Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-18
DR. ]. |. GREENE
 WILL COME BACK
Former Superintendent of Insane Asylum Intends to
 Remain and Fight.
(By A. w. Parke. )

Little Rock, Nov. 17.-Learning that reports had been circulated m which it was asserted that he has been eXtravagant in the management of the Arkansas Hospital for the Treat ment of Nervous Diseases, Dr. J. l.. Greene, who two weeks ago resigned as superintendent of this institution, has decided not to leave Arkansas, but to take up his residence in Hot Springs instead. Er. Greene is now preparing a statement of his side of the dispute in the state board of char ities, which will be given to the press, and it is siad to fairly sizzle with hot assertions concerning cer- tain members of the board.
 "As soon as I heard that I was charged with extravaganza" stated pr. Greene, "I cancelled by arrange ments to retire to my farm near Lin- coin. Neb., and to stay right here in Arkansas to face the music, ant; where I could not be shot in the back at long range. I am going to remain in Hot Springs personally, and the people of Arkansas will hear from me any time they desire it, for I have never concealed anything, and I have great love for the state, though I have lived here less than three years''
 Dr. Greene is especially popular in Hot Springs, and his decision to take up his permanent residence there is considered by the business men of that city to be one of the big happen ings for the Valley Of Vapors that has occAred in many years. Dr. Greene Will leave the state hospital on tho last day of November.
 Abolish Death Penalty.
 The unpleasant conditions arising from the execution of Arthur Tillman in Logan county, and the legal squab. ble now taking place to save Arthur Hodges from the electric chair next Saturday, has started anew a demand for law which will do away with capital punishment entirely. A bill will be presented in the 1915 legisla- ture. assessing punishment of life Imprisonment for those found guilty of crimes which are now punishable by death.
 It is doubtful if such trying con- ditiQn ever faced any governor as that pertaining to the four youths h. Carcerated in the Arkansas penitenti- ary, all sentenced to death. Every eff fort possible was eXerted to save Ar thur Tillman from the gallows, where he paid the penalty for murdering his sweetheart. Now comes Arthur Hedges. who guilty of the murder oi q constable in Clark county, pleads insanity first at his trial. and failing to make it an adequate defense there now tries to prove himself insane with the knowledge that the law will not permit an insane man to be exc cuted Hodges is barely. more than g boy.
 There are two more youths in the penitentiary awaiting electrocution Clarence Dewein and Joe Strong Neither of these boys has reached the age of manhoood and their youth is causing much sympathy to be ex, pressed in their behalf though the, have been convicted of murdering L H. Thompson, an aged merchant o1 Benton, while robbing his store. The law makes 1t first degree xmurdel when man is killed while being rob- bed, hence there is no way to lessen the degree of the boys crime. S
 Had the defendants in these cases been men of mature age, there would have been little effort. other than the usual legal exertions, to save them frcm the supreme punishment sane tioned by law, but the execution oi boys has so aroused the people that thsy will mara 1t -inpoasible for 1t, to happen again. by a change or ihs