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SENTENCED TO DIE = VICTIM ALIVE,

"NEAR TRAGEDY: Three witnesses accuse Jim Scar=
lett, Fort Worth, Texas of killing Andy Lace-
field in a fight and dumping his body in river.
Scarlett is convicted and sentenced to die al=

though State does not present proof of dea the

On eve of execution, Lacefield is discovered
alive; he explains water revived him and he

didn't come forward because Scarlett had
beaten him," OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES, Oct.
1, 1937, page 73 "The Month Fifty Years Ago:
October, 18 ee

SENTENCED TO DIE = VICTIM ALIVE.

"NEAR TRAGEDY: Three witnesses accuse Jim Scar-
lett, Fort Worth, Texas of killing Andy Lace-
field in a fight and dumping his body in river.
Scarlett is convicted and sentenced to die al=
though State does not present proof of dea the

On eve of execution, Lacefield is discovered
alive; he explains water revived him and he

didn't come forward because Scarlett had
beaten him," OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES, Oct.
ae LOB is Bare 73 "The Month Fifty Years Ago:
October, 1887.

SENTENCED TO DIE = VICTIM ALIVE.
"NEAR TRAGEDY: Three witnesses accuse Jim Scar-
lett, Fort Worth, Texas of killing Andy Lace-
field in a fight and dumping his body in river.
Scarlett is convicted and sentenced to die al-
though State does not present proof of dea th.

eve of execution, Lacefield is discovered
alive; he explains water revived him and he
didn't come forward because Scarlett had
beaten him," OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES, Oct.
1, 1937, Page 473 "The Month Fifty Years Ago:
October, 1887.



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