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TIME, April 29 (National Affairs, "Death of De Boe") unfairly calls Mr. Phil Hanna "a professional executioner . . . from Illinois," unkindly cuts his visage three-quarters away in the accompanying picture of ''Robber-not a Rapist'' De Boe. No professional, no executioner, Mr. Hanna is a gentleman farmer who lives on land that has been in the family since 1808. . . . He has assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose...
...tell you I was a robber-not a rapist," the 23-year-old culprit shouted. "I haven't got justice." He looked down on his trembling old father, whom someone was holding up, and on his red-eyed sister, who had spent three days trying to get Governor Laffoon to pardon her brother. "I don't see that woman around here. Where is she at? Is Mrs. Johnson in the crowd?" Nine times De Boe called for Mrs. Johnson, the Iuka merchant's wife he was convicted of attacking when he robbed her husband's store...
Guilty as Rapist? (Cont...
Guilty as Rapist...
...think that when a country sends a man to this country as an Ambassador, or in any other capacity, it certainly should not send a murderer, or a rapist, or a man who would commit arson; at least it should send one who would not be guilty of any one of those three classes of crimes. When they have no regard for this country, but send that class of people here, I think that when they kill children on the street, when they take American girls to places for debauchery and debauch them and brag on it, and openly violate...