HOLINESS, John
23-year“old black man, hanged Marion, Perry County, Ala,
on Nov. 23, 1888, for the murder in April of his 15-year-
old paramour, Celia Johnson, who refused to marry hin,
He went to field where she was working, armed with’a shot=
gun loaded with a corncob in absence of other shot, They
argued for an hour, with her pleading for life, befere he
shot, the charge taking effect in neck and killing, See
article in ALABAMA = not written up = from Montgomery
Advertiser, Nov, 2), 1888, Enough to go on, Not
appealed,
HOLINESS, John
23-year-old black man, hanged Marion, Perry County, Ala,
on Nov, 23, 1888, for the murder in April of his 15-year-
old paramour, Celia Johnson, who refused to marry him,
He went to field where she was working, armed with’a shot
gun loaded with a corncob in absence of other shot, They
argued for an hour, with her pleading for life, befere he
shot, the charge taking effect in neck and killing, See
article in ALABAMA = not written up = from Montgomery
Advertisér, Nov, 2, 1888, Enough to go on, Not
appealed,
HOLINESS, John
23-year-old black man, hanged Marion, Perry County, Ala, ,
on Nov, 23, 1888, for the mrder in April of his 15-year-
old paramour, Celia Johnson, who refused to marry him,
He went to field where she was working, armed with’a shot.
gun loaded with a corncob in absence of other shot, They
argued for an hour, with her pleading for life, befere he
shot, the charge taking effect in neck and killing, See
article in ALABAMA = not witten up = from Montgomery
Advertisér, Nov, 2li, 1888, Enough to go on, Not
appealed.
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