The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Henry Rose Sentenced to Thirty
Years in the Fort Madison Peni-
Tertiary for the Murder of
Charles cutwright.
HIS REMARKABLE NERVE
The Court Considers His Good Previ-
GUS Record and Also the Wan
tonness of His Crime
of Last FALL

While the penitentiary doors slow
ly swung open to receive him for
thirty years. Henry Rose stood abso
lutely motionless as an iron statue,
not even changing in the least the ex-
preston OF his face, nor moving his
eyes In the slightest degree
The tall, rather good looking negro
stood facing Judge Withrow in the
district court room this morning for
full ten minutes while sentence was
being pronounced as the climax to
dissertation upon his crime and its
relation to society. One long arm
ran down to table on the corner
of which the tips of his fingers rest
ed; the other hand hung at his side
holding his hat. His eyes never wav-
cred in the least from the face of the
Judge. His expression was one of
perfect composure-exactly like that
of man who is being presented with
gold headed cane who is used to
public presentations. Actually, the
immobility of the man and the stead
mess of his gaze reminded specta-
tor of the attitude of President Roose-
welt the time something was present
ed to him on the platform in Rand
park. At the end, Henry Rose walked
out OF the court room with deputy
sheriff without a change of expression,
and apparently only a disinterested
spectator of the tragic scene Just en-
acted there.
Has Had Good Record.
In the beginning, his attorney, Hon
John p. Craig, spoke very few, but
very forceful words to the court. Mr.
Craig said that for the sixteen years
that Rose had lived in Keokuk, he
never got into any trouble until that
night last fall when he killed Charles
Outright on upper Main street: that
Rose has been hard working and
reliable colored man all his life and
regrets the occurrences of that night,
while he fully realizes the gravity of
his offense against society and the
man he killed.
Rose is forty eight years old and his
attorney asked that the past record of
the man be considered by the Judge.
and that the punishment be not made
too drastic for him
The sentence finally given Rose will
free him in about seventeen years, if
he gets the usual credit for good be
hayior at Fort Madison This will
make him sixty-five years old when he
gets out, If he lives that long.
The Slimness Of Hope.
You have wantonly taken a human
life began Judge Withrow, wher
Rose stood motionless before him fol
sentence on his plea Of guilty tc
murder in the second degree. The
court went on to say that by the ples
of guilty. Rose had saved the count,
the trouble of trial, but on the facts
of record a jury would certainly have
been justified in imposing the highes
penalty for murder. Recounting how
Rose had become involved in a trivia
quarrel over trivial matter with Cut
got revolver, had returned with th,
gun and assaulted and finally killet
Cutwright, Judge Withrow said ~
was deliberate and unprovoked muir
der"
The sacredness Of human life AM
the right feeling of the public abou
this was spoken of, and then the judg
said
81 would not wipe out any hope yo
may have of your own betterment
but necessarily, in such case, sue
hope is largely eliminated from you