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Four Boys To Be Executed.
(By A. W. Parke)
Little Rock, June 4.—In three
short years a wonderful change
has come over the people resid
ing north of the Mason-Dixon
line. Less than that number of
years ago nine tenths of the
daily papers of the north were
j contributing unlimited space to
i advertising the alleged fact that
i “Arkansas was to legally mur
der a negro boy”. Today, with
| four white boys in the shadow of
[the electric chair at the Arkan
sas penitentiary not a word is
said by our northern friends in
[their behalf.
Earl Gilchrist, an overgrown
i negro youth, in a spirit of re
venge, and with the wantoness
I of a savage, murdered a play
| mate. He was convicted and
sentenced to hang. The north
ern papers took up the fight,
and thousands of letters poured
in daily on Gov. G. W Dona
ghey. The result was that the
1 sentence of Gilchrist was eom
| muted, and he was sent to the
penitentiary for life, where he
! since gained an unenviable rep
: utation as an unruly convict
| None of the sentiment lavish
| ed on a negro is to be found or
! expressed for the four bright
faced white boys who are soon
to be executed for murder unless
I executive clemency is shown.
I Four handsome, vet unfortunate
| boys, all sons of good mothers,
'look through the barred win
j dows of the death cells at the
| Arkansas penitentiary receive
ing but few words of cheer, at a
time of life when they should be
prepared for life work.
Arthur Dewein, a runaway
youth from East St. Louis, occu
pies a death cell with Arthur
Tillman, twice convicted of the
murder of his sweetheart, A
manda Stephens. Both boys
are frank of countenance, have
piercing black eyes and coal
black hair. No one would look
at these beardless youths and
suspect they had committed
murder, or that it would be pos
sible for them to. Dewein has
confessed that he took part in
the murder of an aged merchant
at Benton. A boy not used to
the hardships of the world, and
thrown on his own resources,
he consented to rob the mer
chant, and in the act, the old
man was struck on the head and
killed- Tillman is charged with
murdering his sweetheart by
shooting her in the head, and
then weighting the body and
casting it in a well. The most
damaging evidence against him
was that of a neighbor who tes
tified to seeing Tillman go to
the well at night and look over
its brink. Tillmian claims the
crime was committed by a mar
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' ried man in the vicinity, to cov
er another crime of which he
was guilty. The jury evidently
believed the witness and not the
youth, yet it does seem as if
there is sufficient doubt to spare
th& life of the boy and leave it
| to later years to unravel the
mystery. It would be a rather
sad affair for Tillman if in later
years a deathbed confession
would remove from him the
stain of guilt, and Tillman had
been executed for the crime,
Arthur Hodgins, red headed,
treckled faced and possessing all
the energy of the country youth,
is deserving of possibly more
sympathy than any of the other
convicted youths. Hodgins
“just grew up”, Like Topsy,
he lacked the guiding hand of
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a mother. He never knew what
mother love is, and from early
childhood he wa3 forced to shift
for himself. It is claimed that
he was afflicted with a mental
affliction, and this did not add
j to his chances of success- About
a year ago he got into trouble
'for some trivial offense against
| the peace and dignity of the
! Clarke county vicinity in which
he resided. He was arrested and
on the way to jail jerked a re
volver from the pocket of the
officer and killed him. It would
be a burning disgrace for Ark
ansas to execute this afflicted
youth. Yet, no one has peti
tioned from the far north, or
from the state either, for the
commutation of Hodgins’ 'sen- j
tence.
Joe Strong, the swarthy little
cellmate of Hodgins, was con
victed of the murder at Ben
ton, for which Dewein was also
[sentenced to death. He is all
boy, effervescent, cheerful and
boisterous. Even the close prox
imity of the electric chair does 1
not get upon his nerves as it
does upon the other three of
the quartette.
The good women of Arkansas
should interest themselves in j
cases of these four boys. They
should not be put to death at the
age when most boys are still
saying their prayers at mother's
knee. Petitions from all sec
tions of the state should pour
in on Governor Hays asking for
commutation of the sentences.
The people of Arkansas should
at least show as much interest in
these striplings as did the peo
ple of the north in a burly ne
gro brute, who was guilty of a
far more dastardly crime. The
people of Arkansas can execute
or save these boys, just as they
desire—a lack of intesest wiH
denote they want to see the
boys executed
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