The Mena weekly star., 1913-07-17
HE SAYS PREACHER
 SLEW TURNER WOMAN
Elijah Greenwood Goes to His Death On ScalfOld With Smile on His Face and Denial of
 His Guilt.

Little Rock, July i5.-With a smile on his face, Elijah Green wood, negro murderer, went into eternity at the end of a rope Mon day afternoon at , o'clock.
 For all hour before the eAecu- tion in the death room of the Pu- Iaski county jail, Greenwood stood on the scaffold, and with calm, steady voice, protested before God and man that he knew nothing of the killing last November of Alice Turner, a negress living on the Sweet Home pike
 These statements were belied by a sealed letter left by Greenwood, in which he declared that W. A. Pearso4 a negro preacher living on the Sweet Home pike was the actual slayer of the Turner woman. The letter was addressed to Rev. George Turner, colored minister, who accompanied Greenwood to the scaffold and urged him to tell the truth. As a result of state ments made in this letter, Pearson was arrested last night by Consta- bic D. A. Jones and Deputy Con stable Charles Jones. Charged with the murder of the Turner woman, he will be arraigned before a jus- tice of the peace some time this week.
 This is the second time the ne- gro preacher has been arrested in connection with the murder of the Turner woman. Suspicion pointed to him immediately after the mur- der. but he was released from GUS tody after Greenwood made a con fession stating that he had killed the woman.
 Calm on ScalfOld.
 GreenWoOd's demeanor on the last day of his life in jail and on the scanold was that of an insane man or fanatic. His harangue of over 30 minutes to the people in the eX- ecuton room was a protestation of his innocence, his belief in his fu- ture salvation and a general denial that he had any knowledge as to the real slayer of the Turner wom- an.
 As Greenwood talked his spirit ual advisers kept urging him 70 tell the truth.
 The murderer rambled on, dis coursing on truth as a general sub iect and admonishing all his hear CTS to stick to the truth. He de- clared he was going to heaven with his hands unstained with blood and that he had no fear of the rope dangling before bis eyes, no fear of the future into which he was about to plunge.
 Greenwood maintained a remark able show of nerve, in fact, an in- sane display of it, for while he talked in a steady voice and while the smiles played over his fea- lures, his pulse was pounding away at the rate of i56 beats to the min ute, showing the terrible strain that was going on and which nothing but fanatical bravado could have covered up. Had the eNecu- tion been delayed for another hour the negro's overWorked heart would have shown the strain and Green wood probably would have had to be carried to the scaffold.
 Children See Hanging.
 One of the interested spectators of the hanging was the husband of the slain woman. He brought his two youngest children. boy and Ia girl with him, and as Green woods body shot down from the scafTold he held the boy in his arms and said: There. sonny, is all that's left of the man that killed your nanny
 Greenwood was accompanied to the scaflold by Sheriff Hutton his spiritual advisers and Deputy Sher- ifs \. A. Beller. Sol Wormser, Dick Allnut, Chas. Roberts, Syd Thomas. Clarence Evans and Clifton Evans.
 In the limited crowd of spectators were several visiting sheriffs and deputies. representatives of the po- lice and detective departments, physicians and newspaper men.
 Letter No Surprise.
 The letter duplicating Pearson in the crime came as no surprise to the officers. They had felt all the time that Greenwood would tell the truth about the murder when he stood on the scaffOld, and believed he would have done so had he been in possession of his normal facul- ties when he stood in front of the moose. The man who climbed the scaffold and concealed the inward tempest registered by his frantical- ly beating heart was religious fanatic, a man insane over religion, who repeated over and over the precepts that had for days been hammered into his ears by the ministers. Several times he was on the verge of coming out with the story the officers expected, but each time he checkd back the words and rambled of on some abtruse sub iect of religion.
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