The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-26
Harry Nolan, Cumberland
Youth Who Killed Alice
Litten, Unmoved.
WATCHES FUNERAL
FROM HIS CELL
Athletic Looking, Prisoner Declares
He Murdered Slight Girl in
Self-DefenSe.
By KATHERINE LENOx.

CUMBERLAND, Nd. June 26-Ner-
vously pacing his cell, but seemingly
enjoying the temporary IimeIight Harry
{ Nolan, eighteen years old. confessed
murderer of Alice Brown I.itten. cir
one year his junior, spent his first sun
day in the Allegany county jail here to
day.
Late yesterday. after the youth had
been refused permission 10 view the
body Of his victim or TO attend her fu-
neral, Nolan peeped through the iron
bars 10 a winding street. Just a few
rods distant. where passed a funeral
cortege. a hearse bearing the mutt
lated body OF Alice Brown Litten moved
al it's head
He had no word Of regret to say.
Apparently his only concern was that
he had not been permitted 70 look again
upon a body which he left, after the
last breath was gone" three nights ago.
within a hundred yards Of the girls
home.
In the beginning # must be said that
the story is a sOrdid one. staged in a
section Of Cumberland where the bet
ter things Of life are practically un-
known and where there prevails not the
Many Of those who came TO gaze unon
Alice Litten's body said that she was
a girl who hadn't had a chance. Per
haps the ultra-sympathetic may at
tempt TO condone Nolan's crime upon
the same theory. But, pacing the floor
Of his cell today, Nolan presented none
Of the attributes that might encourage
one whit Of this kind Of eXOneratiOn.
Face Clear Cut
His face is clear cut, his eyes are
bright. and they meet yours vith per
feet fraRkness. His complexion is as
clear IS that which abeioues 60 any
virile youth Of eighteen. Ills eyes are OF
kindly blue and in them turks no sus-
picion of the malevoIent CLEAN that one
might expect to find in a murderer He
is fair barred and. as boys reared IN the
country 90. on the whole he is rather
good 10 look upon.
Barring d slight stooD OF the Shout
deIs. he seems the perfect physical man,
standing six feet one inch.
And yet Nolan says that the girl he
slashed to death at midnight, after they
had started upon stroll, was about 10
tale his life. She was q girl OF but lit
tie mere than five feet, Weighing I'D
pounds and attractive.
NoIaL's family would excuse his deed
or the plea Of insanity. Three physicians
came 10 the Jail last night and put him
through the tests that are generally
.UseC 10 prove a man rational or ira
tionaL Cumberland eagerly awaited
their verdict today but Cumberland
takes out little stock in the insanity
plea Nolan himself simply says Self
defense and lets it go at that
Crime a Brutal One.
No more brutal crime hardly can be
imagined than ,hat IN which this Nolan
and his victim figured. II was committed
on the commons, an open space in South
CUWbcl land, where the children played
that day and murder was done that
night
They had all been drinking. a party
of young folks at the girls home. so
Nolan's story goes In his confession
Moan ratified of number of details
as 20 tine earlier events Of the evening.
He told OF meeting Alice LItceu and
her baby. Alice was married two years
ago and the honeymoon lasted one
day. Mrs. Brown says that her daugh-
ter and her husband o. one day we're
about 20 be recouciIed and that the
little family of three was TO be re-
united. Nolan knew this and Nolan
was Jealous, SO the people Of South
Cumberland win tell YOU
Any way, he picks up the narrative
where Alice Brown Litten and one of
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