Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-29
M WAY HAS ACUTE
 APPENDICITIS Doctors Were Called to At tend Him at the County
 Jail Last Night.
is Taken Under td,iSement There tOndemned Man
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 Deci>ion on Monday.

1 Washington, D C. 2S.-Justic.s' ; Vandnventer, in the United StaJes > Supreme Ccurt, tod y took under * aivisement until Monday the ap- ; 1 * plica, on. Of Attorney Lewis & i Rhoton, of Little Rock, for writ x of :rror in the case of John M. % McVay. un5er death sentence in :" * Jefferson conn y, Arkansas. for '" * the murder Of ]. w. Ethridge. * * $: $. :: ;: :: ;: :: * a * ;: :: John M. McVay, sentenced t2 die on the galloWs in his city next Fri day for toe. murder of J. W. Eth- ridge, was extended by phys clans iE t..e county jail last night and is said to be suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis. Ii Sheriff Brewster will permit t, the condemned man, if he grcws worse. today. may be talk ell to the D3vis Hospital to undergo an oDeraticn. although the prisoner himself is said to he strongly oppos- ed to his removal from the county iail or h,s being put under the sur geon's knife. At midnight last night he was suffering intense pain and ice bags were applied to the right side of the abdomen .n an effort to relieve him.
 At 10 o'clock !. st night Frank N. Hall. the young S. Louis lumber man N'so is awaiting trial on forS- cry charge. called Jailer James Reid ;neer up sta Is in the jail and told him that McV:y was seriously ill. Jailer Reidinger investigated and found McVay writhing in ia Il on his bunk in his cell. He hurriedly call ed Dr. Asa Brunson, cC1nty physlc- ian, who soon arrived with Dr. Harry F.. Williams Jr. They exam ned Che patient snd applied ice bags and left him
 Dr. Brunson said that he was sat isfied that McVay had appendicitis and he sa d that he would be moved to fine Davis Hospital for an operation he did not improve. Dr. Will Hams made no statement for publlca- tion. At Ii o'clock Dr. Rrunson and Dr. H. E. Williams Sr., sitea McVay again. They found him no better. but no preparations were made >o t2ke him to the hospital. It was doubtful if Sheriff Edgar Brewster would permit the prisoner to be talk en from the county jail, although ne made no statement for publ cation along that lins. Jailer Raidinger de- clared that McVay YVES "pretty SICK and that he was suffering consider ably at midnight.
 McVay had many visitors during the dav. H $ aged father and mother came from Monticello and spen sometime with him in his cell. The! 1 showed great sorrow over the though that their son was condemned to die but the aged man, who is Baplls ! minister, encouraged hs son an( n,e.ded with him to be strong an( not give way. After many requesN from McVay, District Attorney I 11avis Nixon finally consented yester day to visit m and hear what h' had 10 tell him. McVay, In "i
 ,rosonce of Sheriff Brewster and ;
 representative of the Gr2pAlc, pleaa ed with the states attorney to Tn tercede in his behalf and save nl ,.fe He reviewed the tragedy Il inc court house more than yea
 aoo in detail, trying to convince th
 Dis;rict Attorney that he was no
 ou;]tv of any knowledge of the alleg
 ad conspiracy and offered 'physlca facts " as he termed them, to make
 n]ain that he did not re shot "hel Ethridee was killed. McVay tlnall
 broke down and wept like baby an
 tho srene was so pitiful that Distrn
 Attorney Nixon gave vent to hls reel
 nos and hurriedly left the jail wlt
 his eyes filled with tears.