LOWNDES COUNTY (COLUMBUS), MISSISSIPPI EXECUTIONS:
" eeehrom memory, a negro was hanged in the late 1920's
for the mrder of a taxi driver, The scaffold was
erected in the courthouse yard and the public viewed
it, Another black was electrocuted in the portable
electric ohair here. He was convicted of the mrder
of a Lowndes County cpuple and burying them in a
near-by field, This was the 1930'Seee." —
Letter datedxXax& on 2-6-1978 from Mrs, Eva Byrd
Hudson, Curator, Lowndes County Public Library System,
Columbus, Misse 39701
LOWNDES COUNTY (COLUMBUS), MISSISSIPPI EXECUTIONS:
"..e.From memory, a negro was hanged in the late 1920'¢g
for the mrder of a taxi driver. The scaffold was
erected in the courthouse yard and the public viewed
it. Another black was electrocuted in the portable
electric bhair heree He was convicted of the murder
of a Lowndes County cpuple and burying them in a
near-by field, This was the 1930'Seee."
Letter datedxax& on 2-6-1978 from Mrs, Eva Byrd
Hudson, Curator, Lowndes County Public Library System,
Columbus, Misse 39701
LOWNDES COUNTY (COLUMBUS), MISSISSIPPI EXECUTIONS:
",,..From menory, a negro was hanged in the late 1920'g
for the mrder of a taxi driver. The scaffold was
erected in the courthouse yard and the public viewed
it. Another black was electrocuted in the portable
electric bhair here, He was convicted of the mrder
of @ Lowndes County epuple and burying then in a
near-by field, This was the 1930'Seee.
Letter datedxaxf on 2-6-1978 from Mrs, Eva Byr
ludson, Curator, Lowndes County Public Library System,
Columbus, Miss. 39701
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