Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-16
PULLMAN GOES I'D GALLONS SAYING
 HE IS INNOCENT
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 the Stephens girl! This man proved an alibi at Tillman's second trial when his name was Brought into the case. accused him of the deed.
 Tillman expressed willingness to address the immense crowd outside the scatfold enclosure but owing to his weakened condition this was not per- mitted. He then said he would make no formal statement in his prayer on the gallows. He said he hoped the bloodthirsty people of his community would shoot him to death while he was on the scaffold.
 Tillman yesterday gave a. fellow prisoner broken saw with which he sawed his shackles while confined in the county jail at Fort Smith, en route from Little Rock to Paris. On board the train going to Paris Till man made an effort to leap out of the baggage room door. In so doing the sawed links of the shackles were broken. He told Sheriff Cook yester- day that he had hoped the officers would shoot him to death while he was trying to escape, so that he would miss death on the scaffold.
 Says Jury Was "Picked."
 Tillman, in letter written last night and made public today after his death asserted that the jury that con- yicted him was picked" He also ac- cused the trial judge of sending him to the gallows without cause and re- ferred to his journey to the scaffold as being led to the slaughter house"
 In the letter Tillman also said he had made his peace with God and would die happy.
 History of Case.
 The following history of Tillman's trial is from the Southwest Reporter, legal publications:
 The defendant, Arthur Tillman, ap- peals from a judgment of conviction for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been commit ted on March 10, 1913, by killing Amanda Stephens, young woman about 19 years of age.
 Defendant and deceased were reared together in the same community in Delaware township, Logan county, Arkansas. It was a thickly settled community around postoffice or country village called Delaware, or Delaware Hall They had known each other from childhood, and were on in innate terms up to the time of the disappearance and death of deceased. The girl resided with her parents on public road mile or so northeast of the store and postoffice. Defend- ant was g years old at the time of the death of the girl, and resided with his yparents about a mile southwest of the postoffice.
 Amanda Stephens disappeared from the home of her parents and from the community on Monday, March 10, 1913, and was last seen in the afternoon Of that day at the house of a nelghbOr, where she made some statements con taining hints or suggestions that she was going to leave the community. Her body was found in an old well on a small farm adjoining that of de- fendants parents. There was bulles hole in her head, entering in front and on top of the head, and ranging downward towards the base of the brain, and there were few minor scratches on her body, not indicating any violence, but rather wounds lE- flieted on the body in placing it in the well. A heavy rock was attached to her neck by a piece of telephone wire, and the rock curbing arouni the well was thrown into the we'll over her body, completely covering it. and holding it down to the bottom of the we'll. The well was covered over with plank, scantings and sticks, Which were held down by rocks. The well | was near an old abandoned houae. and was not great ways from the home of defendants parents It was | in view from another house on the same farm, which was unoccupied on 1 the day or night the murder is alleged to have been committed, but was oc- cupied by man and his wife when the body was found.
 Girl Was Enciente.
 There is no direct evidence as to the 1 identity of the girls murderer, but the state relies upon many circum- stances tending to connect defendant with it.
 | lHG SlIl was uuLdlIlSu, dAu POoe- mortem examination disclosed the Tact that she was about four or five months advanced in pregnancy. There IS abundant testimony that defendant had been keeping company with her and had been frequently having sex ual intercourse With her for several months before her death. This the defendant did not deny, but. on the contrary, admitted it from the Wit ness stand There was pine thicket about mile north of the postoffice commonly designated in the neighbor- hood as the "Pines," and deceased and defendant resorted to that place for sexual intercourse. They were seen l together there during the forenoon oi the day that deceased disappeared. On 1 Sunday, the day before the killing, de- \ fendant went to physician in the neighborhood, and, according to evil dence adduced by the prosecution stated to the latter that deceased was pregnant as result of their inter course, and asked the physician tt >,r~I