law, and had invaded his home. He sought vengeance and the apan was slain
 
 of practically all the misery that the world can contain for man. is that of Henry Tice of Hale County. serving sentence of thirteen months for grand larceny. Tice was convicted of steal- ing a watch. valued at SEQ.
 He has received word at the peni- tentiary that his wife is in delicate health. penniless and his children are homeless and in want
 Other applications are as follows: Lewis Owens, Bibb County, burglary; Nick alias Charlie Leggett. Clarke County, murder; Fred Harrington, Jef- ferson County, grand larceny; Nolan Cirissom, Lauderdage County, assault to murder; Fred Byram, Jefferson County, manslaughter; Will Vines, Tuscaloosa County, carnal knowledge; William Hall, Clarke County, carnal knowledge; Mary Sherer, Jefferson County, assault to murder; E. J. Neighbors, Shelby Souhty' Hurueri James h' AdrrenoIe, Jefferson County, grand larceny; Will Tidwell Jefferson County. murder; James Tatum, Autauga County murder; James Ledbetter, Jackson County mur- der; R. F. Wooden. Shelby County, murder; James and Isaac Paradise, Jackson County, murder; Wash Pugh, Barbour County, murder.
 Secretary of State Julian has received number of letters and telegrams from counsel indicating their intention of coming before the Board