Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
Newspaper clippings and articles about the Rawlings-Moore case of 1904.
Return Day for City CourtNumerous Suits Filed for the March Term The sheriff and deputies face a tight deadline of just three days to serve papers across the county. (From Tuesday’s Daily)Today marks return day for the city court, and a large number of suits are being filed. Most of these are suits on account […]
Continue ReadingDelegates Visited Rawlings Nine or ten of the delegates to the Cotton Growers Convention Thursday went up to the county jail to see J.G. Rawlings and his boys. They were accompanied by the sheriff. They spent about an hour in the jail and found the prisoners quite talkative. The elder Rawlings was in a good […]
Continue ReadingOUTSIDERS WORKING FOR BOYS Prominent Citizen of Irwin County Take Up Rawlings’ Case. An unofficial Request Made to Prison Commission to Save the Rawlings Boys from the Gallows Atlanta, Dec. 20—The prison commission has been asked to recommend commutation to life imprisonment for the two Rawlings boys, Milton and Jesse, who are sentenced to be […]
Continue ReadingLEONARD MUST RETURN HOME. That is What Lawyer Cooper’s Latest Move Means. Governor Terrell Acknowledges Service of Citations, Leading to Indefinite Delay in Executing Court Sentences Governor Terrell and Attorney General Hart have acknowledged the service of citations, which will carry the Rawlings murder cases to the Supreme Court of the United States under a […]
Continue ReadingYOUNG LEONARDGoes to the Convict Camp to Begin His Life Sentence The Pathetic Parting in the County Jail Yesterday—The Condemned Father of the Young Man Gave Him a Parting Injunction in Regard to Obedience to Those in Authority at the Camps—Mrs. Rawlings Knew of the Plot to Kill Carter and Wife When She Heard of […]
Continue ReadingWants His Boys TO HANG TOOJ. G. Rawlings Says He Does Not Want Petition Signed for Them His wife and daughters were at the jail with him until after ten o’clock last night. A sharp colloquy occurred between him and Sheriff Passmore. Objections were made to the story of the Carter killings. There was another […]
Continue ReadingRAWLINGS WILL TELL TRUTH, He Wants the Court to Give Him Time for a Statement. He says That, If Given an Opportunity, he Wants to Tell all That he Knows When the Court Passess Sentence Upon him again, Thinks all are Doomed. J.G. Rawlings has sent word to Judge Mitchell asking him to give him […]
Continue ReadingRawlings Denies he “Cussed.” At the county jail yesterday afternoon J.G. Rawlings said that he had not been trying to play crazy but that he had acted badly, he knew. He said that he felt that the condition under which he was living justified him in getting in a bad humor occasionally, though he wanted […]
Continue ReadingRAWLINGS CASE AFFIRMED. Supreme Court Sustains Judge Mirchell in Rawlings’ Cases, but Reverses in Frank Turner’s Case. Atlanta, Georgia, November 8.—The Supreme Court has affirmed the decisions in all of the Rawlings cases but reversed the decision in the case against Frank Turner, charged with accessory before the fact to the murder of W. L. […]
Continue ReadingRawlings Decision Next Week. A telegram from Atlanta states that the supreme court will hand down decisions in about fifty important cases next Tuesday and it is expected that the Rawlings case will be among the number.The Times hopes to be able to print the full decision and has asked the clerk of the supreme […]
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