The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-01
SYMPATHY BONDS
 IN PRISON CELL
UMANN, UNDER DEATH PEN ALTY VERDICT, FINDS soLAcE /
 WITH j. B. COLLIER.
"Tomb of the Living Dead' is Quoted by Collier as Plea for Sympathy
 from the Outside World.

| Although alone and apart from the solace of single friendship or sympa- thiser during the trial in court wlich culminated in jury verdict that will carry him to the gallows to be le- gally executed for the murder of his wife, Clarence A. Schumann finds sympathy and friendship in his prison | cell
 J. B. Collier. a prisoner charged with forgery, a sentimentalist, and either poet or splendidly equipped plagarist, is the friend of Sclumann, not that Collier declares Schumann l innocent, or would defend the act that placed him under the death penalty but that in misery there is commis- eration, and in commiseration there I is sympathy and endearment. | That Schumann had undertaken re- l ligion, and is already preparing aim self for the certain fate that awaits him, is a hastily drawn conclusion, | for while Schumann apparently en- joys the sympathy of the fellow pris- oners, and takes interest in their songs, yet in moments of passion he flies into fury and heaps maledicsions 
 trial that ended in his conviction.
 Collier said yesterday: l We dcn't look on Schumann, the slayer, but on him as the unfortu- nate that has fallen in our midst. The night the jury was out, up stairs on his case, We waited impatiently to l hear the verdict, and we sang songs and prayed that the verdict would be a righteous one. Carter and Simp- son and all of us joinel in Death is only a Dream" aud Softly, Tenderly, Jesus is Calling We read few verses, and we prayed for the soul l if Schumann. just as we still pray for his soul and our own souls
 Collier describes how the boys in jail prayed that Schumann would get a proper verdict. and they found sol ace that there is One yet who says: I''Come unto me, all that are weak and Iheavy laden, and l will give you rest" And who says further: Be not afraid, for l am with you unto the end of the world" And why can't we, like Paul, though in jail, still pray for our brothers who are at liberty to walk the streets in freedom, but who have no time to think or pray for the souls of us who are incarcerated in the tomb of the living dead
 Then Collier offers this verse, splen didly penned in even lines. though done in jail and under difficult circum stances:
 "The Tomb of the Living Dead" Here in the land of the stern command The home of fear and dread, The weeping eye, the long drawn sigh The tomb of the living dead. Here in the gloom of a coming doom We think of the days that have fled Of life in days past, that has brought
 us at last To the tomb of the living dead. Here in the gloom of the living tomb Strong hearts have broken and bled Yet the world goes by without a sigh For the souls of the living dead.
 Oh, merciful God, wilt Thou not spare
 the rod
 From above a defenseless head? , And give from above of Thy bountifu
 love
 To the souls of the living dead. No love, no life, from the world oi strife,
 Come 10 tell us our friends have no fled,
 Our prayers are in vain, we are bowed in shame
 In the tomb of the living dead.
 But look away far, can see BetheFs star
 Der the mount upon which Jesus bled He died on the cross that none migh
 be lost
 in the tomb of the living dead.
 When Jesus is near we need not to feai If by Him we shall wish toBe led. He will guide us alright, he will lea(
 us to light,
 From the tomb of the living dead. He's coming, He's coming. glad tidingi
 to bring.
 He is coming to plead in our stead. We can all shout and sing as w
 march Mith the king
 From the tomb of the living dead.
 hancAkmN knnTICE