Walter Delaney, AL, 1922 July 14

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DELAWEY. Walter

Black, hanged Mobile, 4la,, duly 1), 1922, for murder of |
grocer Sam Block in 1919, Accomplices Robert ("Socks")
Edwards and Dan Charley, both hanged on separate dates in
1921, Delaney granted new trial from original conviction
(87 Southern 183), Edwards had evidently been timggerman
"Mobile, July 1h, 1922@A warning to Deputy Sheriffs Walte!
Burch and Walter Blackman jthat they were "Marked men"
were the last words of Walter Delaney, who paid the death
penalty on the Mobile County Jail scaffold this morning,,
The Negro Delaney from the scaffold told the two deputies
they had many enemies and that’ money had been offered by
white men for their removal, ..,."

BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD, Birmingham, Ala,, July 15, 1922.6

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DELANEY. Walter |
Black, hanged Mobile, 4la,, July 1), 1922, for murder of |
grocer Sam Block in 1919. Accomplices Robert ("Socks")
Edwards and Dan Charley, both hanged on separate dates in
1921, Delaney granted new trial from original conviction
(87 Southern 183), Edwards had evidently been tirkggerman,
"Mobile, July 1h, 1922eA warning to Deputy Sheriffs Walte’
Burch and Walter Blackman jthat they were "Marked men"
were the last words of Walter Delaney, who paid the death
penalty on the Mobile County Jail scaffold this morning,,
The Negro Delaney from the scaffold told the two deputies
they had many enemies and that money had been offered by
white men for their removal, e.."

BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD. Birmingham, Ala,, July 18, 1922.

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DELAKEY. Walter
Black, hanged Nobile, Ala, July Uh, 1922, for mrder of
grocer Sam Block in 1919, Accomplices Robert ("Socks")
Edwards and Dan Charley, both hanged on separate dates in
1921, Delaney granted new trial from original conviction
(87 Southern 183), Zdwards had evidently been titggerman|
‘Mobile, July 1h, 1922-A warning to Deputy Sheriffs Walte
Burch and Walter Blackman that they were "Marked men"

were the last words of Walter Delaney, who paid the death
penalty on the Mobile County Jail scaffold this morning,,
The Negro Delaney from the scaffold told the two deputies
they had many enemies and that money had been offered by
white men for their removals «. 4"

BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD, Birmingham, ae duly 18, 192

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