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LIFE FOB SLAVING TKHEEAfter l.on« I/kaI Battle, to Highest L Court in (he l and and to the | President. Man is lUnxcil.tlvFort Lauderdale. Fla.. Aug. 17.--While the first streak of dawn spread over the United States roast I guard base here. James T Alderman. 50 year old rum pirate was taken from his Jail cell to u scaffold erected in a metal airplane hangar and was hanged for the murder of two coast guardsmen. ,The trap was sprung at *1.04 a m.. j and 15 minutes later his body was removed from the death chamber, and will be delivered to Alderman's (lrelatives at Miami for burial. The c execution was shrouded in the ut- e most screcy. everyone being barren from the station grounds except Unofficial witnesses. ] PAlderman, one of the most color- 1 j ful rum runners ever to ply between ti the Bahamas and Florida was sen- (*i fenced to die for the murder of 8id- ' iuy 8anderlln and Victor Lamby. two roust guardsmen, during a gun battle on the high seas .n August, h 1927. Robert K Webster, a secret v service operative, was slain by the j, gunfire, hut Alderman was never tr.ei t.H (us il*M» ti ■Tin* execution today wrote llnis w t«» one of Florida’s longest and most w bitterly fought legal battles.. Alder-man's coiVisel having rtpjiealed ills case to flu* higher t court in the land to President Hoover, in vain.The grim-v c aged rum pirate of al the Otilf stream was believed to w have retained lo the mil he- stoical fl serenity of mein that he haws put up 8: since his public renunciation of u hlt; career of crime, which tulhwcd his sanguine battle wiiii coast tu.ird - m men off the l-'londu coast two yrtifi ba\t)agoKThe first rays of the rising sun i lt;inwere peeping qyer the upper stones of the jail when he was led from in his cell to the gloomy steel and iron wi airplane hangar located but u few blt;8te**s from the boat lunduig on which he stepped from a blood- m ‘•menred patrol bout after the buttle H with the guardsmen which ended th Uood morning. bovs. he greet-, his long career of crime. 1bed tile little group of spectators wr When lie was led out of the Jail. f‘ ile suofce iii even, precise tones and :»a walked with u steady step to an *» automobile that wailed a lew pacta away.— 11 t. •wlt; tu
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Burlington Daily Times
Burlington, North Carolina, US
Sat, Aug 17, 1929
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