Agitation Rises Over First Degree Murder Law Reforms
Raleigh dispatch reports rising agitation over North Carolina first degree murder statutes after three White men were executed for the Barnes bank hold up and murder. The case spurs discussion of replacing the current four life-for-one rule with automatic life imprisonment on guilty verdicts with mercy recommendations as practiced in Tennessee.
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Green
Lester
Black
Stefanoff
Barnes
Edwin M. Gill
Shringhaus
Lester Green
Stefanoffi
Tennessee
North Carolina
Death row mercy debate shades future of capital punishment
The report discusses juries finding Lester Green and Black guilty with mercy recommendations while judges impose death sentences. It notes potential law changes that could convert mercy recommendations into life terms and mentions ongoing efforts to abolish capital punishment. Black showed strain before execution bringing total NC electric chair executions to 148 with 18 on death row. Rufus Satterfield is slated for execution next week for murder.
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Lester Green
R. Eb, Black
Young Green
Black
General Assembly
North Carolina
State Supreme Court
Rufus Satterfield, White
Goldsboro
Herbert Grice
Trio of Executions Marks North Carolina Crime Case
The article recounts the three electrocutions in North Carolina, detailing the condemned men Black and the Green brothers, their backgrounds, last words, and the witnesses present. It notes Black’s 5 minute 12 second execution, the two Greens’ two shocks and shorter duration, and mentions family ties and statements made before death.
Executions Reported in Murder and Robbery Case
Stefanoff was executed for his role in the Barnes murder and an attempted bank robbery. The elder Green Lester Green and Black faced the electric chair with no signs of nervousness. Lester suffered leg burns from the shocks as attendants worked to remove him after ten minutes.
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Bascom G
Lester Green
R. E B. Black
T. C. Barnes
Taylorsville
Stefanoff
Barnes
Greens
Black
Green
Lester
Warden Honeycutt
Yugoslavia Denies Cross Border Troop Incursion
Yugoslavia's foreign ministry rejected claims that troops crossed into Hungary and denied mistreatment or illegality in deporting Hungarians. Officials cited 27,000 of 400,000 Hungarians in the Slav kingdom who did not renounce allegiance, saying expulsions aimed to prevent agitation for treaty revisions restoring territory.
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Peet
League
Hungary
Foreign Office
United States accused of planning to expand navy
The speech contains nothing new according to critics. It is claimed that Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, says the United States will build five ships to Japan’s three, implying a naval build-up rather than a race.
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Vinson
Carl Vinson
American House Naval Affairs Committee
United States
Japan
Reynolds Will Case Book Reveals Wealth and Romance
Baltimore trustees protest to set form of a 158 page book containing wills of R J Reynolds and Katherine Johnston, deeds, court decrees, divorce data, marriage certificate, and alleged will. The volume outlines a legal history of the Reynolds wealth and tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Reynolds
Katherine
Johnston
Forsyth Court
Z. Smith
Reynols
Anne Cannon Reynolds
Smith Reynolds
Elizabeth Holman
Reynolds
Ministers Plead on Death Row as Bank Robbery Ends
A. Butler and Raleigh ministers recount a last appeal for mercy as Black admits whisky led to the fatal bank robbery plan. He seeks leniency for his three children by placing them in an orphanage and blames laws and Governor Ehringhaus’s constraints for his fate. The trio were executed for the Taylorsville bank cashier murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Butler
Black
Forest G. Feeser
Ehringhaus
Raleigh
President outlines unified recovery plan with potential $4 billion
President Roosevelt, recovering health after a southern sojourn, works on a unified recovery effort likely to seek at least 4 billion dollars from Congress. The plan would create jobs for those on relief, coordinate spending into one broad program, and aim to combine relief, land and water conservation, public works, roads, and other projects under central guidance. Hopkins signaled about 4 million employable people on relief, and a rural program could place 1 million families into farming or industrial communities without extra government cost.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Adotus
South
Congress
Harry L. Hopkins
Ickes
Public Works
Warm Springs
Hopkins
Robbers slain by Negro watchman at Moyock store
At Snap Poyner's Moyock store an unidentified white man was killed by H J Jackson, a colored night watchman, after the raiders forced entry. The two accomplices escaped in a car. a county-wide search was launched. An inquest was held with a verdict pending.
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Moyock
Snap Poyner’s
E¢Arly
Poyner’s
George Bright
H. J. Jackson
Jackson
W. B. Woodhouse
Poplar Branch
Chicago dairy market notes and porters cooperative honor
Chicago December 17 market notes show butter prices steady with various grade ranges and volume details for extras firsts and standards. Eggs sold at unchanged prices with no egg sales recorded. A Copenhagen porters cooperative union, charging a small flat fee, is noted for returning overpayments.
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Chicago
Copenhagen
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