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CHILD CHIT CD 10 PEN WITH MOTHERGa.. Aug. 20.—Tne prisoncommission has decided that when Mrs. Sylvia Faulkner Hawkins, of Gainesville, Is carried to the fpenl-tentlary to begin a life term for killing her husband, her three-year-old son must remain behind. He may have to enter an orphan asylum unless «ome of his klaspeople takecharge of him.This is the first time in a number of years that such a question in regard to a white child has arisen. Sometimes very young babies are allowed to remain with their mothers until some arrangement can be made for them and for years a colored woman was regularly employed to take charge of all young colored children.Bartow Cantrell and Jim Cantrell have been sentenced to hang for the murder of Hawkins, while his wife was given a life term.
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Thomasville Times Enterprise Semi Weekly Edition
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Tue, Sep 02, 1913
Page 4
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