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NEGRO WILL BE ELECTROCUTEDWhen Governor Martin Signs New Death Warrant This Week.TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 2. (API—One of the first duties toconfront Governor Martin with advent of the new year will be thesigning of the death ^arrant which will send Fortune Ferguson, negro, to the electric chair.Ferguson, convicted in Alachua xmnty for an attack upon a young tvhite girl, was the first negro to be sentenced to die in the lectric chair, jut he was not the first to be elec-rocuted.Ferguson escaped the electric ;hair by a margin hardly known to myone except in hairbreadth fic-ion. As he sat back for the volts o be sent through his body an4Page Five Section Oneg mm —i ■ -■ ■ ■■■- , .....—■ ■ jtjj order was received from the circuit ! judge granting him a temporary relt;| prieve, pending an appeal to thepreme Court. i|jThe stay of execution for Fergson was the result, it was learne here, of an error in the judge’s prlt;* nouncement, which was meant if* *send the negro to eternity. Instead, of the words: “I hereby sentence you to die by electricity, »h# judge was quoted as having saldjjk I hereby sentence you to be ele trocuted. ||. JjEFerguson’s conviction was ds)* clared to have been the quickest lt;.1* record in Alachua county, if not in -the state. He was sentenced to die, after a lapse of not over one da$ following commission of the crimOFFER BEACH LOTS -Ocean View, an attractive piece of gulf front property comprising 27 lots of 50 foot width and the annual depth of from 180 to SOS feet, is offered by the Kagay lteal lt;v company. Ocean View is just; below Point of ltocks on. b.'»?sia Key. Each lt si going on ihemarket for $5000 apiece.
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Sarasota Herald
Sarasota, Florida, US
Sun, Jan 03, 1926
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