Tommie Wells, TX, 1938 June 17

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WELLS, Tommie

Black, electhoctued Texas State Prison (Bowie County)
on 6-17-1938. "June 17, 1938-lommie Wells, 25-year-old
Monroe,La., negro convicted of criminal assault on a

Texarkana white woman was executed first...(another man
followed, )"

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, Forth Worth, Texas, 6-17-1938

(1-6)

Paused to pray when he entered death chamber, Quoted

Scriptures at random as guards strapped him into chair,
NEWS, Dallas, 6-17-1938 (1-7)

WELLS, Tommie

Black, electhoctued Texas State Prison (Bowie County)
on 6-17-1938. "June 17, 1938=lommie Wells, 25-year-old
Monroe,La., negro convicted of criminal assault on a
Texarkana white woman was executed first.s..(another man
followed, )"

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, Forth Worth, Texas, 6-17-1938
(1-6)

Paused to pray when he entered death chamber, Quoted
Scriptures at random as guards strapped him into chair,
NEWS, Dallas, 6-17-1938 (1-7)

WELLS, Tomnie

Black, electhoctued Texas State Prison (Bowie County)
on 6-17-1938, "June 17, 1938-Tommie Wells, 25-year-old
Monroe,La., negro convicted of criminal assault on a
‘Texarkana white woman was executed first..,(another man
followed, )"

een WORTH STAR-TELH3RAM, Forth Worth, Texas, 6-17-1938
1-6

@ to pray when he entered death chant Quoted
ptures at random as guards strapped him into chair,

Dallas, 6-17-1938 (1-7)

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