Archived Shadows: True Crime Chronicles from Lowndes County’s Past
NEW EVIDENCE IN THE CASEWhat Lawyer Cooper Told the Prison Commission Further postponement has been granted in the Rawlings case at the request of Attorney John Cooper. The hearing for clemency, which was scheduled for next Saturday in Atlanta, has been delayed. (From Tuesday’s Daily) Attorney Cooper claims to have new evidence in the Rawlings […]
Continue ReadingRawlings Hearing is Deferred In a long distance telephone conversation yesterday, Chairman Turner, of the state prison commission, reached an agreement with Attorney John R. Cooper, whereby the hearing on behalf of the Rawlings’ has been deferred until early in June.
Continue ReadingRAWLINGS CASE IS POSTPONED. The Prison Commission Will Hear The Appeal Early In June. The hearing was to have been held tomorrow, but Attorney Cooper requested more time, so a special session will be held to give the final hearing to the case.(From Tuesday’s Daily.) In order to give the defendants’ counsel sufficient time to […]
Continue ReadingPLEADING 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 […]
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