Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-08

edy; and there seems to be no doubt that the crime for which he is under sentence of death was one of those sudden obsessions which physicians who have studied mental phenomena know to be Gin various forms) not infrequent in young people approach ing maturity; a momentous, overmas- tering impulse to some act which is repented as soon as done.
 Even education and the restraint of refined and favorable surroundings do not always furnish the self-control to hold the impulse in check. Tom WaddIl had none of these restraints and the impulse which for a moment took possession of him with such ia tai results came as the climax of a long series of sever seedlings in which the old man called the boy many of the names which grown men have more than once resented by killing the. man who dared to use them.
 Ignorant, untrained. undeyeloped in mind, yet bitterly conscious of the injustice and insult to which he felt that he had been subjected. the boy was swept out of himself by an over whelming wave of anger and resent ment, and committed the act which five minutes later filled him with hor- TOT and remorse-
 'ODe can imagine in what a night mare of fear and horror the boy sad dled his horse and rode away to give himself up to the officers of the law. He made no attempt to conceal his crime and after the first supreme az. ony and wild effort to escape the aw- ful thing he had done. he faced the issue bravely and took the full respon- sibility.
 His poverty and ignorance and the poverty and ignorance of his people made impossible such defense as an- other might have made He was too stunned by his own act. which seemed some awful dream more than a real ity, to do other than to accept humbly the sentence of the court. Even in the face of death his chief thought was for his people. to whom he had brought sorrow and disgrace; for the old father and mother and the wid- dowed sister who needed his help. Back somewhere in his uniformed childish mind there is a dogged cour- age still trying to keep things from being any harder for the folks at home.
 Now, no man will say that crime will go unpunished. or that a dan gerous criminal shall be turned loose upon the community; but there is the full width of human development be tween this childish. ignorant boy oi 19, consumed with horror at his rash act. and the full-witted. hardened crim inal who plots to repeat his crime.
 He has suffered more than enough in the months in jail and the weeks in prison under death sentence to make any mans life safe in his hands. h the agony of remorse he has devel oped that sense of respOnsibility which all the surroundings of his life and which his birth itself had de nied him-for our civilization today denies 10 many a boy the right tC be born strong in mind and body when it makes mothers slave as thi. boys mother d-udged before he came into the world
 Granting that socitety has tn, right 10 protect itself from any dan gerous man even by his death. soci ety can yet afford one more chance tC the man who is weak and repentant Still more can society afford one more chance to a boy weak and repentant- and whose mind and soul have awak ened to responsibility out of horrol at his own action"
 These being the facts as above re lated
 Now, theriOre. l. George '. Young acting governor of Arizona. by virtu, of the power and authority vested il me by law in that be half. do hereb, l commute the sentence of death to b, executed on the last Friday in Jua' | or the 2ith day thereof 1910. on thu said Thomas Waddin, to an imprisou ment of 15 years in the territorla penetentiary at Florence. Arizona. tt date from the said Friday in June, O the 24th day therof. 1910
 In witness whereof I have hereunt ] set my hand and caused the grea ! seal of the territory to be affixed ] Done at the city of Phoenix. tn , capital this 4th day of June. 1910 By the acting governor. (SeaD GEORGE IT. YOUNG 1 R. BIDDfNGS,
 Acting Assistant Secretary of Arizona