Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-10
M'YAY GETS NEW
 LEASE ON LIFE Governor Gives Man Three Weeks More After Jury
 Inquiry.
10 TO 2 FOR INSANITY
Stay of Execution Granted By Cover nor Until January 3l--DOc-
 tors Testify.

John NJ. Mcvay will not hang. Governor Donaghey save him from the gallows late yesterday afternoon, after a second jury, emp&nelled by Sheriff Edgar Brdwster to inquire IT, to the sanity of | condemned man, had reported hat it could not az: ee. The Governor granted lMeVay re- spite until January 31. Tie lesDite was granted on the recommendation of Sheriff Edgar Brewster. The july s'cod ten believing McVay insane and two of the opin on that he was zane A jury ten days ago was unanimous in the opinion that McVay was in- sane. At that time Governor Dona- ghey granted seven day respite.
 Sheriff Brewster was preparing for dhe execution when Governor Dona- ghey informed him of the stay of execution. He had already removed the condemned man from a room .n the front part of the countp jail to the corridor of the jail proper, it be- ing necessary for four men to carry him ,here on a mattress. McVay was not affected by the incident, al though had he been able to under stand the situation he could have known that the jury had decided his fate for tomorrow.
 Drs. A. c. Jordan. Asa B1unson and William Crutcher test fled before the jury that their opinion was that the condemned man was insane. They said that his men,al condition was the same as ten days ago, that he had not taken sufficient nourishment to sustain life of a baby, much less an adult. He had grown much weaker physically. Dr. w. T. LotWe sald that the prisoner might know what was going on around him. At was this statement that prompted two of the jurors to insist that the condemned man was sane. Deputy Sheriff C. o., Green and R. H. Williams, who have been with McVay day and ght, testified that McVay had not slept a wink during that period and has al- ways had his eyes open. He mas spoken only once in that time, say ing Just look at those people danc- ing"
 A statement signed by Dr. J. h.. Greene, state alienist, was read, to
 the effect tha, McVay was suffer ng from "collapse delirium.'
 Preparations were being made by
 Attorneys w. F.. Coleman and J. M.
 Shaw, of this city, and Lewis Rhoton ] of Little Rock, counsel for McVay, to
 go to Little Rock with his brother and several friends to make final l plea for his life, when the telegram came from Governor Donagney an-
 nouncing a postponement of the
 hanging. It is believed that McVay is on his death bed.
 | The jury that examined McVay to- l day and was unable to agree was
 composed of H. H. Knox, Knox Scull ] R. s. Cherry, San silbernagle. J. Q. | siyess. R. M. Knox, Jr., c. H. Trip lett IT,, Henry Reynolds, William
 Wolff, A. G.. Bedell, Ben Sylvester
 and M. M. Bruce. t~ Donaghey's Statement
 Little Rock, Ark, Jan. Ex-Governor I Donaghey issued the following state
 ment Thursday afternoon:
 "Ten of the. twelve jurors appoin : | ed to inquire into the sanity of John | M. McVay have decided that he is
 absolutely insane. Sheriff Brewster \ wired me this afternoon that Nc
 Way is insane beyond any question O.
 doubt. The ten jurors have petition \ ed me by all means to give him re- ' spite for a reasonable length. of timt until the question of his sanity can b. 1 finally and definitely determ ned. Or { this record, consider that it woult be inadvisable and improper to per init a man to be executed when th5r'
 ts such grave 7dobt of his sanity. Il have therefore granted further re spite unt'l Friday, January 31.' 6