The Washington herald., 1908-02-09
One Attracts Sympathy by
His Literary Efforts.
INTERESTS GOVERNOR HOCH
Carl Arnold, Life Prisoner in Kan
sas PenitentiaFy, Proves He Has
Verse-Friend VIII Profit aS Result.
Serving Eighteen Years for Murder.

''N''e' ~ AilN lDlihtif AuitAs eAtcu anu NS
veloped during more than a decade as q
convict. More than thirteen years ago AR
mold and Harvey. then boys OF less thar
twenty years. We're convicted of the mur
Ter Of Mayor John Marsh at Kinsley anC
sentenced 10 death
Under tine Kansas law the governor
must first sign a death warrant befor,
The death penalty can be imposed. As
no Kansas governor has for years signed
such warrant. death sentence in Kan.
ias is equivalent 90 a sentence 10 life i'm
orisonment in the State Penitentiary at
Lansing where the law requires thai
condemned convicts be taken to Jawait
he signing of the death warrant by thC
States chief executive.
While visiting at Lansing seYera
months ago the attention of Gov. Hocl
vas attracted 10 Arnold. on whom thC
authorship OF "a book entitled "The Kan
ias Inferno. had just been fastened by
he prison officials, The book deals with
he Kansas prison system. and was writ.
en- by Arnold during his Imprisonment
several poems written by the convict
we're also shown 10 the governor.
Governor Likes Poem.
One poem, which IS as follows. did
more to hasten the exercise Of olemeney
~ the governor than had the protests
# all the citizens of Kinsley done to de-
ay it:
I caunot fsvuingy imploTe
4, feeble false hearts can;
But IN humility before
The power that bars my prison door
/ plead as man TO man.
ga folly more than vice appears
In errors we have made.
The ideal thst'the man rcyercs
Is not jhe dnam oi carly years
Youth brief delusiJus fade
fhueh hearts cmhit1erad uIl Htain
sradge for old mistakes.
Excessive penalties are vain
Tie long mouolony of pain
No restitution makes.
The ancient eye for eye decree
tod has Himself DESTROYED.
shl speaks that Voice from Calvary.
Shall shocks gith their ghulish Plea
1laka this commandment yoidg
A., blessed are the merrifui.
Oh Christiau heart TglCuti
For slis Of foih. faults of Til
kuCel az AIsuE tribunal
'~ftTite pcuiteul.
Long haee I tesn with sorrow. Long
Tho ag1Hizing ygsr.
Have held no freight Of love. and song,
And laughter -ouly Jain and wrong.
And Izmleuca and tcaTs.
The c1ar-e Seal bat lightly feels
The daily dole of li.
blt what df-tfe-s each hour reveals
For linn who Ia his heart oouessIs
Some asl iTati0us Still.
For balne ard love for lNsrtv
To ton as free men car.
Oh. Hand Of Fate thar bars % me
The Ates Of Opportunity
plead AS man 90 man.
should he Free, Says Hoch.
why that man should be free and at
ached to the editorial STAFF Of some maE-
zine, remarked Go. Hoch, in comment
lg on the case after he had familiarized
imself with Arnold's accomplishments.
he governor began a thorough investi-
alton OF the case. He found that the
iuzens Of Kinsley we're suu bitterly op-
osed to the release of Arnold and Har-
ey This opposition was not unnatural
ither. when the crime Of which the two
oung men We're guilty is considered.
They had been together fin Oklahoma
hen but recently opened to settlement.
nd were returning 10 the homes Of their
arents in one Of the Western Kansas
ounties adjoining Edwards, Of which
linsley is the county seat When they
cached Kinsley. where they camped for
he night, both We're out Of money. They
cid up Mayor Marsh, with the intention
f robbing him. Marsh resisted and was
iled. Whether Arnold or Harvey killed
be mayor has never been definitely es-
Escape Being Lynched.
The two young men were captured the
ext morning and narrowly escaped
They would have been lyrched
ad it not been for the assurances of
amuel ". Vandivert. then district Judge
t Kinsley, but now practicing attorney
I New York. Judge Yandivert made
peedy arrangements for the trial of Ar
old and Harvey, sentenced them to death.
nd pledged the angry citizens that he
-0uld come to Topeka and personally in
st that Gov. Morrill, sign the death war
ant for the execution OF the two young
zen. This for time allayed sentiment
nd prevented mob violence.
Judge Vandivert did visit Gov Morrill,
nd insist that the death penalty be i'm
osed, but Gov Morrill, would not sign
ne warrant People at Kinsley were
realty incensed at the governor, and
he intense feeling against Arnold and
Iarvey has never subsided.
Gov. Hoeh, intensely interested in Ar
old, felt that the sentiment at Kingsley
-as largely based on resentment and was
avengeful in its nature. With this spirit
l the treatment Of criminals he has little
r no patience. Believing that both young
len will make good citizens. he has COM
luted their sentences to eighteen years
] the penitentiary each.
WIZ Get Out In april.
The men viii be released in April. In
peaking Of Arnold's ease the other day.
Ov. Hoch SAID:
My attention was first attracted to Ar
old by his hook When I next visited
ansing I asked to see him, curious to
now the manner of man who had writ
N so Well At first meeting he did not
npress me greatly. A few days after my
aturn to Topeka I received a letter from
i'm which reawakened my interest, as it
ldicated the mans mentality"
The letter received by Coy Hoch from
rnold, now part Of the pardon files
the executive Offices is as follows:
Dear Governor: Being an emotional
)ol ] could profit but little by the inter
lew with which you favored me. and