Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
RAWLINGS TALKS OF SENTENCE. He Does Not Like Fixing the Day Before Alf Moore’s He Says That It Is a Scheme to Prevent the Negro from Confessing on the Gallows and Clearing the Boys—He Says Wrong Has Been Done and Other Wrongs Are Done to Cover It Up (From Tuesday’s Daily) The sentencing of the […]
Continue ReadingNO HANGING HERE TOMORROW Governor Respites Alf Moore and J.G. Rawlings Again Rawlings’ case is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the negro is said to be a material witness, so he is respited until the 5th day of October. (From Thursday’s Daily) Governor Terrell, acting upon the advice of Attorney General […]
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 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 Reading