James Jackson, DC, 1920 March 2

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JACKSON, James Henry

2f/-year-cld black man, hanged, District of Columbia Jail,
on March 2, 1920, for the mrder of Lillian Hood with a

revolver on—Feby3, 1919

"Washington, F be ll, 1920. = President Wilson today 1,3-
fused to commute the death sentence of James Henry Jack-
pon, the negro who shot and fatally wounded Miss Lillian
Hood, a young war worker, from Greenville, Tenn., on Jane
2h, 1919, and he will be hanged at the district jail on
March 2, The negro's execution was set for this week but
Chief Justice McCoy granted a two weeks postponement as is

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JACKSON, James Henry

a7-year-cld black man, hanged, District of Columbia Jail,
on March 2, 1920, for the mrder of Lillian Hood with a

revolver on—Feby3, 1949

"Washington, F be 1h, 1920. - President Wilson today l13-
fused to commute the death sentence of James Henry Jack-
won, the negro who shot and fatally wounded Miss Lillian
Hood, a young war worker, from Greenville, Tenney on Jane
2h, 1919, and he will be hanged at the district jail on
March 2. The negro's execution was set for this week but
Chief Justice McCoy granted a two weeks postponement as is

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JACKSON, James Henry

27-year-old black man, hanged, District of Columbia Jail,
on March 2, 1920, for the mrder of Lillian Hood with a
revolver onFeby—2-1929-

"Washington, Fb. lly 1920. = President Wilson today 13-
fused to commte the death sentence of James Henry Jack-
gon, the negro who shot and fatally wounded Miss Lillian

Hood, a young war worker, from Greenville, Tenn., on Jans
2h, 1919, and he will be hanged at the district jail on
March 2, The negro's execution was set for this week but
Chief Justice McCoy granted a two weeks postponement as is
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