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At the time of conviction and sentence the
prisoner showed no particular excitement, and
subsequently in the jail he talked about the
matter dispassionately and fearlessly. He claim-
ed that instead of abducting the girl he had won
her away by love. Pilar was only about 27 years
of age, rather short of stature, but fairly good
looking, and by no means stupid. The shape
of his head indicated a preponderance of animal
nature, and one could easily tell that the mental
faculties were not likely to be greatly excited
by the prospect of disgrace and death, and that
physical fear would not come unless at the
last moment. He joked with the other prisoners,
said he would return in spirit to see them hung,
remarked that as a man was not born to live
always he had as well die one day as another.
He jocularly said he wanted to “go to hell on
a black horse.” Early this week he gave up a