Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
Newspaper clippings and articles about the Rawlings-Moore case of 1904.
RAWLINGS FACES COOPER. Judge Mitchell Signed the Bill of Exceptions Today. The Case Now Goes to the Supreme Court on Extraordinary Motion Cooper Says He Is More Confident Than Ever That the Boys Will Not Hang (From Wednesday’s Daily) Attorney John R. Cooper came down from Macon yesterday to consult with J.G. Rawlings about his […]
Continue ReadingRawlings Hearing is Deferred In a long distance telephone conversation yesterday, Chairman Turner, of the state prison commission, reached an agreement with Attorney John R. Cooper, whereby the hearing on behalf of the Rawlings’ has been deferred until early in June.
Continue ReadingRAWLINGS CASE IS POSTPONED. The Prison Commission Will Hear The Appeal Early In June. The hearing was to have been held tomorrow, but Attorney Cooper requested more time, so a special session will be held to give the final hearing to the case.(From Tuesday’s Daily.) In order to give the defendants’ counsel sufficient time to […]
Continue ReadingPLEADING 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 […]
Continue ReadingPetition Presented to Commission for Jesse and Milton Rawlings.Atlanta Ga., May 10— A petition for the commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment for Jesse and Milton Rawlings was filed with the Prison Commission this morning. It came from Hon. J.A.J. Henderson, of Ocilla, President of the Ocilla & Valdosta railroad, and contained seventy-five […]
Continue ReadingDATE OF HANGING NOT FIXED.But It Is Expected That June 8 Will be the Day.The Respites Will Extend the Day of Execution Beyond the Next Session of the Superior Court, When Judge Mitchell Will Have to Read Death Sentence for Them Again. FIGHTS GULLS FOR HIS LIFETerrible Battle With Birds by a Boy Marooned on […]
Continue ReadingATLANTA NEWS BRIEFThe Happenings of the Day by a Times Reporter. Governor Terrell Receives a Postal Card from J.G. Rawlings Asking to be Allowed to Hang Next Friday—Children Stricken With Meningitis and Both are Dead. Atlanta, May 1—Although Governor Terrell yesterday received a postcard from J.G. Rawlings asking that he be allowed to hang Friday, […]
Continue ReadingJUNE 8TH IS THE DAY FIXED.Governor Terrell Signs Another Respite for Rawlings. Governor Terrell yesterday issued respites to June 8 for J.G. Rawlings, his two sons, Milton and Jesse, and the Negro, Alf Moore, all under sentence of death Friday at Valdosta for the murder of the Carter children. This date was arrived at after […]
Continue ReadingRAWLINGS TO GET A REPRIEVE It Begins to Look Like There Will Be Another Delay Remittitur from the U.S. Supreme Court Will Bring the Case Back to the Lower Court and the Men Will Have to be Sentenced Again — Will Necessitate a Delay (From Thursday’s Daily) There is a bare probability that there will […]
Continue ReadingSupreme Court Justices Make Clear Decision in Rawlings Case The Ruling in the Rawlings Case Is One of Wide Importance, Holding That the Exclusion of Names of Professional Men from Jury Box Is Not Unconstitutional (From Tuesday’s Daily) In delivering the opinion of the court in the Rawlings case and explaining the reasons for it, […]
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