Otto Clear, Fritz Lewis, 1924 September 12

State Prison for safekeeping until they were returned to Caroline
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a jury trial and pleaded guilty, After they had been sentenced to
die, they were returned to the State Prison and, as there was no
appeal, they were electrocuted there on Sept. 12, 192, one month
and thirteen days after their crime,

RICHMOND TIMES ,-DISPATCH, August l, Neosat 8, Sept. 12, Sept. 13,
192h.

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began one hour after the grand jury had indicted them. Both waived
a jury trial and pleaded guilty. After they had been sentenced to
die, they were returned to the State Prison and, as there was no
appeal, they were electrocuted there on Sept, 12, 192, one month
and thirteen days after their crime,

RICHMOND TIMES,=DISPATCH, August 1, August 8, Sept. 12, Sect. 13,
192h.

State Prison for safekeeping until they were returned to Caroline
County

OX MAONAATMALAKHAK on, August 7 for their trial which|
began one hour after the grand jury had indicted them. Both waived
a jury trial and pleaded guilty, After they had been sentenced to
die, they. were returned to the State Prison and, as there was no
appeal, they were electrocuted there on Sept, 12, 192l, one month
and thirteen days after their crime,

RICHMOND TIMES,-DISPATCH, August 1, August 8, Sept. 12, Set. 13,

192.

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Clear, 18=years-old, and Lewis, 17-year-old, were black youths who
lived at Panola, Caroline Co,, Va, They had long heard rumors that
68-year-old Thomas R, Campbell, a white farmer who lived alone, kept
a large sum of money in his house and for over a month they laid
plans to rob him and burn his house to conceal the crime, On the
night of July 30, 1924, around eight o'clock, they went to Campbell's
house, armed with a rifle and a pistol, and forced entry, demanding
that he give then his money, He gave them 50¢, explaining that was
all that MAK¥XMAH he had, and they then beat and tortured him before
shooting him and placing him on the bed which they set on fire, Af-

ter they had fled, Campbell managed to drag his burned body from the
house and struggled through a swamp to the home of a negro farmer who
lived nearby. A physician was summoned but Campbell died the next
day and the doctor subsequently testified that the gunshot wound had
not killed him but that he had died as a result of shock induced by
his burns. After leaving Campbell's residence, Clear and Lewis
caught an R, F, & P, freight train which was stopped at Rixby for a
search h

were captured shortly atvervarde:, Both made arconfeseteR th SRY fhe

each sought to implicate the other as the actual instigator of the
crime, Becaectee the threat of alynching, they were taken to the

CLEAR, Otto and LEWIS, Fritz Ye /2- 19229

Clear, 18=years-old, and Lewis, 17-year-old, were black youths who
lived at Panola, Caroline Co,, Va, They had long heard rumors that
68-year-old Thomas R, Campbell, a white farmer who lived alone, kept
a large sum of money in his house and for over a month they laid
plans to rob him and burn his house to conceal the crime, On the
night of July 30, 192), around eight o'clock, they went to Campbell's
house, armed with a rifle and a,pistol, and forced entry, demanding
that he give them his money, He gave them 50¢ » explaining that was
all that MM¥XMAH he had, and they then beat and tortured him before
shooting him and placing him on the bed which they set on fire. Af-
ter they had fled, Campbell managed to drag his burned body from the
house and struggled through a swamp to the home of a negro farmer who
lived nearby. A physician was summoned but Campbell died the next
day and the doctor subsequently testified that the gunshot wound had
not killed him but that he had died as a result of shock induced by
his burns, After leaving Campbell's residence, Clear and Lewis
caught an R, F, & P, freight train which was stopped at Rixby for a
search,

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each sought to licate the other as the actual instigator of the
crime, Soe eeotet the threat of alynching, they were taken to the

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all that S0092000l he had, and they then best ahd tortured him before
shooting him and placing him on the bed which they set on fire. Af=

ter they had fled, Campbell managed to drag his burned body fron the
house and struggled through a swam to the home of a negro farmer who
lived nearby. A physician was summoned but Campbell died the next
day and the doctor subsequently testified that the gunshot wound had
not killed him but that he had died as a result of shock induced by
his burns, After leaving Campbell's residence, Clear and Lewis
caught an R, F, & P, freight train which was stopped at Rixby for a

search, They leaped from the + a

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