BESTER,, Nellie
(Not hanged, )
Bester, a 20-year-old black woman, murdered her
husband, Smiéh Bester, at Woodstock, Alabama,
an January, 1922, with an ax, She then dis-
membered the corpse and threw the various por-
tlons into a nearby creek. She confessed, was
tried and sentenced to die. While awaiting
execution, she managed to get pregnant by a
trusty and after the Alabama Supreme Court
ruled that pregnaht woman could not be hanged,
her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment,
Source: BLOODY BIBB, by V. Donald Elam; Center-~
ville, AL: Elam Enterprises, 1985, pp 91-93
BESTER, Nellie
(Not hanged, )
Bester, a 20-year-old black woman, murdered her
husband, Smiéh Bester, at Woodstock, Alabama,
in January, 1922, with an ax. She then dis-
membered the corpse and threw the various por-
tions into a nearby creek. She confessed, was
tried and sentenced to die, While awaiting
execution, she managed to get pregnant by a
trusty and after the Alabama Supreme Court
ruled that pregnaht woman could not be hanged,
her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment,
Source: BLOODY BIBB, by V. Donald Elam; Center-
Ville, AL: Blam Enterprises, 1985, pp 91-93
BESTER, Nellie
(Wot hanged, )
Bester, a 20-year-old black woman, murdered her
husband, Smi¢h Bester, at Woodstock, Alabam
in January, 1922, with an ax, She then dis
membered the corpse and threw the various por=
tions into a nearby creek. She confessed, was
tried and sentenced to die. While awaiting
execution, she managed to get pregnant by a
trusty and after Alabama Supreme Court
ruled that pregnaht woman could not be hanged,
her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Source: BLOODY BIBB, by V. Donald Elam; Center-
ville, AL: Elam Enterprises, 1985, pp 91-93
ville, sly blow anterprice, 2985, 3p 91053,
