Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-03-22

alternately took his eyes from th' tablet there came into his eyes q fal away look, for back in memory was the vision of the young prisoner with whom he passed the hours of the night before he mounted the scaffold
 Tells of Nigl4 With Dodd.
 The stretch of half century o1 time has only served to increase his admiration of the Confederate scout hero, and after he had been able tC calm his emotion to some degree, he talked feelingly to Dr. Jordan con cefning the night he spent with Dodd He had never known young Dood be- for that night, but that acquaintance ship of a few hours was sufficient to cement an admiration that amounts to we'll night idolatry.
 "I was with young Dodd as guard on the night before he was executed he said in. substance in recalling .he trying event." and l learned in that one night to form the greatest ad- miration for him. was a Cavalry man of Company "A", First Indiana Regiment, and as private had been stationed to guard the prisoner.
 'Dodd was absolutely firm in his refusal to evade the awful penalty by revealing the source of the informa ton he had secured concerning the federal works. He said he would no bet1Nys the trust and was willing tr forfeit his life first. He was so open so frank, so manly in his bearing that it was a hard, hard task for me to stand there, knowing of the fate which awaited him, and realizing more and more that the world was losing a great soul at. a tender age Yes, losing the kind of men to whom of all others there should be long life.
 Talked Freely.
 "We talked a great deal that n1gnt he behind the bars of the cell and on the outside. There was, from his own stand, no escape from the order of execution. He was doing his duty as he thought ne should, and doing an act that stamped him as hero I was private, under orders, anC had to stand guard as my duty. Over and over that night I wished many and many time that there were some means whereby he coult escape the penalty which had beer imposed upon him.
 "Along in the night he handed mt a little Bible through the bars ant asked me if I would see that n wal sent back safely to his mother. My mother gave me that Bible,' have kept it, have tried to live righ and by it's teachings, and now I wan you to return it to her" he said, ant it was perhaps only at this touch ing and tense moment that his voic' momentarily lost the firmness of thu hours previously. But out of his eye he showed that there were emotion within him that the lips did not re peat, and I knew he spoke truly whel he said he had lived right. Onl those who have the purest of live could face eternity as calmly as he.
 "Needness to say I promised to at tend to his request and did so to tn best of my ability. The greatest sor row with me was that I was able t do only so little for him.
 Saw DOdd's Execution. "It was my painful task to have t witness the execution. Young bod | went as calmly to the scaffold, wit the strain of several thousand eye ] upon him with calmness that wa truly remarkable. He, had full indicated his stand, he would not ac cept any chance, such as offered, t gain a lease of life, SC he wen quietly, manly, fearlessly out of thi l life into the great eternity.
 "There was no thought of heroisr on his part. He did not know tha he was in later years to be immortal ized by his people, and to be held i a like reverence by those who Tough on the other side. His only though was of his duty and his honor. "I feel after the laps of fifty year the same keen regret over his un timely taking off the same as tn