The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-19
JURY YOU'D NGGiH i
SAFE YOUNG CLAUDE
Miss N9ie Wisler, Young Noun
taineeys Sweetheart, Will Prob
ably lake Personal Appeal to
Executive - Waiting for -
Final XerdiSs
RI d NJ . Nd. VA. special.-

RI d VI o Nd. VA. Special
Memfs OF the jury which convict
ed Clap Swanson Allen of murder
In the 81 degree have signed a petit
ton a9nS that Governor Mann COM
mute I sentence.
higlct became known today ryhe.,
severJ gentlemen interested in the
case bched the city and filed the
paperwith officers and others who
are kdling the case.
Thpetition from the Jurors VIII
ibe pkented TO Governor Mann Mon
day brning. Whether he viii agree
to Il r word from the committee
Whft calls remains 10 be seen Gov
ernf Mann is today in Washington.
Yle II is not known positively
th4 is a possibility that Miss Nellie
WIZ the haneee Of the young
m taineer, VIII come TO see the Gov
erf ard make final appeal for the
sEtheart OF her childhood days
Hlch OF the work that has been
d4 IN the last few days was perform
efy Miss Wisler. VINO sees nothing
II bravery. manliness and devotion
rs father on the part of Claude
w She believes in him implicitly
aIt is proving her faith in him by
stf ns 20 save him from the death
mat is more. within the last week
n uton signed by hundreds of the
lflnS men of Carroll, Grayson
Yshington and Wythe counties
yers. doctors ministers, bankers
fslness men, farmers, educators and
i herS-has been prepared and is now
GOVERNOR.
II may be that the committee will
0t be able 10 meet the Governor.
no announced that he would MOI
ear any further argument on the
ase after last Friday, but there is
he hope that he will hear what is
, De said-especially as IT is known
nat much new and important weight
as been added to the petition.
l know that Governor Mann wants
do what is right in this and in all
ther matters, said an officer who
much interested IN saving Claude
lien from the death chair next Fri
ay morning. He has always striven
, do that. / believe that he will
eigh all this new matter carefully.
nd when he does that / believe that
lere is a good reason to think that
Will be convinced that the life of
he young man should not be for
stted to the State.
Claude Alien is young man. and
Q stood right and did what ninety
me out of every hundred men would
ave done-shot at the men who were
FOOTING AT his father
Indications are that GoVernorl Mann
III not allow the men to go td their
cath next Friday Belief is that he
III await till the trials of SidnA AL
n and Wesley Edwards have been
1mpleted. The verdict of thej Jury
the case of Sidna Allen may have
telling effect on the case 1ldpv in
IS hands
The sidna Allen jury Is drawll from
remote section OF the State-ote not
the LEAST affected by the clamok the
slaAon hip. the political feuds,S the
anding of the parties What ! that
erdict ellis be no one can tell al this
me. il the jury should declinl TO
I've SidDa Allen the maximum { SEN.
nee, then il VIII be a step In tire d.
sctioR or mitigating The extreme hen
~ for the first two men convictk Ed
The juries which have given ptlson
rms TO some or the men engaget gn
le shooting al Carroll coprthouse Mast
arch have upset the claim pfat there
As conspiracy. The State hhs a Ran-
1ned that idea IA It's prosecution. Nor
has accented pleas OF guilty Of ntur-
sr In the second degree from tw0 OF
he men who are known 10 have bken
IN that fair