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The Hutchinson, Kansas, News-tteratc!, Saturday, February 27, 1943 Page SPleads For Life 01 MurdererGov* ScItocpjiicM flke* Case Under AdvisementTopeka (/P)—Governor Schoep-pel took urtder advisement the question whether Fred L. Brody should hnttg ai the stole penitentiary March 20 after hearing the sentence described os unreasonable and extreme,The governor indicated ho would ahhoUhce his decision on the appeal for executive clemency within a few days.Brady pleaded guilty to the first degree murder of Joe Williams, Arkansas City Negro who Was shot in the back Jan. 9 during an attempted holdup.C. H. Quier of Winfield, Brady’s attorney, told the governor his client’s pleo was entered on his advice, nnd with the expectation that a life sentence would be Imposed,’ Instead, District Judge Stewart Bioss sentenced him to death.“He's willing to pay the ordinary, reasonable punishment which has been the punishment here in this state for 70 years, Quier protested. “After 70 years IIseems to me this Is an unreasonable, extreme penalty.”Quler said Brady has a wife and two sisters who would be affected by the execution.‘‘About the time Fred Brody Is executed, his wife will gfve birth to his child, he Baid, explaining that Mrs. Brady could not be present for the hearing. “That child would have to go through life with the stlgmn of his father having been hanged.Although he did not go into detail about his legal theory of the enso, Quier explained he has appealed to the state supreme court on the view that n man cannot be sentenced to death in Kansas on a plea of guilty without aDANGER!!...Uuprt (mfcatf prtpfcrt fg* A tofifclMKaitftftttoaM-i* CAT PEOPLEATK fox theatreaiortlft* Wed., Mar. 3, for 4 I»*y«Jury. The court has set April 9 for a hearing.Opposing clemency was Cowley County Attorney John A. Her-* loeker, who presented petition* bearing 6B names and several newspaper editorials urging that the death sentence be carried out.Rend News-Herald Want Ads.INSULATEKf^t hw*t out Mimmrr ...» ttlnier krrp It In! L'w Philip CarryInaitlnllnn . . . Ihr Mfrit fUlit Biosft etllttrttitDecker-Mat+ison21 IVcst 1stWHEN IT’S TIME TO MOVEThink ofCODYRalph Cody. Owner707 So. Main Phone 219
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sat, Feb 27, 1943
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