Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 33

* SLAVERASKS STAY AFTERCONVERSN James Horace Alderman Is Sentenced to Die on August 17. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, July 25.— Religious conversion holds out a hope for life to a condemned Floridan. James Horace Alderman, 50-year-old desperado sentenced to die August 17 for killing two Coast Guardsmen and a secret service man, has appealed to President Hoover for executive clem- ency on the grounds that he has be- come converted to the Christian faith and has in turn converted scores of other criminals. Alderman apparently lost a year'sl legal battle to escape hanging when the United States Supreme Court in June refused to take a hand in his case. Leads Prayer Meetings. ‘While attorneys were fighting for his | life in three courts, Alderman declares that he led regular prayer meetings in the Jacksonville jail and gave spiritual relief to his cell mates. Alderman’s killing of three Govern- ment operatives climaxed a long career of crime that had for its background both Florida coasts as well as the Ever- glades. Convicted of rum-running and the robbery of a Seminole Indian chieftain, Alderman served prison terms for both offenses before he was found guilty of | murder. At the time of his arrest on the latter charge he was under bond, Asks for Stay | J. H. ALDERMAN. DELEGATES ARE ELECTED. Named to Represent Legion Post at August Convention. Delegates to represent the James Reese Europe Post of the American Le- fion at the convention of the Leglon the Wilson Normal School next month were elected at a meeting of the post at the Twelfth Street Branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation Tuesday night. The delegates are Elisna E. Almond, commander of the accused of smuggling aliens into the | United States from Cuba. | Taken on Cutter. In August, 1927, Alderman, his con- fessed partner in liquor traffic; Robert E. Weech, and a rum-laden boat were seized off Fort Lauderdale, Fla, and the men there taken aboard a Coast Guard cutter. On the patrol boat Alderman led an attack on his captors and gained pos- session of the Government craft. Coast Guardsmen said that he was going to make them “walk the plank” in pirate style when a secret service man, Rob- ert E. Webster, led a counter offensive 1o retake the cutter. Webster and two Coast Guardsmen were killed in the | ensuing gun battle. Pleaded Self-Defense. Alderman pleaded self-defense, but was found guilty of murder by a jury in Federal Court here in January, 1928. Weech entered a plea of guilty to lesser charges and received a light sentence. Federal Judge Halstead L. Ritter, who pronounced the death sentence on Alderman, has issued an order barring all newspaper men from the scene of the_execution. 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