The log cabin Democrat., 1920-11-19
RUSH CONVICTED
 BANDITS TO PEN
SLAUGHTER AND GREEN
Arc Quickly Taken to State Peniten. tiary, Following Sentence to Life
 Imprisonment.

Hot Springs, Nov. 19.-Tom Slaugh-
 ter and Fulton Green, convicted Thurs
 day afternoon in jury verdict of first degree murder for the killing of Dep uty Sheriff Row Brown here on Oc- tober 10, were the same afternoon transferred under civil and military guard by motor lorrie to the state penitentiary for safekeeping. The state made a hard fight for the death penalty for the men. After the yer i diet, with it's sentence of life in the penltentlary was read in court, At torney George P. Wilmington, act inc for the defendants. waived all rights that had been preserved in the trial of the case, and the men stood up for immediate sentence.
 As soon as the verdict was read Judge Scott Wood passed sentence. When the prisoners were being talk en from the courtroom Slaughter stopped in front of Judge Wood. his genial smile was working overtime. Judge, l want to tell you that you are square judge, and I thank you"
 In spite of their bravery both men feared the electric chair, and the yer dict is regarded by them in the light of victory. To newspaper men who saw him shortly after sentence was imposed, and who had called to say goodbye, Slaughter related an incl dent he said he had not even told his attorney, George P Wilmington. He said that on the morning of the shoot ing when he and Green were coming to Hot Springs their car was stopped by two girls and middle aged man who said they were out of gasoline and asked if Slaughter and Green had "any gas they could spare" The trio were given two gallons from Slaugh- ter's car. The girls said they had been in Hot Springs the day before had gotten drunk and wanted to know if Slaughter and Green could come back with liquor. The bandits prom ised the trio they would try and get some in this city. One of the girls, Slaughter said, gave her name as Babe" Moore. They also gave the prisoners their address in Little Rock, which the bandits explained they later lost.
 When Slaughter and Green returned they found Brown and Wilson ap- preaching them almost at the same spot where they had met the girls and their companion. There flashed into the minds of the Oklahomans that the previous meeting with the trio was in the natuer of "tip-off," and that while Slaughter and Green did not know Brown and Wilson they believed that Brown and Wilson knew them and were coming to place them under arrest.
 They determined to get out of it as best they could and Slaughter said when Wilson started shooting there was nothing to do but shoot back. The statement is a confession that the bandits knew Brown and Wilson were officers and contradcts their sworn testimony that they did not think when Brown and Wilson stopped the car they were officers but were being held up.
 Greens father was in the courtroom and cried when the verdict was an- nounced. Tt is very hard" he said, but it might have been worse. l have not seen much of my boy for the past three years, and not until he was arrested in Kansas did I learn of the life he was leading"
 Sheriff Smith, with Slaughter and Green, heavily manacled and accom- panied by deputies and members of the machine gun company that had guarded the prisoners during the trial left for Little Rock an hour after sen tence had been imposed
 Hot Springs generally is greatly re- lieved to know that this most cele- brated of all trials is now part of criminal history and that the pris-