Harry Lacy, TX, 1939 December 19

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“LACY, Harry

Black, electrocutedlexas State “rison (Montgomery County)o
Dec. 19, 1939, Originally convicted in Grimes County and
reversed..on appeal (111 SW -2nd= 26h). Then convicted in
Montgomery County and affirmed (128 Sw -2nd- OE eM es
dered Womack to prevent prosecution for theft of hog,
Nothing in Conroe (Montgomery County) COURIER,

"Huntsville, Texey Dece 19, 1939, = Harry Lacy, lenyear=
old Trinity county ne gro, was executed in the electric
Chair at the Central State prison in Huntsville today. He
was the 192nd to losé his life in the chair, and the sec-
Ond within four days, Lacy was sentenced to death in Mont-
gomery county for the fatal shooting of Edgar Womack, pro=
minent Trinity county farmer," CLARION-LEDGER, Jackson,
MS., Dec. 20, 1939 (1:7.)

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| LACY, Harry

Black, electrocutedlexas State “rison (Montgomery County)on
Dec. 19, 1939, Originally convicted in Grimes County and
reversed. on appeal (111 SW -2nd= 26). Then convicted in
Montgomery County and affirmed (128 Sw -2nd- 1165). “Mur
dered Womack to prevent prosecution for theft of hoge
Nothing in Conroe (Montgomery County) COURIER.

"Huntsville, Texe, Dec. 19, 1939. = Harry Lacy, l2avear~
old Trinity county ne gro, was executed in the electric
Chair at the Central State prison in Huntsville today. He
was the 192nd to lose his life in the chair, and the sec-
ond within four days, Lacy was sentenced to death in Mont-
gomery county for the fatal shooting of Edgar Womack, pro~
minent Trinity county farmer." CLARION-LEDGER, Jackson,
MS., Dec. 20, 1939 (1:7.)

| LACY, Harry

Black, électrocutedrexas State ‘rison
Dec. 19, 1939, y and
Then convicted in

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minent Trinity county farmer." CLARION-LEDGER, Jackson,
MS., Dec. 20, 1939 (127.)

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