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EXECUTIONS.P*ccITTWO DIE IN CHAIR THIS WEEKlt; B* Pr**M»PHII A DELPHI A. Miss.. May HGrady White, 38-year-old roadhouse5keeper, is scheduled to bo rloct.ro-1outre! at dawn tomorrow for the'murder of Sam McCunc vending ’machine agenh on Sept. 24. 1940.If there is no last, minute intervention—the supreme court has turned down the doomed man’s pleas and Governor Paul Johnson yesterday declared he must pay the penalty White will be the first white man in Mississippi to die in the electric chair.While has a wile, mother, and three sisters.Officials arranged to place the chair in the old Neshoba county jail two blocks from the home where White, born in Laurel but brought here at an early age, spent a number of his boyhood years.On April 3, 1939. White was sentenced in Meridian federal court to six months and a $1,000 fine for harboring Charley Chapman, no-: torious fugitive who shot his wayi: through officers seeking to close in j on him outside a roadhouse owned | by White four miles from Philadel-i phia the previous October.
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Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Wed, May 14, 1941
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