Volume 032-1 - January 1978 (6 pages)

ln the Supreme Afourt, STATE OF CALIRORNI&. REMITTITUR ‘Lafle Buc . Paid by: Paid by St 4, > ora ongh Clerk. oy API Vibe Qu OP SEF Mba Clete farnesO lby prt ttiller, Mefug After 8 months lived in agonizing limbo, not knowing whether he was to be hanged or granted a new trial, George Butts received this remittitur; the Supreme Court will offer no relief. Clerk’s Deputy y. eran cee = CO foe it . MLLLYG py) esbruct Covert, Why y ae te Whopelyato es N ~ ld bt Ovaur for hy prevecus Vale (feria , ary Coble, [arrerteres aa, Joh sete am re da Ge “the dah Wie PPE hored, eet tb chon 4 thee pevctccet df d, Me fo A vets Pou, hype peg as pe tee apf, RAUL, GH IM. the ll. Set areed, + iy . cboter 2 aK, MLf, [peulenryy Sely fehacrifhe G diy. cat {Hf oy ee: calfy hal buceued Ci hs foul . ( + othe (eek Marrash, CU /S a acd rd a OG dig tthe Slap warned vi ‘i 0 aol un ten th Ue becactd face ab ae Mtl 4% Haat; te George: ed p the < ie gad by iA he peebd rd late GF Wettel d Ad 4 fell, Norecs, f Ys Cases i en CN. By 4 RCT Gh ley _Marig Order for Butts’ execution, issued September 9, was carried out on schedule and the certification of its completion with attendant details, “by the neck until dead,” signed by then county Sheriff William Montgomery, and by Philip Byrne, Under Sheriff. Excursion to Storms Ranch where there was dancing on the picnic platform under colored lights, and where a fine collation was laid on by a local caterer. COLOSSAL BERRIES Mr. Felix Gillet displayed a box containing 4 pounds of the famous Bonne Bouche strawberries. grown in his nursery. Each berry measured from 4 to 6 inches in diameter. There was the planking of Main and Commercial Streets to entertain the foot traffic and, at month’s close, a large and enthusiastic crowd filled the Nevada Theater to hear internationally famous Henry Ward Beecher, of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., lecture on the Wastes and Burdens of Society. The one man perhaps most closely identified to the wastes and burdens of society was not in the audience. He was in the County Jail House, ticking off the days until September 9 when the District Court was to make official pronouncement of his sentence. The scaffold that had been constructed back in March had been permitted to stand throughout the summer, drawing considerable criticism from people who deemed the grizzly reminder an injustice to Butts, still waiting word on his appeal. The Board of Supervisors had spoken, however, with a firm, “Let it stand.” On the appointed day, as Butts was led into the courtroom, one member of the audience, with the thin juice of decency coursing his veins, lowered the blind so that Butts need not look out upon the instrument designed to claim his life. Given a chance to speak, Butts said, “What I wanted to say is, I ain’t had no fair show.” All decent men felta sort of pity “for the death doomed wretch who sat there before them, unflinchingly, as the sentence was read out: Hanging to take place October 1. Two days later, Professor O Cedarstorm, a noted phrenologist, arrived to examine Butts. “Your head is very small, the size of a five year old boy’s. Small in body, too. Perhaps born under adverse conditions, you became a stranger to good society. Having small head and body, and ignorant in the extreme, it comes natural to you to think everybody will impose upon you. “By way of counsel to you in this unhappy hour, I will say, folke generally think it a dreadful occurrence to die a day or so ahead of time. Let me tell you, itis nothing at all. It is just like squaring up your bills and moving into another boarding house.” 5.

ln the Supreme Afourt, STATE OF CALIRORNI&. REMITTITUR ‘Lafle Buc . Paid by: Paid by St 4, > ora ongh Clerk. oy API Vibe Qu OP SEF Mba Clete farnesO lby prt ttiller, Mefug After 8 months lived in agonizing limbo, not knowing whether he was to be hanged or granted a new trial, George Butts received this remittitur; the Supreme Court will offer no relief. Clerk’s Deputy y. eran cee = CO foe it . MLLLYG py) esbruct Covert, Why y ae te Whopelyato es N ~ ld bt Ovaur for hy prevecus Vale (feria , ary Coble, [arrerteres aa, Joh sete am re da Ge “the dah Wie PPE hored, eet tb chon 4 thee pevctccet df d, Me fo A vets Pou, hype peg as pe tee apf, RAUL, GH IM. the ll. Set areed, + iy . cboter 2 aK, MLf, [peulenryy Sely fehacrifhe G diy. cat {Hf oy ee: calfy hal buceued Ci hs foul . ( + othe (eek Marrash, CU /S a acd rd a OG dig tthe Slap warned vi ‘i 0 aol un ten th Ue becactd face ab ae Mtl 4% Haat; te George: ed p the < ie gad by iA he peebd rd late GF Wettel d Ad 4 fell, Norecs, f Ys Cases i en CN. By 4 RCT Gh ley _Marig Order for Butts’ execution, issued September 9, was carried out on schedule and the certification of its completion with attendant details, “by the neck until dead,” signed by then county Sheriff William Montgomery, and by Philip Byrne, Under Sheriff. Excursion to Storms Ranch where there was dancing on the picnic platform under colored lights, and where a fine collation was laid on by a local caterer.

COLOSSAL BERRIES Mr. Felix Gillet displayed a box containing 4 pounds of the famous Bonne Bouche strawberries. grown in his nursery. Each berry measured from 4 to 6 inches in diameter. There was the planking of Main and Commercial Streets to entertain the foot traffic and, at month’s close, a large and enthusiastic crowd filled the Nevada Theater to hear internationally famous Henry Ward Beecher, of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., lecture on the Wastes and Burdens of Society. The one man perhaps most closely identified to the wastes and burdens of society was not in the audience. He was in the County Jail House, ticking off the days until September 9 when the District Court was to make official pronouncement of his sentence. The scaffold that had been constructed back in March had been permitted to stand throughout the summer, drawing considerable criticism from people who deemed the grizzly reminder an injustice to Butts, still waiting word on his appeal. The Board of Supervisors had spoken, however, with a firm, “Let it stand.” On the appointed day, as Butts was led into the courtroom, one member of the audience, with the thin juice of decency coursing his veins, lowered the blind so that Butts need not look out upon the instrument designed to claim his life. Given a chance to speak, Butts said, “What I wanted to say is, I ain’t had no fair show.” All decent men felta sort of pity “for the death doomed wretch who sat there before them, unflinchingly, as the sentence was read out: Hanging to take place October 1. Two days later, Professor O Cedarstorm, a noted phrenologist, arrived to examine Butts. “Your head is very small, the size of a five year old boy’s. Small in body, too. Perhaps born under adverse conditions, you became a stranger to good society. Having small head and body, and ignorant in the extreme, it comes natural to you to think everybody will impose upon you. “By way of counsel to you in this unhappy hour, I will say, folke generally think it a dreadful occurrence to die a day or so ahead of time. Let me tell you, itis nothing at all. It is just like squaring up your bills and moving into another boarding house.” 5.