The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
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MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 29.-Ad- ditional data is being assembled by friends of Clarence Bailey, shell-shocked World war veteran, sentenced to hang here January 9, to be presented to the state pardon board and to Governor W. w. Brandon, in an effort to save the condemned man from the gallows. The Bailey case, because of the unusual cir cunstances involved, has attracted much interest, not only, locally, but in other parts of the state,b
 Bailey was granted reprieve few weeks ago by the governor, on recom- mendation of the pardon board, until January 9, to permit further investi- gation of the case Ex-service men who have interested themselves in the case have taken active steps in behalf of Bailey since the reprieve was granted. Dr. Leo 0. Woods, neuro-psychiatrist of Birmingham, was in Montgomery re- cently and examined Bailey at the county jail, 1t was learned today; and Marion Rushton, prominent local attor-
 
 dle the submission of the plea for com mutation of the death sentence to the pardon board and the governor.
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 Bailey served in France with com pany H, 167th infantry, and made a splendid combat record;s according to of ficers with whom he fserved. He was shell-shocked and gassed in action. Shortly after returning to Alabama, he was sent to the penitentiary for forgery, under a sentence of 10years. He killed fellow convict at Speigner, and was given life sentence. Moved to Kilby prison, he fatally stabbed James Gull pepper, another convict, and received the death sentence in the Montgomery circuit court in October, 1923.
 A number of individual ex-service men in Montgomery and elsewhere have interested themselves in Bailey's case and it was at the request of commit tee of World war veterans that the date of his execution was recently postponed pending investigation
 It has been stated by ex-service men who have interested themselves in the case that if they believed that Bailey was sane, there would be no appeal for clemency from them, but that they are seeking communication of the death sen- tence in the belief that the condemned man is irresponsible, in a condition of insanity which renders it impossible for him to choose between right and wrong, or control the impulse to commit crime.
 It is stated that information gathered from family records and the affidavits lat Of fvdi hof young Bailey was a defective child, un- able to walk or talk at normal age ; that he frequently ran away from home, and at the age of 14 left his family and went to Nashville, where within a few months he was committed to the state reformatory of Tennessee for repeated commission of statutory offense. Dur ing 1916 he escaped from this instftu- tion and came to Montgomery, where he joined the Alabama National Guard and served for several months on the Mexican border and in Mexico. Sol diers who knew him at this time state that he was commonly called cuckoo" in his company ahd was not regarded as a safe man to play with. From Mex ico he went to France with the 167th infantry. While his record as a com batant soldier was good, it was stated that he appeared to be suffering under the delusion of oppression and that he complained without reason that he was made the ''goat" of the battalion.
 He was sheIl-shocked and gassed on October 1, 1918, on the occasion of the famous drive of the 167th infantry against hill 29S, near Landres-Saint- Georges, in the Argonne, was invalided to the hospital and finally discharged as a. disabled soldier.
 In the report of Dr. Woods, the neuro- psychiatrist who recently examined Bailey, it was stated that his record showed ''concussion by explosion, and gas, mustard, inhaled-severe," on the date given above, October 16, 1918. He was in hospital October 16-December 21. The report quoted Bailey as stating that while in hospital in France for she'll shock he started stealing dope, that nurses gave it to him to make hin sleep, and that he has been using 1t ever since.
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