Evening star., 1938-06-16
Abductor Of Jimmy Cash
Listens to Sentence
Without Emotion.
REMOVED FROM COURT
UNDER HEAVY GUARD
Judge Atkinson Privately Says
Crime Was 'Cold.Blooded.'
No Appeal to Be Taken.
(Picture on Page A-5.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, June 16.-Franklin
Pierce Mccall, 81. was sentenced today
to die in the electric chair for the kid
naping Of Jimmy Cash, jr.
Cautioning the crowded courtroom
to keep quiet, Circuit Judge H. F. At
kinson called the minister's son to
the bench.
You plead guilty to the offense as
charged Of kidnapping and holding
James Bailey Cash. jr., for ransom
What have you to say for YOURSELF"
he demanded.
Mccall merely shook his head
II find you guilty as charged in the
Indictment" the judge continued, "the
same being a capital of1ense under
the laws Of Florida, and I sentence
you to be held until such time as you
shall be delivered to the superintend-
ent of the State prison at Raiford,
there to be held safely until a death
sentence shall be carried out"
Governor to Fix Date.
The judge said the Governor would
fix the date for the execution, specified
the prisoner was to be put to death
by electricity and concluded with the
customary May God have mercy on
your soul"
He made no further comment in
court on the $4,000 ransom abduction
Mccall confessed to have perpetrated
at Princeton May % but remarked
privately that 1T was the most cold
blooded thing / ever heard of-there
were no mitigating circumstances in
this case"
Mccall heard his doom without
flinching. His face was impassive, and
he looked straight ahead. Afterward
under heavy guard, he was taken to
an elevator and returned to his cell.
Verdict Not to BE Appealed.
Jack Kehoe, the defense attorney
appointed by the court, said he
thought Mccall had received . fair
trial yesterday and that there would
be no appeal. He said he had fol-
lowed McCall's instructions in repre-
senting him and that he conferred
with the defendant this morning, and
Mccall declared he had nothing te
say.
Mccall told the court at hearing
yesterday how he carried out the kid
naping
mo one else ever had money tempt
them that much" he said.
Mccall sat with eyes downcast while
James Bailey Cash, ST.. father Of the
dead boy. and Mrs. Cash identified
pajamas worn by their son, but main.
tanned he never intended killing tn.
boy.
He told of entering the Cash home
after cutting the screen Of q bach
door.
Il picked Skeegie up in my arms,
he said, land placed two large. white
clean handkerchiefs over his face
I went out the back door. He ap-
peared to be sleeping. I carried him
in both arms and held the handker-
chiefs over his mouth and, I guess
over his nose, but didn't know it.
Tells Of Finding Boy Dead.
Mccall related he walked to hi.
home in the darkness, placed the child
on a bed and tried to awaken him.
Il tried artificial respiration" hi
said. IT had heard it sometime.
worked with people who had beer
strangled. got cold water from the
icebox and bathed his face, but he
didn't wake up.
Il saw he was dead and didnt
know what to do"
With no particular place in mind
Mccall said, he took the body into
the woods and left it in thicket.
He then told how he went home
and got the ransom note he had pre-
pared five days before. He also told
Of delivering two other notes, the last
Of which he himself pretended to find
DR.. Joseph Otto. who performed the
autopsy, said he was unable to deter
mine the. cause of death because OF
decomposition, but that he found nc
signs Of violence.