The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-03-31
0'DELL NOW
Verge OF
MADNESS!
Faces Execution April Is
for Numbering Man Who
Wronged His Wife
nv WHIT HlDIlEy

Wronged His Wife
nv WHIT HADIEy
oSSININc. n. r.. March al
Pale emaciate>l. haifhl vvrging
on insanity is James o'pen. who
murxfcred the man who had wronred
his wife. lie Is In the Sing SING
cath housc.
Tue wife. Pearl o'Den. II In Au
burn prison. serving a so-yoar sen
tence for the same crime. Their baby
G1rl. Gloria shares the cell OF her
mother.
Ton thousand persons have Pc
0ttoned Governor Miller 10 commute
Mrs. o'pclfs sentence for the sake
81 her Innocent child.
EENTENCEp 10 DIE
April. IS
opcii j. 20 die IN the electric chair
Monday. April IS. unless Governor
Miller stays the execution or O'pell
h officially pronounced insane and
transferred 10 panncmora state hos
ptssi.
The writer has just come from a
second Interview with O'Dcn. He
was faint feverish. clinging heavily
70 the steel bars.
Life and death belong 20 the
creative power OF the universe. he
mid NO man can give II: no man
has a right to take H. Yet I have
helped take life. have not asked
for mercy. have not asked the
gpvernor for a stay OF sentence.
II believe. tho, that was put into
this world To champion defenseicss
women from brute men. And that Is
what ] did In the case OF my wife.
Who was outraged and threatened
and he-mirched-
haven't eaten for thrcc days
uuw." he continued. - haven't slept
TOR 50 hours. canno, eat and I
cannot sleep because the picture OF
ny baby rises before me. Can't you
- her standing over there in that
dark cornerys
OFDE1l. HISTORICAL;
ALMOST FRENZIED
ODeil was hystericai. almost
eFunxted
''Bhe h looking At me and she Is
ny1nE Daddy. II L. awfuliy dark
and cold here. want TO grow up
lIks other children. daddy. Can't
mother and 20 home now- Don't
you hear her asking me that.
m1ueRr
-Hm.- said. tel me the truth
I'D you mean to kan that man
Xne1ps-
Me- hs replied. slowly. II did
~ ] vant to tell you about that
Kne1p attacked my wife when she
- IA He was 10 years older. We
W0e IN love and saving money for
- hnnA So she told me. Then she
DD16 = relative who had a lawyer
WxGo 70 Kneip. threatening to prose-
nueD him II he ever spoke to my wife
Dgn2a We were ashamed 10 tell
lGmvUns easa
mt Knefp Kept "a writing and
uGDpptng my wife on the streets.
Then We vere married Kneip
m ~ alone for a long time: then
n began 70 stop Pearl on the streets
again And 20 I planned TO bea,
him up.
KRREBENTED HIMSELF
- An OFFICER
He didn't know me and I went
- The factory and told him I was
IN officer of the law and to come
With me. He came and I hand
euffed him and took him 70 my
fAther and mother and Pearl made
= charge against him. told him
vas going 10 take him to jail and
~ started away In my car. Pearl
Was with us
s1On the way he called her q name
and ! stopped the car and told him
] was going TO lick him
I'VE went into the woods and
fought and he licked me. breaking
my g1asses and half binding me.
when he did that Pearl came to help
ne. We were both crazy. and then
BE was killed"
TO kill this man az must DO on
April Is. win be the hardest task Of
my life." said Warden I.awes. AS
ntrocious as the crime was. this man
- . gentle man. IL the governor
knew the facts about him and his
wife he would commute both SEN
tencea-
swart1~n.- said oDen. 7 don't
wn0t to live. am tired out. can't
restore Kneip's life. But want Pearl
md the baby TO go free soon"
Have you heard from herr
asked
Yes he said. she writes me
twice every day, and I write her
three times a day
THAT II true" remarked Warden
LAwcs. His notes. however, whis-
pered the warden. "show that he Il
on the threshold OF insanity. II II
al worry for her, for Gloria, for