at the jail when Oliver, accompanied by Dambrino, went
there to seeRichardson, a prisoner in‘the jail, about an
automobile key it was thought he had. Unsuccessful efforts
were made to have Governor Bilbo commute his sentence to
that of lifeimprisonment yesterday," TIMES-PICAYUNE, New
Orleans, ba,, 27-1929 (2/l). Notes See TIMES-PICAYUNE
for 8-27-1928 (1/3) and days before back to crime for de=
tails of crime, Affirmed on appeal: 121 SOUTHERN 28),
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at the jail when Oliver, accompanied by Dambrino, went
there to seeRichardson, a prisoner in‘the jail, about an
automobile key it was thought he had. Unsuccessful efforts
were made to have Governor Bilbo commute his sentence to
that of lifeimprisonment yesterday." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New
Orleans, ba,, l-27-1929 (2/l). Notes See TIMES-PICAYUNE
for 8-27-1928 (1/3) and days before back to crime for de=
tails of crime, Affirmed on appeal: 121 SOUTHERN 28).
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at the jail when Oliver, accompanied by Dambrino, went
there to seeRichardson, a prisoner in'the jail, about an
automobile key it was thought he had, Unsuccessful efforts
were made to have Governor Bilbo commute his sentence to
that of lifeimprisonment yesterday." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New
Orleans, ba,, 1-27-1929 (2/4). Notes See TIMES-PICAYUNE
for 8-27-1928 (1/3) and days before back to crime for de=
tails of crime, Affirmed on appeal: 121 SOUTHERN 28),
Lettie
RICHARDSON, Silas Corl 26; /Fo. +
"Bay St. Louis, Miss., April 26, 1929-Silas Richardson, ne=
gro, paid with his life here this morning for the murder
“ugust 1, 1928, of John Dambrine, Bay St. Louis automobile
mechanic, in the first legal execution in Hancock County in
twenty years. Neither admitting\nor denying his guilt, the
negro stepped upon the scaffold at 10:10 this mornings The
trap was sprung at 10:15 and he was prnounced dead from
Strangulation at 10:35, by the Hancock county health officer
C. M. Shipp. Sheriff Jones sprung the trap in the presence
of deputy sheriffs and police officers of various coast town
after Richardson had made a fervent prayer on the scaffold,
He spent most of yesterday and the forenoon today in company
with Catholic priests, Dambrino was killed by Richardson ir
the municipal jail hereand city police officer Frank Oliver
was wounded by Richardson last August in a shooting affair
RICHARDSON, Silas Corl 2lo)1F2 Be
"Bay St. Louis, Miss., April 26, 1929-Silas Richardson, ne=
ero, paid with his life here this morning for the murder
“ugust ll, 1928, of John Dambrino, Bay St. Louis automobile
mechanic, in the first legal execution in Hancock County in
twenty years. Neither admitting\nor denying his guilt, the
negro stepped upon the scaffold at 10:10 this mornings The
trap was sprung at 10¢15 and he was prnounced dead from
strangulation at 10:35, by the Hancock county health office
C. M, Shipp. Sheriff Jones sprung the trap in the presence
of deputy sheriffs and police officers of various coast town
after Richardson had made a fervent prayer on the scaffold,
ie spent most of yesterday and the forenoon today in compan,
with Catholic priests. Dambrino was killed by Richardson i
the municipal jail hereand city police officer Frank Oliver
was wounded by Richardson last August in a shooting affair
RICHARDSON, Silas Gps 26/727
jafter Richardson had made a fervent prayer on the scaffold, |
le spent most of yesterday and the forenoon today in c
xy in conpal
with Catholic priests, Dambrino was killed by Richardson il
the municipal jail hereand city police officer Frank Oliver
was wounded by Richardson last August in a shooting affair
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