Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-08
BUY ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY
 F|XEOBY JURY
Nineteen Year Old Lad Re- ceiveS the CIemency of Act ing Governor Young Who Gives Reasons

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 Joy was brouht to the hearts of the Waddin family of Graham county Sat urday night by the issuance of a proc lamation by Acting Governor George U. Young for the pardon of Thomas waddin. who was under sentence for death on June a. Waddill's sen tenee was commuted to fifteen years in the penetentiary.
 Acting Governor Young sets forth the reasons for granting executive clemency. and a brief review of the crime as follows:
 To All ta Whom These Presents Shall
 Come, IIT1c..ing;
 In this c0mmutation | have no eX- cuse to make nor apologies to offer
 Society blindly gropes its way through the gloom cast by the mental ities of the centuries past. The req son why, is the subject of intense in- terest. but not one pertinent here.
 Every official Is a public servant. and he should so consider himself. yet excepting an individual flash here and there in the seething vortex of hu- manity's evolution not until this day has the faintest tracing of this truth been discernible on the eastern hor- izon of mans destiny.
 As the acting governor and pub lie servant, an explanation of why ] do this is due society and the public fin general. If we have proven our selves sufficiently fearless to perform the act, and so fair as to give you the reason why, you. this public of Ari- zona. as my court and jury. dare not render your verdict against me with out a fair trial and pause sufficient ly long to think. reason and make impregnable deductions.
 When you have done this, and then if the verdict be against me. l am absolutely willing to assume the re sponsibility and pay the penalty
 Few minds at % will stand the test of the mental gauge of 40. Solitude is the hardest known test when ap- piled to the mind Many do not know, but there be those among the pioneers of Arizona and in other new countries who appreciate and know the eccen- tricities and different species of in- sanity, if you please, with which sol itude taints practically every mind at 70 that has spent its middle and de clining years in the silence of the desert or mountains.
 The history of this boy. traced even
 his prenatal existence, has been given me by one in whom l put the most explicit confidence. and one whom by his finite record. I am sure stands immensely credited in the court of the infinite. and in making this assertion eliminate the god Of the weak, the emotional. the sentimental, the illogical and the coward. The re- suit of this careful investigation has been given me in the following words Thomas Waddill. sentenced to be hanged the last Friday in June, for fatally shooting and old man known as Uncle Jim Lindsay, was born in the mountains Of Graham county, Ar ! izon. barely 19 years ago. His par | ents were simple country people of i little education and of limited means making the living of their family of several children from a small mount ain ranch.
 After he was six years old. the boy ! was sent to school, more or less, to 1 the little log sehoolhouse at Pima until he was twelve. when he was needed to help his parents on the 1 ranch. The country around his home was thinly settled and the community of the most primitive type. His asso ciates were boys as uneducated and undevelOped as himself. and the worA which he did was of the rough sort ] that does not develop skill of hand or alertness Of mind.
 His experience was so limited tha he had never seen a town of any size until after his arrest. and his knowl edge of people and life was limited entirely to the neighborhood in whicl he was born and had grown up
 None of the safeguards and none O the means of training and develop
 ment with which modern civilization seeks 10 surround a growing boy came
 in his way-all he knew was har'
 work. rough surroundings and the un
 restrained eompanionship of boys a untrained as himself
 Yet nothing really bad is known O
 his boyhood up to this great trag CeutelInial le