The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-08
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ycar-old boy would move heart Of stone.
Mrs. Eula Harris wrote, III local paper:
Their repentance was thorough and deep, and
their witness to pardon clear and definite Not
one word of self-justifcation was heard from
them, but only regrets that they had brought
trouble on others Some of us had the glorious
privilege of being with them in religious service
almost every Sunday afternoon for several
months before their execution, behodng their
shining faces and hearing their clear testimonies
to the saving grace of God. They insisted that
we come on the day of their execution as early
as possible, and stay with them to the last,
which we did We held service with them until
they were brought out to make their statements,
and go to their awful but glorious fate. The
glory that rested upon them is indescribable. AS
we sang their fayOrite songs they walked back
and forth in their cell, praisng God that they
would soon be at home, and exhorting others
who We're unsaved to get ready to meet them in
heaven. They so self-forgetful and thought
full of others. They did not seek one bit of COM
fort for themselves, but spent their time in try
ing to comfort their loved ones, who were griev-
ing after them. They ferventy prayed for their
felow-prisoners who unsaved.
My good old friend, Dr. A. L. Nance,
writes me:
Gainesville, Ca, July 8, 1915.
Dear Brother Watson:
After their conviction they the most law
abiding prisoners l have known, and vowed
opened and every prisoner went out they
would not go out, unless discharged. Hence,
Brother Spencer, our Sheriff, allowed them the
freedom OF the corridors of the jail to the very
last; and they a great blessing to the other
prisoners we'll outsiders; and their regi-
Gus experiences were powerful sermons within
themselves.
You tell me such characters, after an eight
months test, could it have been possible for
them to have been par6oned, would no, have
made better citizens than Jack Slaton, Luther
Rosser and Leo Frank.
Wish you could have the face of Barlow
Cantrell-one Of the sweetest mrGt benign faces
that | ever beheld upon boy. He was led
thoughtedly, by the buying of the revenue officer
of Hawkins, to betray them; and mistreatment Of
his sister spurred him up to commit the deed:
twas not premeditated murder.
AS l wrote you before the trial Judge, every
member of the jury which tried them, and the
Solicitor General signed the petition for the COM
mutation of their sentence and urged it; and
there not, within my knowledge, a dissenting
voice in the entire county.
With my benedction for the grand, holy and
righteous work which you are doing am truly
and affectionately yours,
A. L. NANCE, NJ. D.
NY lords, is the mantle of mercy cut for
none but the rich the great, the powerful in
social, commercial, and political life?
Barlow Cantrel was a sinner, but he
sin0ed after the manner of men
fte could write as well as jim Conley, but
not so we'll as Leo Frank.
He did not arouse the sympathy of So
cietv Queens and Railroad LAWYERS, by hav-
ing lot Of poor, ruined girls to his credit.
He was no Cornell graduate; and he had
not even learned how to loop a sailors knot
around the neck of fatherless girl, so
that with every effort she made to breathe,
it sank deeper into her tender throat.
Barlow Cantrell did not have a dollar,
much less a Haas Finance Committee, and
Nathan Straus to back HIM
This North Georgia boy aroused no in