"What plea will you enter?"
WILL NOT PLEAD GUILTY.
"Oh, that, of course, will be for my attorney to decide, but it will certainly be not guilty."
When Walling was seen, he appeared to be in much better spirits than Jackson. He was lying on his cot, deeply interested in the novel which he has been reading for the past few days. He arose and pleasantly greeted his visitor. When asked as to how he liked his quarters he replied:
"Oh, I suppose I have no kick coming, although they are not as good as those across the river."
"What plea will you enter next Monday?"
"Not guilty, of course. What other plea could I make. I tell you that I am not guilty of that murder and I fully expect to be cleared."
Arraigned in Kentucky Court Monday, March, 23., the murderers, spent the first hour outside the prison walls since the transfer to Kentucky. That hour was spent in appearing in the Circuit Court room of Campbell County for the purpose of entering their plea to the charge of murder placed against them by the Kentucky authorities.
In the court-room by 9:30 o'clock the three hundred privileged ones who had obtained tickets of admission had taken their seats, and every seat was taken excepting the four on the jury gallery reserved for the prisoners and their jail attendants. There were not more than twenty women among the spectators.
Within the iron-rail-bound quadrangle in front of the Judge's desk thirty or forty members of the Campbell County bar sat, while ranged behind them and just within the railing was a row of tables for the reporters and artists.