HEARD, Ezelle September 5, 191)
| "Aberdeen, Mississippi, 9-5-191l-"orkmen today erected
braces around the trap door of a scaffold to support the
unconscious form of Ezelle Heard, a negro, who was hanged
late today. When told yesterday that there was no chance
for a reprieve or pardon for his crime of killing W. 0. Cox
a white farmer, the negro fainted and remained unconscious,
After the negro had been carried in an unconscious condi-
tion to the scaffold he was supported by bhe braces until
the trap was sprung." JOURNAL, Atlanta, Gas, 9-6-191l (6/1
"Aberdeen, Mississippi, 9-5-191l-workmen today erected
HEARD, Ezelle September 5, 191)
braces around the trap door of a scaffold to support the
unconscious form of Ezelle Heard, a negro, who was hanged
late today. When told yesterday that there was no chance
for a reprieve or pardon for his crime of killing W. 0. Cox
a white farmer, the negro fainted and remained unconscious,
After the negro had been carried in an unconscious condi-
tion to the scaffold he was supported by bhe braces until
the trap was sprung." JOURNAL, Atlanta, Gae, 9-6-1911 (6/1
Ee
HEARD, Ezelle Boptonter’o moa
"Aberdeen, Mississippi, 9-5-191)-\orkmen today erected
braces around the trap door of a scaffold to support the
unconscious form of Ezelle Heard, a negro, who was hanged
late today.
After the negro had been carried in an unconscious condi-
tion to the scaffold he was supported by bhe braces until
the trap was sprung." JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga., 9-6-191L (6,
September 5, 191
fe = a opringe”"SOMMALG At tatay Ory 569A C6)
