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Greel.v Phillips To Ho Hanlt;**ed.TIimv is 1,ir11lt;* i banco, I (. Soetns, tor NVizrn Munlorer4to Escape Ci 111 lows.Greely Phillips, the negro mur-1 der of May I.asseter, a negro wo man, will be hanged on [an. 27th, unless his sentence is commuted v by Governor Tyrrell. The Supreme Court having refused to re verse the decision ot the lowei• I Court in this cast, Phillips has no1 h pe of escaping the gallows cx cept through executive clemency. 1 A. II. Freeman, Esq., Phillips’attorney, lias been before the Mate Pardon Hoard and the Governor with his client's case, asking that the sentence be commuted1 to i m prison 111 e 11 t for life.1 The Panloti Hoard refused Col.• I Freeman’s petition, and it now s seems that there is no hope forthe negro. ,The execution ol Phillips willbo strictly private. It will be thetilth legal hanging to occur in Coweta county since its organization
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Newnan Weekly News
Newnan, Georgia, US
Wed, Jan 18, 1905
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