PLEADING FOR THE BOYS
A Big Petition for Mercy for the Younger Rawlingses.
Macon, Ga., May 17—J.J. Powers, father of Mrs. J.G. Rawlings and grandfather of Milton and Jessie Rawlings, came here from Coffee county, with a petition signed by over 600 citizens of Coffee, Berrien and Lowndes counties, which will be presented to the Prison Commission by Attorney John R. Cooper.
In his plea for a commutation of the death sentences of Milton and Jesse Rawlings to life imprisonment at the hearing in June the grandfather has made a most pathetic plea for the lives of the two boys.
His petition which was turned over to Attorney Cooper this afternoon, was signed by many prominent citizens.