Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
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 […]
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 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 ReadingWANTS PARDON FOR THE BOYSLawyer Cooper wants Rawlings Boys Given Freedom Dispatches from Atlanta to The Times this morning state that a petition for a pardon for Milton, Jesse, and Leonard Rawlings, convicted of the murder of the Carter children in this county four years ago, and who are serving life sentences in the penitentiary, […]
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 […]
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