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EMNtD.m7%.!■*Slayer of W. A. Crisp etH*** is J«Iy 192^ Dies a Gaflewj at State Penftenttary.YEAR’S FIGHT FOR LIFE X5BSFailure of Supreme Coicrt Appeal Followed by Pardo* Board Petftie* Without ResultThe year-old Dght to save Noah Arnold, negro murderer of W. A. Crfsp of Hope, from the gallows ended at 12 18 o’clock a. m. Friday, when i the trap was sprung at the state penitentiary and Arnold's body swung I by the neck from the end of the bem-j pen cord. He died within a few minutes after the trap was sprung, i Arnold and a negro companion, Mike Donnel’y who Is now serving a 1 life sentence in the state prison for . his participation in the crime, entered the rrlsp store at Hope the night of July 16. 1923 and held up the I proprietor and James Campbell, a j patron who was In the place at the | time. Crisp cursed his robbers while they were rifling his store and his pockets and when Arnold attempted to take from his pocket a watch which was a gift and a keepsake, he lost control and grappled with Arnold. The negro shot, the bnllet taking effect LnTBe abdomen. Camp-thithi.sic*»efttri.qurkbell, faced to the wall with Donnelly holding a gun at his back, saw the scuffle over his shoulder and when Arnold, alias Ford, shot. Campbell tnrned to aid the storekeeper. Donnelly struck Campbell over the head with his revolver butt, dazing him and knocking him to the floor, while Arnold shot twice at his prostrate body, the bullets narrowly missing his head and lodging in the floor. The bandits then left the store and ran to the west. Crisp was taken to a Spokane hospital bat died about S o’clock the following morning.Soon after the shooting, the alarm was given and the sheriffs office ‘heigTn»' organised^ --** posse-- -wMeit t**J Joined' --with one from Hope and for two weeks scoured the hills between Hope and Sandpolnt in search of the slayers. Arnold was taken from a Great Northern passenger train at Newport, after elndlng his pursuers, and Donnelly was caught a few nights later by Priest River men as he was attempting to cross a bridge over the Pend d’-Oreille river. Both at first denied their guilt, but Identification by Campbell and a sort of “kangaroo lynching party' for Arnold so shook Arnold's nerve that he confessed the j1 j crime and the shooting Donnelly then also confessing. Sentence was passedmifP*coihostc,priInistconIaioftwfrtco:alt“Ittinby District Judge W F McN'aoghton. jpagaicajallrocsecafter a hearing of testimony and the exhibit of evidence In the case, and Arnold's execution was set for November, 1923.Then began a fight for Arnold’s j life. A convict aid society of Boise engaged former Supreme Justice Mor- j ' gan to take the case, and an appeal I went up to the 5£ate supreme court I for It was heard and the sentence of the | court here sustained. Then Arnold ■ 012 £ ! sought a rehearing before the su- |11,1 r preme court but this was denied. He i set , 1 was brought back here and a new Gn'*; date set for execution. I'pon his re- tea• turn to Boise a new plea was filed , I*12with the state pardon board for com- . t*le' mutation of sentence to life imprison- 1 i ment. the petition evidently seeking thp 1 to set aside the execution date by ias asking the bearing of the case at the | board’s next session in January The tlc board however tooka no action upon nel 1 it and on the day of the execution its we: i members were out of Boise, two of ,1 them out of the state. I wh1 Following the arrest of Arnold and | Ier -1 Donnelly here, it was found that both | lag ? f“were ex-convicts, paroled from serv- f°r f tng manslaughter sentences of life sho ?1 imprisonment at the Washington refl i! state penitentiary at Walla Walla: ) “bb -! and it was also more or less indicated jteaithat Donnelly was the bandit who i shot and wounded former Sheriff William Kirkpatrick, following the Ponderay hotel holdup here in May. 1923, and thht he and Arnold were probably the men who held op and robbed the Plains, Mont. bank a few days later.Arnold’s execution was the first in Idaho since 1909. when Fred Seward paid with.his life for the murder of! - a Latah county girL Arnold’s hang-i ing took place from the scaffold built ► j for the execution of David Hoagland 11 for the murder of his landlord, W. D.: i Patterson. Hoagland was saved, at , least temporarily, by a last minute • reprieve from the state pardon board.p’aJ42-FieBat g. 1D f. 14t Sta Foa MCn S 35-Fiei 10. Bar 0: I
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Sandpoint Pend Oreille Review
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Thu, Dec 25, 1924
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