August Sias, LA, 1944 March 9

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Sentence was commuted 3-2=<19h.

Electrocuted for murder, Plaquemines Parish, bas, on
March 9, XRKX 19h

"Sias, according to District Attorney, lured the
victim, a prominent white farmer, Arthur Lee,
into the the back section of a yard, where Sias
had been hidine in some weeds, Saas shot Lee in
the back with a shotgun, as Lee walked past the
hiding place. Mr. Lee fell to the gpound, mor-
tally wounded, and begged Sias not to shoot him
acain. However, Sias reloaded his single barrel

fae Shee and blasted, Lee thneygh, th part ing
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dol ae ‘MeBride, of the Dee Judicial District,

SIAS, August

Sentence was commuted 3-2-19)h.

Electrocuted for murder, Plaquemines Parish, Lae, on
March 9, XXKX 19h)

"Sias, according to District Attorney, lured the
victim, a prominent white farmer, Arthur Lee,
into the the back section of a yard, where Sias
had been hiding in some weeds, Sias shot Lee in
the back with a shotgun, as Lee walked past the
hiding place. Mr. Lee fell to the gpound, mor-
tally wounded, and begged Sias not to shoot him
acain, However, Sias reloaded his single barrel
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coride, of the 25th Judicial District,

STAS, August
Sentence was commuted 3-219).
for murder, Parish, La,, on
mes 9, XXKK 19h
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had been hiding in some weeds,

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