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IT LIST MINUTE BT A REPRIEVEYoung White Men to Havel C Been Executed Today Get j Another ChanceGOV. CRAIG GRANTS EIGHT WEEKS' STAYFDoes So That Case May Go ^ Before The United States i Supreme Court On a Writ of Error. i(By Associated Press.) Ashehville, N. t\, Sept. 3.—Governor Craig, at tits home here this morning, granted a reprieve for eight weeks to Hardy Wiggins and Merritt, Miller, who were to liaye been electrocuted at 10:30 o’clock at the state prison in Raleigh.In a statement accompanying the reprieve the Governor said that attorneys for*the men had filed a petition with him asking for time to take thej*1J case before the supreme court of the !Ci United States on a writ of error. The! M attorneys contend that the prisoners jSi did not have a fair and impartial trial I ^ l i in that many of the jurors had formed ‘'{and expressed the opinion that the *■ J defendants were guilty, Wiggins and K Miller were convicted of murdering Phillip Phillips, in Graham County a year ago.Hour of Doom Had All But Arrived.Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 1.—All preparations hgd been made for the eler-trnfutiop rtf Wiggins and Miller when notice of Governor eCraig’s repriev was received this morning at the penitentiary forty-five minutes before the time set for the execution.Both Wiggins and Miller are white ! fT men. Wiggins, it was said, urged j ^ that the execution proceed, declar-1m 4ng, according to those present. I when told that a reprieve had been j granted, that he had been persecuted until he was tired of it. Miller, it | was said, merely expressed his thanks.ter Ail precedents were said to have 4:*1 been broken Wednesday ‘ when Wig-g I gins, under heavy guard, was taken . to a local Baptist church and im-cr 1°I mersed. Heretofore, when a con-I demned prisoner desired baptism it’; had been the custom to perform the * | rite in the penitentiary by sprinkling. ’’j Wiggins requested immersion and 1 this could not be done at the prison, i Permission was obtained from Gov-! ernor Craig to have the ceremony e! take place in a church. s!--
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Wilmington Dispatch
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Fri, Sep 01, 1916
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