Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-29
FLAME SWEPT OATMAN LOSES QUARTER MILLION IN 2 HOURS
TEN WEEKS IF LIFE, MARTIN
 STILL APPEALS

1, Ten weeks and four days or life
 are left to Nichan Martin, condemn
 ed to die for the murder of Arthur
 De Steunder, as a result of the re-
 Imposition of the death penalty by
 Judge John J. Sweeney in superior
 court here yesterday.
 In that time, attorneys for Martin
 will exhaust the human possibilities
 in his behalf, according to indica-
 lions ill short address to the court
 by Benton Dick just prior to the pronouncement of the sentence.
 That the case will go to Washing ton was the declaration of MT. Dick, but just how it will go was not made apparent.
 He indicated that papers were pre- pared in the Pinal county superior court following the order of the state supreme court sustaining a denial of habeas corpus proceedings at Flor ence, but none seems to know how a case can be appealed from a su- perior court to the United States supreme court. It is understood from rumors that have floated around but which have never been capable of confirmation, that an attempt will be made to loosen the rope about Martins neck by reason of his al {; legged alienage.
 Martin served in the United States army in America during the war, but that is not taken to indicate he is an American citizen. Many non-citizens served in the army. It is reported Martin now asserts his Turkish citi zenship, but it cannot apparently be learned at this time why that fact, f. it be a fact, should operate to stay the judgment of an American court.
 A significant admission of Benton Dicks was that all legal hope had 1 vanished with the recent vigorous order of the state supreme court de- ( lying relief under all appeal from udge Jenckes' order setting aside he application for a writ of habeas 1 orpus at Florence. The attorney proceeded to ask the court in its discretion to place the date of execu- ion as far in the future as possible, ( n order. that plans already started t or further trial of Martins case t night not be terminated by his exc T ution. There remained, Dick as | erted, only the courts willingness to J clay the execution; failing to ob- t ain that, it would be all up with V lartin. p
 Stephen Abbey, also of Martins D sat in the court room with NO or three law books in his lap, S ut took no part in the proceeding. k
 "Nichan Martin, stand up!" O
 Judge Sweeney read briefly, ap- u arently from documents, the state W rents that Martin had been found uilty and condemned to the rope y a jury and the date set for sent ice on April l3, 1920. He stated ] le barest facts of the appeal, de al of a rehearing and resetting of le date by the State supreme court ,r June 10. He then alluded to the abeas corpus proceedings, their fail -e and the mandate of the state ap- ,late court for a resentencing, and D len proceeded to pronounce Mar f, n's legal doom for a second time, b; tting the date for September 9. .t The court room was well filled by m ,ectators who wanted to see Mar n, n. The prisoner sat next to the all on the blailiff's side, his face d. uch paler than it was when he oc- of lpied a seat in the same room and ard the evidence that damned him. D he birthmark on the left side ot At S nose. an important feature in his .; ratification and capture, glowed "A ore redly than before, on the back e ound of his pallor. dr Whereas on the night in March, Ia 2O when the foreman of the jury ;r ad the fateful words that spelled S execution, Martin sat without a o,
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