To Save The Rawlings Boys
Is Aim of Mafiy Petitioners —Prison Commission Received First Plea for Mercy Today.
Special to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga.^ May,10.—A petition calling for the commutation of the existing death sentence in the case of the celebrated Lowndes County prisoners, Milton and Jesso Rawlings, was filed with the State. Prison Commission this morning.
The petition came from J. A. .T. Henderson, of Ocilla, president of the Ocilla & Valdosta railroad, and contains the names of seventy of the most prominent business and professional men’s Irwin County.
It prays that the death sentence be commuted to life Imprisonment, Leonard Rawlings, the third brother, having already begun his life term in one of the penal institutions of the state.
It is announced that Attorney Cooper, who has defended the Rawlingses throughout the famous trial, will come to Atlanta next week with a monster petition praying for a commutation of the death sentence & life imprisonment When this petition reaches the ‘prison commission It will be considered along with that received today from Irwin county, and the case of the two unfortunate boys will be disposed of on its merits.