The copper era., 1910-04-29
TO DIE ON GALLONS.
WaddiII Sentenced to Be Hung June 20ih
 For the Murder of Lindsey.

The following taken from the Saf- ford Guardian is interesting for the emotions shown by the judge while giving his first death sentence. We have all wondered at times perha ps just how a judge has felt in case of this kind and are apt to believe that he gives out sentences of death with about as much emotion as we feel while eating our meals. We are glad to find that they are "human' after all.
 Thomas Waddill, who confessed that he alone had killed James P. Lindsey, as he lay asleep on his bed in the Graham mountains last Janu ary, was brought into court for sen tence April l2th.
 June 29th was the date set for Waddill to be hung by the neck until ne is pronounced dead, and the terri torial prison at Florence the place for execution Of sentence.
 Waddill sat unmoved as the death sentence was pronounced upon him, apparently prepared for the extreme sentence.
 Judge Lewis showed more emotion than the murderer, while passing sen tence, this. being the first time for him to impose the sentence Of death.
 Waddill's attorney, J. M. McCo!- lum, made strong plea for elem ency, asking that on account of his youth the death penalty be not im- posed.
 q appreciate the situation in which counsel finds nimself," said the court in reply. '.i IVY %. the law has provided that the court, where a plea of gully is entered, must determine whether or not the sentence shall be that of death or of life imprisOn- lS-nt It is no light responsibility thus imposed upon the court. The court has not lightly regarded it. In fact it is a terrible possibility to send any man to his Creator.
 "The law, however, has provided that in certain cases a man who has committed the crime of murder in the first degree must die. The fact that the prisoner is but nineteen years of age but adds to the horrid nature of the crime he has commit ted. He killed a man we'll up in years, who was sleeping peacefully. It was the motiveless act of an as- sassin who had occupied the same room, slept and eaten with him. It seems there can be no extenuation for such a crime. If the death pen atty is ever to be inflicted, it must be inflicted in this case.
 "This man has repeatedly confess ed to the killing. He has told vari- ous stories and has even gone so far as to implicate other persons ln the killing, pointing to them as being jointly responsible with him for the death of the decea-ed and now he says that he alone is responsible. What confidence 1T could be re- posed in his word hereafter? Even should he point to man who was actually jointly responsible with him, if there is such man, before he dies, he can disclose the name or that man, can disclose the lntorma- tion that will enable the territory to secure the evidence upon which a convection can be had, but his word alone would neither add to nor de- tract from the confidence that the court or jury might have in the guilt or innocence of such man."
 It was with husky voice that the court read the death sentence to the prisoner.
 A jury was called in the cases of Rex Startin and H. J. Clark, which was instructed by Judge Lewis to bring in a verdict of acquittal of both men. The verdict Of the jury completely eXonerates Startin and Clark from complicity in the crime.