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manyRALEIGH UP);'—- A sharecropper whei beat his wife to death with a gun barrel while she prayed . for mercy in a cotton field had his death sentence commuted to life impi'ison.ment yesterday. ,When informed, his-life had been Spared, Charles Gales, 40, told Dr.C. H. Patrick, : chairman of the State Paroles Board, he was dis-apponted.Gov. Umstead . issued the commutation on the recommendation of the Paroles Board; The hoard was impressed by' Gale's “very low mentality’' arid said there was serious doubt as to whether he “is a responsible individual.’’ ,The record shows ^hat Gales, i si a ted to die tornorrow in the' gas chamber, had Served time on the roads for assaulting his wife about eight months before she was slain. Later he assaulted her again.On the day of the slaying, they fought a third time, when she re-. fused to leave te. cotton field and return to their house with him, he went to; the house himself and got a shotgun. He chased her down in the. field; told her to get “soul right with the Uord,” and beat her head in with the barrel in front of their children, . •The State Supreme Court upheldfed-,,.two 1S murder conviction and death714 sentence:The Paroles Board released findihgs by j^ychiatrists which shovvedGale as mentally weak and emo-tionally unstable since his child-aslt;£ hood, r n
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Robesonian
Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Thu, Jul 22, 1954
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