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THE ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD, St. Augustine, Fla., 9-2)-1962
Tage-o0 (2) 3292 Lie. G0 (2h 329° on both,- Se eee
___.._From Vandiver-Radelet_pa pers3.__They had_ been lockéd up_
fn Flat-top for three months & were. being fed bed &
water and could not bathe, Terrible heat, rash, rem-.—
ek te a eee omen t_states that Olson
was Gay and had propositioned him, It also states
that Smith had bad background with father teaching him
to steal, File two (clemency papers, I assume, cone —
tains many names (about 1700) on petition to commute
Smith, a letter from him and other clemency letters; |
—CLemene y-papers, file two on Leach _says_much clemency.
material, sworn statements % letters from priest,
THE ST, AUGUSTINE RECORD, St. Augustine, Fia., hat 4.0
732-80 (2) 329¢ L132 s0 (2) 329 on-both,-
From Vandiver-Radelet papers; They had been locked. up
in Flat-top for three months é& were being fed bed &
water and could not bathe, Terrible heat; rash, rem-.
——--enants—-of-tear—ga ‘Smith—card it—_states that Olson
was Gay and had propositioned him, It also states
that Smith had bad background with father teaching him
_____to steal, File-two (clemency papers, I assume, cone —
tains many names (about 1700) on petition to commute
Smith, a letter from him and other clemency eg
i—Gremeney paper on_Leach_says_much clemency —
material, sworn statements & letters from priest,
THE ST, AUGUSTINE RECORD, St. Augustine, Fla,, 9-24-1962
132 SO (2) 3293 132-80 (2) 329 on both. =
From Vandiver-Radelet papers; They had been locked up
in Flat-top for three months & were being fed bed &
ae and could not bathe. Terrible heaty rash, rem.
na dit_stefes that Olson
and had Sr opocitione’ him, It also states
that Seieh aed bed background with father teaching him
to steel, Filet: y_paper: sum. ons.
tains many names eae 1700) on petition to commute
aes a letter from him and other clemency letters;
“papers, file two on Leach says much clemency
Gaver sworn statements * letters from priest.
Bt gertiney Fhe, 9eahl962
L£ACH, William Harl and SMITH, Joe
Leachya 22-year-old white native of Knoxville, Tenn., was serving a
two year sentence at the Florida State Prison for breaking and en-
terning, while Smith, a 21-year-old white native of St. Augustine
was serving a six month sentence in the BRAHR same penitentiary for
entering a St. Augustine truck for the purpose of stealing beer,
They were cell-mates in the punishment block where they had been
sent for an infraction of prison rules and theydecided that one
way in which they might become “big men" at the prison was by
kklling someone. They decided that they would kill the next man
assigned to their cell. In July, 1959, Duke D. Olsen, 22-years~
old, and sentenced to two years from Miami for narcotics was
placed in their cell, Neither Leach nor Smith had every seen BYE
Olsen before, but the first night, they throttled him with a hand-
kerchief and then slit his throat with a spoon,nickiockkeyxtent the
Miaxpa handle of which they had sharpened into a knife. Both were
convicted and sentenced to dea th and when the U. S, Supreme Court
popuees fo review their case, they were both electrocuted on Sept.
2 Uy 196k.
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LEACH, William Earl and SMITH, Joe
leachsa 22-year-old white native of Knoxville, Tenn., was serving a
two year sentence at the Florida State Prison for breaking and en-
terning, while Smith, a 21-year-old white native of St. Augustine
was serving a six month sentence in the SREB same penitentiary for
entering a St. Augustine truck for the purpose of stealing beer.
They were cell-mates in the punishment block where they had been
sent for an infraction of prison rules and theydecided that one
way in which they might become "big men" at the prison was by
kklling someone. They decided that they would kill the next man
assigned to their cell, In July, 1959, Duke D, Olsen, 22-years-
old, and sentenced to two years from Miami. for narcotics was
placed in their cell, Neither Leach nor Smith had everx seen B48
Olsen before, but the first night, they throttled him with a hand-
kerchief and then slit his throat with a spoon sxhkelxkkeydont the
xiaxpa handle of which they had sharpened into a knife. Both were
convicted and sentenced to dea th and when the U. S. Supreme Court
Beaty ae review their case, they were both electrocuted on Sept.
2 hy 196k.
IZACH, William Earl and SMITH, Joe
22-year-old white native of Knoxville, Tenn,, was serving a
two year sentence at the Florida State Prison for breaking and en-
terning, while Smith, a 2l-year-old white native of St. Augustine
was serving a six month sentence in the KKB sane penitentiary for
entering a St, Augustine truck for the purpose of stealing beer.
They were cell-mates in the punishment block where they had been
sent for an infraction of prison rules and theydecided that one
way in which they might become "big men" at the prison was by
kklling someone. They decided that they would kill the next man
assigned to their cell, In July, 1959, Duke D, Olsen, 22-years~
old, and sentenced to two years from Miami. for narcotics was
placed in their cell, Neither Leach nor Smith had everx seen 5X5
Olsen before, but the first night, they throttled him with a hand~
th a spoon,
the
Both were
th and when the U. S, Supreme Court
pofused 4° review their case, they were both electrocuted on Sept,
2h, 196.
