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‘ BOWUN GIVENDEATH SENTENCE,. First Death Sentence for Slayer of | Hepo. At » ppwinl term of the Jack* son Circuit Court Judge A, J. e K irk pronounced the death sen-'. tencc on Eweri Bowlin, for the =i murder of Samuel Craw ford Inst October, George. a brother of Ewen, was Given an indetermi- i nato aentenceto the penitentiary. i Both brothers are under thirty I years of age,-I Following is Judge Kirks sen-1 tenee in full:Mr. Ewen Bowlin, on the26th 1 i day of October, at the last Oc- : i totier term ,f the Breathitt i Circuit Court, 1911, th# grand ju- p ry of Breathitt county returned t t an indictment against you, ehnrg- ,i■ inn you with the wilful murder of [ I ? Sum Craw ford.t At the present term of this ' ( court, a jury empunncled to , try you on this charge, Aft«-r the, i -1 jury was accepted, you entered I ■ your plea of not guilty, and M after a full hearing bv the jury of i the evidence, and argument of 1 counsel, and after duly consider ' i , mg the case, the j ury returned a ; verdict,finding you guilty of wil* i ful murder and fixing your I 1 punishment at death. Have you ^ i i any legal reason to show wliy the i i judgement of thocourt should not ii Ik? pronounced against you? , 1 Ewen Bolin: Well, I didn't. lt;r get ft fair trial. The court knows» 1 didn’t get a fair trial, and 1 everybody that was here at the I L trial knows iL iii The Court: That is aiiue-lion ■ licttlod by the potion and i ground...',‘NV I* ; I rei-mn h«ingufe, vor■ ft wifi l)i lay duty U jv^s ;on , : you mv . udgmcnt folk-wing the , i verdict. I may add that it is a t ;, roietnn and trying hour P you.,and a most unpleasant one tonic, i i I am now called upon to perform the mot,i painful duty of my pub-.flic life, hul it is my duty, my high and solemn duty, a duty 1 1 owe to society and government, j and which 1 must perform; and hud you per formed |he oblige- [ lives resting ujkiii you u-c a man jlt; and citizen, and lived uprightly, n and hurl •uilwdy, 1 would have | been spared the painful feeling of r this o'casivn and you would not f ov. be compelled to drink this t cup of bittern as to it:; dregs; but • you have disregarded the obliga- » tjons you owed to society a.id f shown to the world that you 0 possess o lirurt desperately dc-praved and fatally bent on 0 mischief, ih- kinder and nobler y feelingr of \mir nature seen, not to have a lodgment in it. tYou have wantonly a tip wick- a edly imbued your hstul in the f, blood of your fellow man, and that blood now cries from the Aah against you. You have u ken (he life of a human being, and sunt a creature bearing God's f, image unbidden into His pres- 0 cnee. You have taken that y which ail the demons in purgatory. and men on earth, or the fi angels in Heaven, can not give, « no creature in Heaven above, or earth lieneath, can give life to a f blade of grass save God alone.By taking life you have robbed o a creature of his all in all. Aliio that a man hath will he give for r hie life. It is the precious gift ti of ihe immortal God. IIHad Ham Crawfon] been poa- n sensed of all the treasures of a earth, in order to rave his life , u and live out his allotted days, he ti would have surrendered them all; but you gave him no chance for v capita n lion; not a moment’■ lime a in which to say Iprd be mercp h fyl to me a sinner, but robbed n I Continued on page I e
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Salyersville Kentucky Mountaineer
Salyersville, Kentucky, US
Fri, Jan 12, 1912
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