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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1925
Page
5
A tense scene unfolds as a mysterious man calling the narrator as “Mother” and claiming to be family member faces a swift grip from Lee Chow in a thicket. He bond, shows fear, and negotiates a deal offering proof of his claimed relation in exchange for fifty dollars weekly and potential aid.
Read of notable births and deaths from 1737 to 1853 including Thomas Paine Nathaniel Wyeth John L Taylor Benjamin Potts William McKinley and Henry Clay. Also notes Napoleon III Eugenie de Montijo marriage and a planting tip for sweet peas from Monroe Seed Co. 107 North Grand.
Jackson Mississippi reports Charles Baker one of nine convicts freed from the state penitentiary farm last July has been captured and is held at Mount Pleasant Texas. Baker was sentenced in 1923 to seven years for burglary from Coahoma County. With his capture three of the escaped convicts are now in custody.
Willie Jones and Gervais Bloodworth walk in custody of Sheriff R A McGriffith through the jail cages in Butler Georgia as a looming Friday execution date nears. The incident is reported by I N S with emphasis on the grim procedure and local conditions surrounding the case.
Two youths, hardly more than children, were walked to the courthouse in Griffin Georgia where Judge W J H Searcy sentenced them to hang on hoodoo day for the December 3 1928 murder and robbery of Howard F Underwood. Desperate appeals failed as injunctions and technicalities were dismissed.
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