BROWN, Governor
(Don't know whether hanged or not)
"Guthrie, Oklae, Nov, 23, 191l=-"If your honor pleases, I
would like to have this order carried out tomorrow,! was
the reply of Governor Brown, a negro, when District Judge
Huston Wednesday sentenced him to hang January 19, 1912,
for the mrder of Robert L. Burks, a negro farmer, near
Crescent last January. Judge Huston seemed more grieved
than the condemned man as he passed sentence, When the
judge said: 'IMay God have mercy on your soul,' Brown re=
plied: 'I hope so, too, for the court and the witnesses
havenot had. The court has no regard for human nature,'
Asked if he had anything to say, Brown gave a brief accoun
of thekilling and said that he acted in self-defence,'
BIRMINGHAM NEWS, B'ham, Ala., 11-23-1911.
BROWN, Governor
(Don't know whether hanged or not)
"Guthrie, Okla., Nov. 23, 191l="If your honor pleases, I
would like to have this order carried out tomorrow,' was
the reply of Governor Brown, a negro, when District Judge
luston Wednesday sentenced him to hang January 19, 1912,
for the murder of Robert L. Burks, a negro farmer, near
Crescent last January. Judge Huston seemed more grieved
than the condemned man as he passed sentence. When the
judge said: 'IMay God have mercy on your soul,' Brown re=
plied: 'I hope so, too, for the court and the witnesses
havenot had. The court has no regard for human nature,!
Asked if he had anything to say, Brown gave a brief accoun}
of thekilling and said that he acted in self-defence,’
BIRMINGHAM NEWS, B'ham, Alas, 11-23-1911.
BROW, Governor
(Don't know whether hanged or not)
"Guthrie, Okla., Nov, 23, 1911-'If your honor pleases, I
would like to have this order carried out tomorrow,! was
the reply of Governor Brown, a negro, when District Judge
Huston Wednesday sentenced him to hang January 19, 1912,
for the mirder of Robert L, Barks, a negro farner, near
Crescent last January, Judge Huston seemed more grieved
than the condemned man as he passed sentence, ‘hen the
judge said: 'IMay God have mercy on your soul,’ Brown re~
plied: 'I hope so, too, for the court and the witnesses
havenot had. ‘The court has no regard for human nature.!
Asked if he had anything to say, Brown gave a brief acco
of thekilling and said that he acted in self-defence,’
BIRMINGHAM NEWS, B'ham, Ala., 11-23-1911,
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