The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-18
SLAUGHTER AND GREEN GO TO
 PEN FOR LIFE
Might Have Been Worse" Declares
 One Bandit =.

Hot Springs, Ark, Nov. 1S-Tom Slaughter and Fulton Green, convict ed this afternoon in jury verdict Of first degree murder for the killing of Deputy Sheriff Row Brown here
 Oct. 10, were this afternoon trans ferred under civil and military guard by motor lorrie to the state peniten- tiary for safekeeping. The state made a hard fight for the death pen atty for the men, After the verdic with it's sentence of life in the peni- tentiary was read in court, Attorney George P. Wilmington, acting for the defendants, waived all rights that had been preserved in the trial of the case, and the men stood up for im- mediate sentence.
 As soon as the verdict was read Judge Scott Wood passed sentence. When the prisoners were being taken from the courtroom Slaughter stop ped in front of Judge Wood, his gen. ial smile was working overtime. "Jud3e, l want to tell you that you are square judge, and 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 k- 1@ t1,arr c+N 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 said Slaughter, gave her name as Babe" Moore. They also gave their address to the prisoners as Little Rock, which the bandits explained they later lost.
 When Slaughter and Green re- turned they found Brown and Wilson approaching 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 nature of a "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 ,contradicts their sworn testimony that they did not think when Brown and Wilson stopped the the car they were officers but were be- ing held up.
 Greens father was in the court room and cried when the verdict was announced. "It 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 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 sentence 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 prison CTS are no longer here.