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Johnson, 4 black ex-convict had served two prison terms for automo~-
bile theft and one for grand larceny, On the night of Jan. 10, 1917,
he went to the Monarch Mil] and Lumber Company in Little Rock, Arke,;
and bludgeoned the night watchman, an aged black man named Williams
with a brick before robbing him of a small sum of money and a revol-
ver, Williams regained consciousness before Johnson had left and
warned him that he was going to report the incident to the police,
Johnson then shot him in the head, killing hin instantly. His
white attorney pleaded with the jury to spare Johnson's life, stat-
ing that no black man had ever been sentenced to death in Pulaski
County for killing another black, but the all-white jury returned
a verdict of guilty without a recommendation for mercy and Johnson
was sentenced to die. He was electrocuted at the Arkansas State
Prison on August 8, 197.

THE PITTSBURGH COURIER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 17, 19:7.

JOHNSON, Cubie Lee

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Johnson, a black ex-convict had served two prison terms for automo~
bile theft and one for grand larceny. On the night of Jan. 10, 1917]
he went to the Monarch Mill and Lumber Company in Little Rock, Arke;
and bludgeoned the night watchman, an aged black man named Williams
with a brick before robbing him of a small sum of money and a revol-
ver. Williams regained consciousness before Johnson had left and
warned him that he was going to report the incident to the police.
Johnson then shot him in the head, killing him instantly. His
white attorney pleaded with the jury to spare Johnson's life, stat-
ing that no plack man had ever been sentenced to death in Pulaski
County for killing another black, but the all-white jury returned
a verdict of guilty without a recommendation for mercy and Johnson
was sentenced to die. He was electrocuted at the Arkansas State
Prison on August 8, 19,7.

THE PITTSBURGH COURIER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 17, 19h7.

JOHNSON, Cubie Lee
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Johnson, a black ex-convict had served two prison terms for automo-
pile theft and one for grand larceny, On the night of Jan, 10, 19,7.
he went to the Monarch Mill and Lumber Company in Little Rock, Arke,
and bludgeoned the night watchman, an aged black man named Williams
with a brick before robbing him of a small sum of money and a revol-
ver. Williams regained consciousness before Johnson had left and
warned him that he was going to report the incident to the police.
Johnson then shot him in the head, killing him instantly. His
white attorney pleaded with the jury to spare Johnson's life, stat-

g that no black man had ever been sentenced to death in Pulaski
County for killing another black, but the all-white jury returned
a verdict of guilty without a recommendation for mercy and Johnson
was sentenced to die. He was electrocuted at the Arkansas State
Prison on August 8, 197.

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