Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1931 — Page 14

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‘3OOZE DID IT.' SAYS SOY WHO IS FACING CHAIR Td Never Touch Another Drop,’ He Declares in Death Cell. This is the second of three stories shout Russel McWilliams. l-vear-old slaver, who must die In the electric chair at Joliet penitentiary a week from now. It tells of his experiences in prison, what he thinks now about life and death, runs and liauor. and what be has to tell other voune folk. Views of Clarence Harrow. Governor la>uis L. Emerson and members of the board of pardon and oarole also are told. BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec. 4.— lmminence of death is teaching Russell McWilliams how sweet it is to live. The 17-j ear-olu slayer of a street car motorman who faces electrocution next Friday in Joliet penitentiary said today tna* he would give anything in the world to be able to live his life cVer again. “I’d never to-rh another drop of liquor and I'd never look at another gun,” the six-foot, shy, friendly youth said. “Young fellov.s and girls my age don’t know what fools they are to fool witt guns or drinks. I don’t even remember what happened that night I shot William Sayles and by this time next week maybe I’ll be living my last day on earth.” “It Looks Bad for Me” There was a wistful note in Russell’s voice. His blue eyes peered earnestly from under his blue prison cap. “I know,” he went on in a muffled tone, “it looks bad for me. The Governor didn’t commute my sentence. But still—maybe somehow I’ll be saved from that thing in there.” His head jerked toward that part of the massive prison where the electric chair waits at the end of “death row.” Russell’s cell is on the first floor of the building for solitary confinement. He has a rocker. All his meals are sent in. Two photographs are in the cell. One is that of his mother, Mrs. Robert McWilliams, who comes with Russell’s father from Rockford as often as she is permitted to visit the condemned youth. Russell does not reveal the name of the woman in the other photograph. “She’s a Christian lady who sent me a Bible and writes encouraging letters to me,” he said. Thousands Behind Him By the sentence of Judge Arthur E. Fisher of Winnebago county circuit court, Russell McWilliams is a murderer. By decision of Governor Louis L. Emmerson of Illinois and the state board of pardon and parole, he deserves to die at society’s hand because he broke society’s laws. Thousands of people of the country do not believe the state should claim the life of one so young. Russell gets from ten to twenty letters a day from these folk, who encourage him and promise to intercede in his behalf. Among those who argued before the state pardon and parole board that Russell should not be sent to the electric chair was Clarence Darrow of Chicago. “Age Is the greatest mitigating circumstance in dealing with a death sentence,” Darrow said. “If ii isn’t, why do we have laws on our statutes providing special treatment for juvenlies? Why do we have juvenile courts and juvenile homes?” Darrow insisted it was absurd to contend that a death sentence stops murder. Call Murder Cold-Blooded “There are 400 killings for every person put to death for murder,” he argued. “Which way are we going, backward or forward? Is it to be a 15-year-old boy who is sentenced to die next? “It is strange that for all the modifications in the criminal laws the last 100 years for the creation of juvenile homes and courts, still we send a 17-year-old boy to the electric chair.” A statement by the parole board to which the Governor subscribed, stated, in part: “The only mitigating circumstance urged on behalf of the petitioner is his youth. It is admitted that he committed a cold-blooded, wanton murder while engaged in another felonious act. He deliberately shot to death an elderly man who had a right to live and who was engaged in earning his livelihood in a lawful manner. It was a brutal killing without provocation.” Russell confessed lie shot Sayles after robbing him mid seven passengers on his street car, but blamed the liquor he drank.

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EVA TANGUAY TOPS BILL AT INDIANA Walker Whiteside Opens a Two-Day Engagement Tonight at English’s in His Latest Production, “Surf.” A CAST of screen favorites whose versatility has been proven in past film appearances makes a further bid for laurels in “Girls About Town,” Paramount’s celluloid document of the gay girls coming to the Indiana screen for the week starting today. Heading the list of film and stage stars of the cast are Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugenq Pallette and Allan Dinehart. Others who are seen and heard in ' contributory roles are Anderson Lawler, George Barbier, Lucile Gleason, Robert McWade and Judith Wood. Miss Francis and Miss Tashman divide the honors of the title role.

Miss Francis, who recently appeared as Clive Brook’s errant wife in “24 Hours,” is the less hard-boiled of this team of gold-diggers. She falls in love with a wealthy young man, Joel McCrea, whom she had set out to make her victim. Miss Tashman sticks to the guns of her piratical mode of living, not forsaking her code of society racketeering until the last ditch. Eugene Pallette is the fun-loving rover who comes to the big city as a wealthy business man, but suffers a near-deflation at the hands of the “Girls About Town.” Allan Dinehart is the crafty employer of the two girls who riiakes a comfortable living himself out of the “digging” activities of his fair associates. Asa special attraction for the coming week, Charlie Davis and the Indiana Theater Joy Gang will present a novel program from the orchestra pit. Eva Tanguay and her “Gay Old Timers,” a Fanchon and Marco Idea production bringing back some of the popular features of yester-years’ footlights, will furnish the state entertainment proper. Ten acts including Tom Kelly, Rice and Caddy, Sylvia and Joyce, Cho Cho, George Harrison and Cos Alexander and Evelyn, and Freddie Ford are on this bill.

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PARENTS TO GIVE A PLAY The Kendall Dramatic Club, an organization which is composed of parents who have or have had children in School No. 62, and teachers from this school, will present “The Call cf Youth,” a three-act comedydrama, in the auditorium of the school tonight at 8 p. m. The proceeds derived from this presentation are to be used to bring Christmas cheer to families in the neighborhood of the school, and to buy clothing for the needy children in this school. Mrs. Claude Lett is president gs the club and Miss Maxine McKay is director. The Kendall Players won third place in the Municipal Drama tournament which was conducted last year by the park board and the Civic Theatre and the downtown papers. The cast in the play includes Mrs. Pearl Gwynn, Mrs. Flora Keller, Mrs. Ethelwynne Arnholter, Mrs. Marie Pier, Mrs. Kathryn Fontaine, Mrs. Letta Lett, Mrs. Fretta Seitz, Miss Virginia Lett, Jim Williams, Paul Keller, Carl Paul, Robert Shaver, and Marshall Kealing. o a u Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Frankenstein” at the Apollo, “Rich

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