Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
Bloody Fight is Averted Rawlings and Hickey Clashed in Prison Cell Tuesday Rawlings was reading his Bible when Hickey tried to stop him, finally applying a vile epithet, which Rawlings would not stand. The two prisoners had to be separated by others. There came near being a desperate encounter in the county jail last evening […]
Continue ReadingCOMFORTER WILL NOT COME.Rawlings Refuses to Believe There is Hope for Him.Ministers Called Upon Him Yesterday but he “Outraged” Them —Their Visit Inspired him to Write Out His Views on the Questions of Grace and Forgiveness of Sins.(From Wednesday’s Daily) J.G. Rawlings was visited in the county jail yesterday by Rev. J.P. Smith, of Madison […]
Continue ReadingUntil May the 4th Atlanta, Feb. 28—In order for their cases to be heard by the United States Supreme Court on April 2, Governor Terrell has granted a respite for J.G. Rawlings, his two sons, Jesse and Milton, and Alf Moore, a Black man accused alongside them of killing the Carter children. The new execution […]
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 […]
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