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: BOWLIN GIVENDEATH SENTENCE,P First Death Sentence for Slayer of Negro.At n ppwinl term of the Jack-son Circuit Court Judge A. J.« K irk pronounced the death sen-, tence on Ewen Bowlin., for the s murder of Samuel Crawford last October, George, a brother of Ewen, was Given an indetemt i-nate sentence to the penitentiary.Both brothers are under thirty years of age,’•I Following is Judge Kirks sen-1 tence in full:Mr. Ewen Bowlin, on the26th a day of October, at the last Oc-n tobcr term ,,f the Breathitt Circuit Court. 1911. the grand ju-v ry of Breathitt county returned t k an indictment against you. charg-- ing you with the wilful murder of e i Sam Craw ford,t At the present term of this k court, a jury was empnnneled to v try you on this charge. After the j jury was accepted, you entered I e your plea of not guilty,’'and- after a full hearing by the jury of , the evidence, and argument of . counsel, and after duly consider r. ing the case, the jury returned n l* verdict,finding you guiity of wil*'ful rnurdcr and fixing .vour 1 punishment at death. Have you. n any legal reason to show wiiy the a judgement of thocourt should not i lie pronounced against you , u Ewan Botin: Well, I didn't f get a fair trial. The court known « I didn’t get a fair trial, andi everybody that was here at the t trial knows it ij The Court: That is aiiuestion e settled by the fgotion andi: grounds.VN«i I. ;i I rs*«on i-nog life, v-i■ It will ta lay duty tc iv^s ;khit: you mv judgment :,dl- -wing the j verdict, t nay add that ft is a; | solemn and trying hour ti you. | i and u most unpleasant one to Hie.111 am now called ui*n to perform ‘I the moat painful duty’ of my pub-tjilc life, hut it is my duty, my i! high and solemn duly, a duty 1 I owe to society and government, ,■ and which I must perform; and 'had you jmrformed the obliga- |; lions resting ujwn you as a man ; and citizen. and lived uprightly, ,■ and hurt nobody, 1 would have | been spared the painful feeling of ]■ this occasion and you would not iov, be compelled to drink this , cup of bitterness to its dregs; but you have disregarded the obliga- , lions you owed to society and | shown to the world that you ( possess o heart desperately depraved and fa)ally beat on i mischief, lb- kinder and nobler t feeling.- of your nature sum, not to have a iodgmeni in it. tYou have wantonly anp wick- t odly imbued your band in the j blood of your fellow man, anil that blood now cries from the, -arth against you. You have la ken the life of a human being, and sept a creature bearing God V [ image unbidden into His pres- c ence. You have taken that y which ail the demons in purgatory, and men on earth, or the I angels in lleavin, can not give; \ no creature in Heaven above, or earth beneath, can give life to a f blade of grass save God alone. By taking life you have robbed lt;a creature of his all in all. Alhi that n man hath will he give for r his life. It is the precious gift t of lt;h# immortal God. IHad Sam Crawford been pus- r sessed of ail the treasures of f earth, in order to save hi* life 11 and live out hi* allotted days, he t would have surrendered them ail; hut you gave him no chance for t capita ution; not a moment’s time a in which to say I/rd be mercp i fyl to me a sinner,” but robbed i Continued on page f. •
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Salyersville Kentucky Mountaineer
Salyersville, Kentucky, US
Fri, Jan 12, 1912
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