Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-11
Wife Frees Self From Husband to
 be ElectrOcuted

Nantes, Feb. 1O.-Airplanes and year-old Annie Laurie McNamara, whose father is awaiting electrocu- tion at the Nashville penitentiary. has been awarded to the custody of her mother, who has just obtained a divorce.
 Allen McNamara, the 22-year-old father, was convicted of attacking a girl .and sentenced to death. His execution, originally set for Jan uarv ?, has been stayed, pending his appeal to the state supreme court, which is to review the case in May.
 Two weeks before McNamara' s crime against 16-year-old orphan girl employed at local bag fac tory, his wife, Rebecca McNamara, 19, filed suit for divorce. She charg- him with cruel and inhuman treat ment and failure to provide for her and their child.
 Worked as Waitress.
 When McNamara was arrested and placed on trial for his life, the wife became reconciled to him and suspended her divorce suit. With the baby in her lap, she sat with her husband in court each day during the six weeks his trial lasted. At nights, she worked as a waitress m d local restaurant, contributing all Ter earnings to his defense fund.
 Mrs. McNamara wept bitterly when the jury, after remaining out five hours, returned verdict of guilty. She was not in the court room the day Judge Richards pronounced the death sentence.
 Recently, however. Mrs. McNamara renewed her suit for divorce. The attorney who defended McNamara during his trial immediately began proceedings to obtain custody of the child on behalf of Mrs. Henry L. Me Namara, the condemned man's mother. He intimated in his peti, ton that Mrs. Rebecca McNamara vas nunfit person to rear the lit tie girl.
 It took Circuit Judge Laughlin just 10 minutes to decide that the child should remain in the custody of her mother. However, the latter agreed that her husbands people could visit the baby any time they chose. She is now staying with her father. Thomas Doyle, 1S7 Nebraska street
 Girl Charged with Perjury.
 Since McNamara's trial, Mary Thompson. the girl upon whose teS- timony he was convicted. was mar ried to Gus McNamara. younger brother of the defendant. five days before the motion for new trial was heard. The girl. richly dressed, then took the stand. denied that Al len McNamara had harmed her and declared that her original testimony was false. Judge Richards immedi- ately ordered bench warrant for lie rarrest on charge of perjury. She is at liberty on S2.000 bond.
 The prosecution charged that Al len McNamara. Jack Frey and Full Ter Langley-three youths of about the same age-hed taken three girls for ride in McNamara's auto and enticed them to lonely clump of woods several miles north of the city. There, the state alleged, the three girls were attacked by their youthful companions. Their screams for help alarmed fisherman who telephcned for Sheriff Perry The latter rushed to the scene and plac- ed McNamara under arrest after a terrific struggle. in which, the of ficer testified. McNamara tried to kill him with his own revolver. Frey was captured next day and is now at liberty under heavy bond. Long ley escaped.
 The McNamara trial, in its various phases. lasted about six weeks and cost the state more than S2o.ooo, much of this expense being due to the fact that it was necessary to call several thousand veniremen before & jury of l2 unpre5udiced men could be found.