San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-15


The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
The paths of CRIME also lead to the grave but in our
strange civilization the that holds criminal base
murderer attracts sometimes interest more concen-
raed attention than the grave of whose life has been
devoted to serving his fellow
One who has saved lives perhaps thousands through
science personal devotion to the grave unnoced
And Gerald Chapman, murderer sent to the grave
by the hangsmans hand, is discussed all this land,
although his record is of theft and murder.
However, since civilization must disgrace itself by
killing those that kill others thus setting the example in
killing, it is we'll that capital punishment be made
ing to the youthful criminals and dangerous
others and themselves in these days of reckless boot
logging and vicious youth
The criminal is danger to society, menace to the
peace of mind and safety of his fellow Citizens and an
infinitely greater menace to himself
Many sermons are in this picture which reproduce
from the front page Of the New York Daily Mirror.
1t shows Chapman, watching the clock his last
hour drew and shows pictures that must have passed
through his BRAIN at the end of his wasted lfe the
minutes flew by.
At the moment indicated by the clock in this picture,
Chapman had less than half hour live. Thirty
minutes then would the frghtful shock and then
WHAT?
How many times he must have asked himself that
teachings in eternal reward for the good and punishment
for the wicked?
What pictures must have gone through his brain, as
he sat- with cold heart and dreadful fear waiting for the
feeling of that rope around his neck!
He saw his childhood and his youth, when his chance
was good that of any other boy AS good on THE
SURFACE. Only the Eternal Judge knows what excuse
there for Chapman in brain uniformed or in the
influence of distant heredity.
In other pictures he saw his steps in crime.
No criminal was ever happy in his LIFE or happy in
his DEATH Some that deserved hanging have escaped
it; some that deserved prison have escaped for while,
undoubtedly.
But always there is the danger, always the TERROR.
And at the end for the reckless Ego the limit there is the
dangling the more terrifying chair.
Crime does not pay
It's rewards are poor and wasted as got. LAW
IS POWERFUL its arm is long Criminals think they are
banded against society But society and all its are
banded against them, and the criminal CANNOT WIN
Chapman lies in his grave now, his neck broken, his
dsgraced. No stealings more murders, no
more menace to society" Where is he? What visions
of appear before his eyse? What does he in the
life that is beyond THIS life That question for each
to answer, according to his belief unbelief
But let the young man that has taken or contem-
plates the first step in crime remember the fate of Gerald
Chapman.
He was called the most cunning and resourceful of
criminas-BUT THEY HANGED HIM, AND HE is IN
HIS GRAVE.
He boosted that no Jail could keep him. And he es
capped twice from the Federal prison at Atlanta. BUT
THEY HANGED HIM, AND HE is IN HIS GRAVE.
He killed policeman to escape arrest and punish
ment. But they caught him and HANGED HIM.
"Arch criminal" and so called master mind in crime"
were his titles But his neck felt the in the end
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