Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-22
MADE CONFESSION
 ON GALLONS Pleas Hoodo, Nebro Rapist, Pays Penalty of His
 Awful Crime. T HAVE BEEN A FIEND' Makes Declaration Before Death and Asked to Be Admitted Into
 Heaven
T HAVE BEEN A FIEND'


 Hoodo, the negro charged with crim- inal assault upon the person of white woman, after enticing her to the Kempner Theater with the prom ise that she could get job by going, died today on the scaffold in the at tic of the Pulaski county jail With a declared that he had also been guilty of the other charges that were recited against him.
 T know I am guilty, Father, but let me go to heaven were the words he uttered just before the trap was sprung by Sheriff Roberts Foodo showed remarkable coolness- through out the ordeal of being dressed, and by the spiritual advice of three He groes he seemed sustained more than anyone would have expected. He said in prayer:
 Blessed Father, l have been a fiend but I could not help it.
 He remembered his sisters and brothers in his prayer an6 prolonged 1t far beyond the time set, After Deputy Sheriffs Reichardt and Alnutt had applied the strappinss Deputy Sheriff Hawkins applied the noose and at 1:3S the trap was sprung by Sheriff Roberts. At } ?. m. the at- tending physicians, -Drs. D. E. Harda- man, c. E. Sheppard and M. Barger pronounced him dead by strangula- ton
 Before the march to the scaffold 1, was begun, after the religious cese- monies had been completed in the cell, Deputy Sheriff Dick Alnutt read the governors proclamation daclin- ing to interfere ill the verdict of the courts.
 Hoodo assisted the officers in plac- ing his clothes on and after the min-
 ister had gone through with the form of washing his feet and other relig ous rites he also helped to place his socks and shoes on.
 The attorneys who defended him called on him at the jail this morn- ing and told him that all had been done for him that could be done, but if he was guilty it might do him some good ill the hereafter to tell all the truth.
 It was then that ne made the con fession for the first time and told all the details of the crime for which he Was convicted by the jury. None of the court officials ever had much doubt of his guilt, but he talked manfully for his life and fram- ed up a story when Judge Lea sen- tenced him that sounded plausible to some, but convinced none.
 It will be remembered that he had confessed to the jailer on the night he was arrested by Constable Jones and his deputies and placed in jail, and the jailer, who is man of splendid reputation, testified when the negro was on trial that he had said to him:
 Well, am guilty and will have to take my medicine"
 Then it will be remembered that Constable Jones declared on the wit ness stand that Hoodo had hid in the room of the theater building and when he was finally pulled out, said.
 q know what you want me for, but I did not do it."
 Before he was hanged todsy Htodo was given a nice dinner Of chicken. cake and wine. and seemed to enjoy it. He is reported to have slept we'll last night. There was rot a oobb;e of any sort in the execution, the ne- gro being we'll strapped and bound erd sped down as the trep door fell nd ioH of 9 0'a