RAWLINGS 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 perfect the details of the appeal for executive clemency, the cases of J. G. Rawlings and his two sons, Jesse and Milton, charged with the murder of the two Carter children in Lowndes County, will not be taken up by the state pardon board until the first part of June.
It was thought that the plea for commutation of the sentences of the condemned men to life imprisonment would be heard at the May meeting of the board, but it has been finally decided to dispose of the cases at the next regular meeting.
Owing to the fact that the Rawlings men have been only respited until June 8th, it is probable that a special session of the board will be called. Following the refusal of the United States Supreme Court to grant a new trial to Rawlings and his sons, the governor respited the men until June 8th, as some time would be required for the mandate of the federal court to be received by the state supreme court and the remittitur forwarded to the superior court of Lowndes County.
Wanted Rawlings’ Story
It is said that J. G. Rawlings yesterday received twenty-five dollars from a newspaper up north, asking him to write out a full story of the Carter killing and why he wanted to be hanged. The money was sent to the Citizens Bank here to be turned over to Rawlings as soon as he performed his part of the contract. He wrote the letter yesterday, but it is said that it was so abusive of the sheriff and prosecuting attorneys that the sheriff told him he could not let the letter be sent. The sheriff does not think that any good can be accomplished by such a letter as Rawlings wrote, so he declined to let it be mailed. The letter covered about eight pages of pretty fine writing, and it is said that he was very severe in his references to nearly all of the parties connected with the case.