The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-26
ANNISTON
Tim Sharpe Pays Death Penalty for Murder of Officers-PoIiceman Dis
 charged by City COuncil-WelI

Anniston, June 25.-(special)-In the presence of a few officers of the law three physicians, attorneys and interested citizens, Timothy Sharpe. convicted of mur dering Officers billiard and Dashwood of the Anniston police force, went to his death calmly Friday morning shortly after the clock had struck the hour of eight. He mounted the scaffold calmly and smoked a cigarette while the officers
 Sharpe stated before the executioner took him to the stand that he had in- tended making a statement from the gall lows, but that his nerve had failed him after a sleepless night, and his only state ment after he left the cell was request to the sheriff and his deputy to be sure and make no mistake-this statement be- ing made when the moose was shifted from the right to the left side of his neck
 Liquor brought me where I am," said Sharpe in his cell as he looked down into the prison wall at the gallows yawning for his life. He declined consistently, however. to discuss the crime of which he was convicted. He did grant a state ment, though. denying that he was In any wise implicated in the killing of Chief Harry Shiretzk whom he claimed a genuine friend.
 Only once since he was brought back from Birmingham did Sharpe make any display of feeling. This was wnen ne was discussing his aged mother in whose behalf an effort will be made to redeem the home of the dead man. He held a long conference with friends and with his family Thursday evening and on Fri day morning he was coseted with the Rev. s. N. Milligan and the Rev. Father M. Cronen of Selma, wno administered the last rites
 Sheriff A. H. Borders pulled the trap that sent the condemned man to his doom, the rope being cut by Deputy M w. Woodruff who assisted in the execution The victim lived only eight minutes after the drop.
 The body was laid at rest in the family lot at DeArmanville Friday evening after having lain in state at the Bagley un- dertaking parlors for several hours
 Policeman Walter Rowland was dis charged by the city council Thursday night, following charges lodged against him in which he was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer Tt is charged that Rowland used abusive language in a con- troversy with a citizen which was un- called for.
 The council also refused to pass the ordinance introduced at the last meeting by Councilman I. w. Mallory wn.ch would have prohibited the passing of street cars by automobiles while the cars were standing to discharge or take on passengers.
 The most important business attended to at this meeting was the adoption of a budget for the fiscal year. beginning July l. 1915 and ending June 30, 1916 The estimated receipts for the period approxi- mate $114,046 Of this amount 36,00O will come from taxes on real and personal property. $3S,000 license, sanitary tax $450O, fines sl6,00O and street tax s250o.
 Judge Thomas W. Coleman, Jr., of the city court of Anniston, made public Fri day morning his decision in the case of P. F. Wharton, the well known young Anniston attorney. who was tried for dis barment sometime ago before jury in this court. the case being prosecuted at the instance of the Alabama Bar associa- tion.
 MT. Wharton was charged with tamper- ing with jury in the case of Landt vs. Sellers. ct al, which was recently decided by the supreme court in favor of the plaintiffs. There was mistrial in the case at first, and on the second hearing the jury rendered a verdict which MT. Wharton considered very favorable in his case. Judge Coleman, however. has sus- pended the defendant for one year.