Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-20
Will Hang June 29 for the Murder of J. P. Lindsey
 While He Slept
HEARTLESS SLAYER
 BUT 19 YEARS OLD
Hears Death Sentence With No Show of Emotion
 Other Matters
Special to the Silver Belt.

SOLOMONVILLE, April 19.-Thom- as Waddill, self-confessed slayer of J. P. Lindsey in the Graham mountains sev- eral months ago, was today given the extreme penalty for the crime. Death was the sentence imposed upon the young man by Judge E. w. Lewis. June 29 was the date set for Wad- .dill's hanging, and unless the wheels of justice are blocked by legal process before that date, Waddill will pay the penalty of his crime with his life at Florence, on that date.
 The youthful murderer, still in his minority, sat unmoved as the death Sen tence was pronounced upon him. When he made his final confession to the court, he apparently realized that he was placing the moose about his own neck and was prepared for the extreme penalty. In passing sentence, Judge Lewis showed more emotion than was manifest by the prisoner, as it was the first time in his legal career that he had imposed a sentence of death under such circumstances.
 Attorney J. M. McCollum, represent ing Waddill, made plea for clemency asking that owing to the youth of the defendant, the death penalty be not imposed.
 q appreciate the situation in which counsel finds himself, ' said the court in reply. However, the law has provided that the court, where a plea of guilty is entered must determine whether or not the sentence shall be that of death or of life imprisonment. It is no light responsibility thus imposed upon the court. The court has not lightly regard ed it. In fact it is a terrible responsi bility to send any man to his. Creator
 "The law, however, has provided that in certain cases man who has com mitted the crime of murder in the first degree must die. The fact that the prisoner is 19 years of age but adds to the hOrrid nature of the crime he has committed. He killed man well up in years, who was sleeping peacefully. It was the motiveless act of an assassin who had occupied the same room, slept and eaten with him. It seems that there can be no eXtenuation for such a crime. If the death penalty is ever to be inflicted, it must be inflicted in this case.
 "This man has repeatedly confessed to the killing. He has told various stories and has even gone so far as to implicate other persons in the killing, pointing to them as being jointly re- sponsible with him for the death of the deceased and now he says that he alone is responsible. What confidence ever could be reposed in his word hereafter9 Even should he point to man who was actually jointly responsible with him, if there is such a man, before he dies, he can disclose the name of that man, can disclose the information that will enable the territory to secure the evi- dence upon which a conviction can be had, but his word alone would neither add to nor detract from the confidence that the court or a jury might have in the guilt or innocence of such man. '
 It was with a husky voice that the court then read the death sentence to the prisoner.
 A jury was then called in the case of Rex Starten and H. J. Clark, not to try them, but to exonerate them. The