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 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 ReadingTHE JOURNAL STILL WILD. The wild man of the Atlanta Journal is trying to convince the public that he was not joking in his appeal for a complete pardon for the Rawlings boys. Several articles on the subject last week were followed up by a double-column editorial on Sunday. The Journal wants Governor Terrell and […]
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 ReadingCARTER DREW HIS GUN J.G. Rawlings’ Old Enemy had a Row in This City Yesterday. W.L. Carter who has received a great deal in notoriety during the last year or so on the account of his quarrels with J.G. Rawlings, and the subsequent murder of his two children, for which Rawlings and his two sons […]
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 ReadingRAWLINGS TO GET A REPRIEVE It Begins to Look Like There Will Be Another Delay Remittitur from the U.S. Supreme Court Will Bring the Case Back to the Lower Court and the Men Will Have to be Sentenced Again — Will Necessitate a Delay (From Thursday’s Daily) There is a bare probability that there will […]
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 […]
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