Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
PAROLE GRANTED TO LAST OF MEN CONVICTED OF CHILDREN’S MURDER Milton Rawlins, Serving Sentence for Murder of Carter Children, is Paroled by Governor Hardwick Atlanta, Ga., June 26.—Governor Thomas W. Hardwick today paroled Milton Rawlins, the last of five men convicted in the murder of the Carter children in Lowndes County some years ago. Milton, […]
Continue ReadingTo Save The Rawlings Boys Is Aim of Mafiy Petitioners —Prison Commission Received First Plea for Mercy Today. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga.^ May,10.—A petition calling for the commutation of the existing death sentence in the case of the celebrated Lowndes County prisoners, Milton and Jesso Rawlings, was filed with the State. Prison Commission […]
Continue Reading“YOU CAN SIN UNTO DEATH, AND FOR SUCH THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS” BY REV. J. G. RAWLINGS, NOW SENTENCED TO DEATH.The Author of the Following Article on the Bible and Its Teachings on the Subject of Sin Will Be Hanged at Valdosta, Tuesday, December 4. Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 22.—Some newspapers have accused me of seeking […]
Continue ReadingWANTS TO HANG: Murderer Rawlings of Georgia Asks the Governor Not to Suspend Sentence He Begs the Governor Not to Pay Any Attention to Silly Appeals for His Reprieve, But Let Him Be Executed At Once From his cell in a Georgia jail, a condemned murderer is sending forth appeals to stop all efforts to […]
Continue ReadingTo Save The Rawlings Boys Is Aim of Mafiy Petitioners —Prison Commission Received First Plea for Mercy Today. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga.^ May,10.—A petition calling for the commutation of the existing death sentence in the case of the celebrated Lowndes County prisoners, Milton and Jesso Rawlings, was filed with the State. Prison Commission […]
Continue ReadingMeasured up to the Standard. In handling the Rawlings case and execution, as well as with its reports of the Methodist conference, the Valdosta Times measured up to the full standard of what a newspaper should be— Tifton Gazette.
Continue ReadingBloody 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 ReadingSALES OF SEA ISLAND COTTONSeveral Farmers Make Sales of Their Crop for the Year The Price is Some Better Than Has Been Ruling of Late-The Crop From the Rawlings Place Was Sold Yesterday-About Sixty Bales Sold Altogether. There is a stronger feeling in the sea island cotton market, and the demand is much more active […]
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