Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05
Frank Palmer, of RusselIviIIe,
Ala, After EIuding officers for
Almost Quarter of Century, VOL
unfairly Surrenders in Texas.
Goaded by Conscience and Tired
of Living a Fugitive's Life, Dave
GIenn's Slayer Stands Ready to
Pay Penalty for Transgression.

RUSSELLVILLE, ALA. Oct -
Frank Palmer. of Franklin Coui-SS-s,
who had been sought by officers of
the law for - years presents a
unique figure in that he has given
himself up 10 the law and wishes to
be tried for the murder of Dave
Glenn, whose mutilated body was
found in a pike road near here in
1891
Palmer was living in Dallas Coun-
ty in the Texas Panhandle, at the
time he decided to come back to his
native State and face the crime OF
which he had been accused in his
youth. He had been in West Texas
roughing it on ranches and In Mexi-
90. prospecting for gold, but always
he had felt the ban of the law. so he
sent message to Sheriff Hargett.
of Franklin County. saying:
Il am tired of lodging the law"
When Texas officers placed Pal
mer under arrest and when Sheriff
Hargett arrived. one bright Sunday
morning the same words fell from
the lips OF the fugitive.
Glad to Return.
81 am glad to go back TO Alabama,
because | am so tired"
Palmer is only 40 years of age, but
he looks CO. Anxiety and conscience
have cut premature lines of age in
his face and streaked his hair with
gray. To the same reason can be
attributed the weary bend of his
shoulders and a pallid complexion.
Now that he is about to face the
bar of justice and is back among
his own Palmer is no longer tor
tured. Having lived for % years
under the shadow of tenacious, cling
ing fear that was far worse than a
living death in a prison cell, he sim
ply smiles and smokes his pipe in
satisfaction in the little brick jail in
Russellvine
For % years as a cowboy. miner.
-
himself the great secret. He SHE'D
at the personal questions any chance
acquaintance might ask him; he an
swered queerly with a stihed voice
when friends spoke of his native
State, and his pulse beat faster when
an officer gazed squarelv into his
eyes.
Fugitive Since 10.
A score of years Is a long time for
a man 10 dodge the law for a crime
he was accused of committing as a
boy Of IS. and, it is long time to be
eXiled from home and friends It is
enough that an aged managed with
fear and worry-is now within the
confines of the State that he has
stunned. He has come back to face
a crime that most of his old neigh
hors had forgotten the details of.
IN custody and irons the prisoner is
happier than when he was free to
rove the West. He want a trial be-
lore his old friend and then a chance
10 start all over again" where ne
IS known.
Complacent and almost happy. he is
through with turmoil. Back again
within stones throw Of his boyhood
home he dwells again in the days
when the flames of youth were ram
pant and the red blood surged at a
headlong pace.
The records in the case which have
am in the county courthouse so long
have yellowed with age When the
EeWs of the dramatic surrender came,
the clerk was forced to go to the
vaults and seek the indictment among
DUsl-oovered papers
Death of Rival.
One Of the oldest county officials
tells the story as follows:
Dave Glenn and Frank Palmer, Is
!ear-old youths, had been friends
from boynood. They were the sons
"i planters in Franklin County. 1t
vas the village gossip that both loved
Inc same little farm girl She was Is,
sum and pretty. with an angels fnno-
'ence in her eyes.
Ih"n one morning the village seeth-
-' VITA the excitement of a bloody
.aseeE- Dave Glenn had been found
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