aro said he then attemted to rape thw woman, but sai
her companion struck him 'and we rolled down the dump,!
tT shot him,' the statement went ony * and then jumped
up and ran. [At first I just wanted to rob them. I did-
n't have any job and was out to pick up someone,"
Acfording to records of the trial, Mobley confessed the
shooting and robbery but did not confess the assault,"
MEMPHIS PRESS=SCIMITAR, Memphis, Tenn,, March 15; 190
ero said he then attempted to rape thw woman, but said |
her companion struck him 'and we rolled down the dump,!
tT shot him,? the statement went on, ' and then jumped
up and ran. It first I just wanted to rob them, I did-
n't have any job and was out to pick up someone,"
Ac€ording to records of the trial, Mobley confessed the
shooting and robbery but did not confess the assault,"
MEMPHIS PRESS=SCIMITAR, Memphis, Tenn., March bs 190
gro said he then attem rape thw woman, but said
her companion struck him ‘and we rolled down the dump,!
yt him,? the statement went on, ' and then jumped
and ran. It first I just wanted to rob them, TI did-|
n't have any job and was out to pick up someone,”
Ac€ording to records of the trial, Mobley confessed the
shooting and robbery but did not confess the assault,"
MEMPHIS PRESS=SCIMITAR, Memphis, Tenn,, March 15, 1910
MOBLEYS Ca Ce. i i ee ne
‘"Nashville, Tenney 3-15-19)0—A, C. Mobley, 35, negro,
was executed in the electric fhair today,. He was cone
victed last April on a charge of rape resulting from an
attack upon and robbery of a white womple at Memphis in
September, 1938, “eputy Warden Glenn Swafford said
that before he died the negro confessed to robbing the a
couple, Q8@a¥2%8 assaulting the woman and shooting her
escort. Swafford said the condemned man, wavering, as
the execution hour approached from thes tolid attitude
he had exhibited, signed a rambling account of the
attack, As the man and woman drove dawm beside a
hedge and stopped the confession read, 'I crawled behind
the hedge and when the man got out of the car I searched
him and found one nickel, removed the front seat of
fhe car and found two rings and a wrist watche' The ne-
MOBLEY, €. C.
‘Nashville, Tenne, 3-15-19)0-A, C. Mobley, 35, negro,
was executed in the electric fhair today. He was con-
victed last April on a charge of rape resulting from an
attack upon and robbery of a white womple at Memphis in
September, 1938. Yeputy warden Glenn Swafford said
that before he died the negro confessed to robbing the 2
couple, @@@a7¥28 assaulting the woman and shooting her
escort. Swafford said the condemned man, wavering, as
the execution hour approached from thes tolid attitude
he had exhibited, signed a rambling account of the
attack, As the man and woman drove deawm beside a
hedge and stopped the confession read, 'I crawled behind
the hedge and when the man gee out of the car I searched
him and found one nickel, removed the front seat of
fhe car and found two rings and a wrist watch.' The ne-
MOBLEY. C. C.
‘Nashville, Tenn,, 3-15-19)0-4. C. Mobley, 35, negro,
as executed in the electric ghair todays, He was con~
victed last April on a charge of rape resulting from an
attack upon and robbery of a white womple at Memphis in
September, 1938, Yeputy Warden Glenn Swafford said
that before he died the negro confessed to robbing the gf
couple, QWBa%8€8 assaulting the woman and shooting her
escort. Swafford said the condemned man, wavering, as
the execution hour approached from the s tolid attitude
he had exhibited, signed a rambling account aes ue
attacks As the man and woman drove daze bes:
Tete god /evopeedl the (Gontesatoniceady ST eeewiedrsemna
ot outs a the ves Geet
Gea the front sea
ear eee watchs!
the hedge and when the man
him and found one nickel.
the car and found two rings al
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