Hall Had Planned Murder Of Five Others, Clergyman Who Interviewed Him Says
4 Th Newi-ReyitwRouburj, Ore. Mon. Dc. 21. 1933
(Editor'! Note: The following ac-! Heady was written at the invita-. saw. talked to and gave spiritual so, Christ could do it tor anybody.
mint of Hi ipution nf Carl linn of The Kansas Citv Star bv counsel to the two in preparation i Know.
Austin Hall and Bonnie Brownlone of the eight clergymen who for their execution early Friday. "Father, I'm an intelligent
: 'line auuior insists on remaining i man." Be said, "mis isn I a con
anonymous and has written this version because I n afraid of
in an effort to point out the Chris- death. i've never been afraid of
tian values involved. It was made j death. All my life I've been won
available to the Associated Press i denng, thinking. And if it made
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JEFFERSON' CITY. Mo. I
Carl Hall died a tremendous wit
ness for Christ.
And it saved the lives of five
others.
This he declared, for the world
lo know, j:ist before he and Bonnie
Brown Heady were executed at
12:12 Friday morning tor tne kid-nap-murder
of little Bobby Green
lease. "I can see good in this, father,"
he said to one who was minister
ing to him. "I only killed Bobby.
If I had had just 12 hours more.
I would have killed five more. God
saved me from that."
. Did he mean five more from
among those identified with the
case?
"Oh. no." said Hall. "I mean
five that I've hated all my life.
I'd have gotten them too, with all
that money, it would have been
easy. See what 1 mean? killed
only one, and was caught. It
mizht have been six five more."
He paused, and then said with
emphasis:
"That's the working of Christ.
It had to he. I had murder in
my heart. God knew, and saved
those five others."
He lit a cigarette.
''I'm glad," he added, "and you
can do something for me, father.
Tell the world. Tell them that only
God is important. I know now.
And tell them that if it weren't
for whisky, these penitentiaries
would be closed.
"Tell the world, father. Iok
if Christ could do this for me. a
mean, drunken, miserable so-and
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sense to intelligent men all over
the world, there must be some
thing to it."
"And now I'm ready for God,
my Judge, and I m glad."
But what about Bonnie? was she
equally repentant?
"Sure," said Hall. "Shell
tell you. She loves me and I love
her. I know her oetter man any
one else.
"Bonnie was drunk for a year..,
I was drunk daily for months
After a while anything seems all
nght. I'm the guilty one. She
couldn't say no to me. The only
sin she's guilty of was loving me.''
That was 9 p m. Thursday night.
Three hours to go. Hall asked the
time and laughed.
"I haven't got long to live, fath
er, he aatd, "not here, anyway.
And I'm looking forward to meet
ine my judge."
Mrs. Heady was hesitant about
speaking her mind, until the hours
dragged along and 11 p.m. arrived.
"I'm not going to go down there
crying," she said. "Of course we're
both sorry for this horrible crime.
We want to be forgiven.
Both Hall and Mrs. Heady re
ceived holy unction.
Both, accepted crucifixes gladly.
And each went to the execution
chamber with a crucifix clutched
tightly in the left hand.
Eleven-twenty came.
Final ministration in the death
row took place. Hall and Mrs.
Heady were led willingly out into
the corridor, past 7 locks, into the
prison yard.
Quietly, the 32 witnesses walked
to the death shack.
Inside a room, perhaps 30 feet
square, was the cubicle, in which
two chairs were fixed to the floor.
A psalm was read. Together the
two priests and the condemned re
pealed the Lord's Prayer. Then
confession and absolution. They
held hands, despite the cuffs.
In the adjoining room guards
were mixing the sulphuric aoid and
water.
OK. out of Hie way." called the
deputy marshal.
"bee you later." said a priest to
Bonnie.
'Sure." she said. 'Thank von.
father."
See you later. Carl." he said
to the other.
"You bet you will, father.'' Hall
said. '
Then, auicldv. they were stran-
ped into the chairs.
A final questioning by the
marshal, asking them if they had
anything further to confess, if they
knew of the whereabouts of the
missing ransom money.
No, they didn't.
The door was closed and sealed.
Bonnie spoke to Carl. He licked
his lips.
Those watching had no trouble
reading her lips.
"Carl."
"Yeh."
"Carl. I love you."
"I love you. Bonnie."
The cyanide was spilled.
Gas fumes soared to the ceiling
of the cubicle.
They started.
Bonnie moved as if to spring
from her chair.
Pained breathing, diminishing.
And then death. In seven min
utes, at 12:12 a.m.
"I never saw suah resignation,"
said Marshal Hoag. "It was won
derful. Wonderful to really accept
Christ like that."
Soon the gas was blown out of
the cubicle. Tne witnesses mareneu
out again, and back to the main
gate.
"Boy, said his friend as they
walked along, "say, it's cold.
Coldern'n hell."
And :o it ended as strangely as
it had begun.
Neither had any hatred or mal
ice. A contrast, in many ways, to
some of those who witnessed their
deaths.
The cell block again came to life.
You could hear the prisoners
chant: "They bumped them."
"O God." said one of the 32.
"why ds me have to wait so long
to find out ttie eternal truth about
living?"
Theft Of 656 Mink Pelfs
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NW YORK Ifl Tenor Jussi
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PORTLAND ' The theft of ,.,.,-t,. ..,h l.rvnoitin tried Thorn.
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Joseph H. Wagstaff. Salt Lake' but bad to give up alter the first
City mink grower, said he valued act.
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Mrs. Alton's False j
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. W) Suit of,
Mrs. Mary Ellen Alton, wife of a j
University of Oregon professor, for
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The court held that the city and
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