Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-26
GOVERNOR H:ARDW|Ck
HEARS LAST PLEA
FOR DUPRE'S LIFE
Counsel for Bandit Inject
Insanity Plea - Governor
HardWick Will Render De-
ciSion in a Few Days ,ssa

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Governor Hardwick on Thursday
morning heard arguments for ana
against the plea Of Frank Dupre
to be spared from the gallows.
On account of the large number
Of people in attendance. rs COVER.
nor transferred the hearing from
his private office, which was filled
with men and women appearing In
Dupre's behalf, to the senate cham
ber- Ill the seats were taken, peos
pie were standing at the brass rail-
in the rear and there were a num-
Der in the gallery. Governor Hard.
wick assigned one hour for each
side, and requested Attorney H. A.
Allen and Solicitor Z eneral John a.
Boykin to state whether, they had
any new evidence to present. So.
licitor Boykin had none. Mr.. Aflen
presented certificates from authors
ties of the South Carolina insans
asylum as to the insanity of a first
cousin Of Dupre's father.
= The hearing opened shortly after
10 o'clock and closed shortly after I
o'clock. The governor at the con.
clusion of the testimony, took the
case under advisement and will an.
nounce his decision in few days.
Governor Hardwick sat at the
desk of the journal clerk of the
senate. On his right sat the father
Of Dupre and two or three of Du.
pres relatives. His father, most
Of the time, sat with his face
held in his hand. On the governors
left sat Mrs. Walker, the widow OF
Irby c.. Walker, the Pinkerton de.
tective, who was shot and killed by
Dupre in the Kaiser jewelry store
on December Is, 1921. Her. eyes were
red, as if from weeping. With her
was her little girl
w. I. Hayward opened the case for
Dupre. His argument was that Du.
pre- did not have fair trial be-
cause four jurors expressed the opinr
ion before the trial that Duprs
ought to be hanged.
The case Of the state was then
presented. The first speaker was
Jesse Mercer, secretary of the
League for Law Enforcement
Through Constituted Authorities.
He spoke for six or seven minutes,
denouncing the efforts to make Q
hero Of Dupre and to, weave q ro-
nance around him.
Calls DuPre Coward
He characterized DuPre as q
cringing coward and an abandoned
wreck. Clemency, he declared, would
do more to destroy law endorsements
in Georgia than anything else In
Governor Hardwick's administra.
ton.
Meyer Goldberg. a lawyer, who
was in the Berrien building on the
day Of the shooting, and who saw
the shooting Of Graham West, city
comptroller, spoke against commu>
tation Of the sentence. He asserted
the misguided sentiment OF well in
tentioned people had been brought
TO bear in DuPre's behalf. He ex.
planned that he did not appear as q
lawyer but as a citizen.
Solicitor Boykin spoke for twenty
minutes, discussing:
l. The previous criminal record
Of DuPre.
2. The cold-blooded and callous
manner in which DuPre killed one,
man, almost killed another and fred
his pistol at a third.
8. The cool and deliberate prapae
rations by DuPre after the crime Do Z
escape.
4. His attitude of braggadocis
as exhibited in his letter written
from Detroit and p4JAshed here.
5. DuPre's complete lack OF 70.
pentance after the crime, and at the
trial, and after the decision of the
supreme court.
6. His repentance at the eleventh
hour, with the gallows staring him
in the face.
Technical Appeal
THAT the points raised by the
attorneys for the defense in their
appeal for a new trial were purely
technical points which did not touch
the merits of the. case.
8-That the attorneys for DuPre
had presented no new evidence, but
were asking the governor to const.-
tute himself a new tribunal to pass
on technicalities already disposed of
by the court.
9-That all of the sentiment raised
in DuPre's behalf, though well-in-
tentioned. is maudlin, and has no re.
gard for the protection of society. p
In conclusion, the solicitor declar.
ed that if the law against murder
is to be repealed, it ought to be re-
pealed by statutory enactment and
not by clemency. -
Graham West, city comptroller.
mGde substantially the same states
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