COLE, Carl Leonard and PORTER, Willie Lee
—Gole,a19-vear-old_black-employee—of the —Coca—Cola Bottling Plant—in—
Jackson, Tenn., and his friend Porter, a 2l<vear-old formar inmate in
a Tennessee Reformatory, robbed the plant on the night of “Aug. 9, I9K0,
-and-bludgeonedto-death the 57-year-old _night-watchman, US Waleahe
Vernon, as he punched a time clock in an open garage. Grant was found:
in a dying condition early the next morning by a makexmax Loca Lola
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other. Both were convicted and sentenced to death and they were elec-
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COLE, Carl Leonard and PORTER, Willie Lee
Cole, a I9-year-old black-empleyee—of the Coca Cola Bottling Plant—in
Jackson, Tenn., and his frie nd Porter, a 21-year-old formar “inmate in
a Tennessee Reformatory, robbed the plant on the night of Aug. 9, 190,
mnd—piade: j-+o-death—the 57-year-old nicht watchman, (OL USL ela wate
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