Evening star., 1928-06-06
BUSCH SLAyERS PIN
HOPE ON PRESIDENT
Attorneys for Condemned
Men Will Ask Executive
C!emenCy Today.


While preparations we're going for
ward today at the District jail to carry
out Friday morning the sentence of
death imposed upon the three slayers
of Policeman Leo w. K Busch. the
events Of the next IS hours viii decide
the fate of the trio of condemned men.
Hoping TO the last for executive Clem-
ency at the hands of President Coolidge.
to whom an appeal is being prepared.
the three slayers, Nicholas Lee Eagles,
Samuel Moreno and John Proctor, pre-
pared today 10 accept stoically whatever
fate is in store for them.
Ready to File Applications.
Attorneys for the trio were ready TO-
day to file with the Department of
Justice separate applications to file a
petition with President Coolidge to COM
mute their death sentence to life i'm
prisonment. Meanwhile Justice Jen-
nings Bailey of the District Supreme
Court Will hear motion tomorrow
morning for @ stay of execution.
Even should President Coolidge de-
cline to intervene to save the men from
the electric chair. their attorneys were
hopeful today of Justice Jennings grant,
ing stay of execution for ct least 10
days.
The application for executive clem-
ency. upon which the three condemned
men are pfnning their last hopes, must
first go through the machinery of the
Department Of Justice for approval
Justice Bailey yesterday refused To
hear a motion for a stay of sentence
70 enable the President TO act upon the
petition, and with this understanding
he viii grant tomorrow's hearing. pro-
vided the petition By that time has been
filed at the White House.
MAJ. w. l.. Peak. superintendent Of
the District jail has received the death
warrant and has set the hour OF the
triple electrocution for 10 O'Clock Fri
day morning. He gave the necessary
instructions to the electrician 10 have
all in readiness bv that time.
The District jail has never witnessed
a triple execution. Maj. Peak said, and
FOR this reason extraordinary precau-
tons are being made The only other
/ one in the city was under military
auspices at the Washington Barracks,
when Mrs. Surratt and two others were
hanged for conspiring to assassinate
President Lincoln.
GuuuemDe0 MEN CnegfIuI.
Despite the slender thread by which
their lives hang. the three condemned
men accepted the situation cheerfully
today.
Il am not guilty OF this thing they
say did, Eagles said calmly this
morning.
Last night, Eagles wired to his
mother She is coming down tomor.
row from New York" he said. ITO
| bring punishment on a woman as old
as shf is hard But / am still ho3ing
70 the last. praying to the last that
the President viii grant us cIemency. /"
Eagles puts his faith In the Bible,
which he reads day and night. with
difficulty. however, as his other eye is
steadily falling him.
Il wouldn't change my Jewish faith
for anything" he added, "ana If I have
70 die, I viii die jew"
Admitting that ne Is broken up"
/ under the strain OF long months in
jail, Eagles nevertheless this morning
was cheerful and smiling as he talked
freely With his guards and others who
came 70 see the condemned men In
their cells.
Grateful TO Guards.
The three prisoners have no COM
Dlaint> 70 make about their treatment
/ IN TAIL They are all good fellows.
Eagles said. referring to their guards
Ihey"e done everything they could
( ior us and We are grateful TO them
+ EVerS morning Lewis Hawkins. our day
! guard. has cheerful word for US
f telling ug 10 keep on hoping 10 the
| last. IL has helped a great deal"
! This morning Eagles asked permis.
son 10 be shaved and IT was granted
/ He expected callers, Another surprise
was in store for him when Hawkin,
Drought him feather pillow. MY
lnsL 70 touch that pillow felt good" hs
] When he lis alone, Eagles reads hi
Bible and takes comfort from II -
Ike the Psalms and Proverbs best" he
shid. he ls now just finishing the BooI
I of JOB
! Proctor, young and good looking. /
perhaps the most cheerful Of the three
Today he ioked and talked in an appar
entiy happy ~go~iucky manner witt
/ persons VINO called on him.
Although the date Of their execution
is only two days OF, the three men ar
allowed their usual privileges and thetI
routine a. the iAii goes along iug
the same. Moreno kept 10 his cell toda'
and declined 70 con1e out 10 see news
paper men when they sought inter
yiews, but Proctor and Eagles tRlket
freely
They are holding up remarkabl
well, Mai. Peak said "They eat nor
mslly and take things al they come
They never give up hope and ] thin
they are ss happy as any one can b
under similar conditions.