George Wilson, NJ, 1908 March 3

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WILSON, George
37-year-old black, electrocuted New Jersey State Prison |

(Essex County) on March 3, 1908, "Trenton, N. J., Mar.
| - George Wilson, a negro, was electrocuted at the State
Prison early Tuesday for murder in December last of Frede=
rick Romer, an Orange, N, J,, undertaker, who was killed
in his room at a hotel, Wilson was’ accompanied to the
chair by a negro clergyman, Wilson, after the murder of
Romer, fled to Philadelphia, where he was arrested shortly
after he had pawned a diamond ring."' JOURNAL, Atlanta,

Ga., March h, 1908 (3/20)

WILSON, George
37-year-old black, electrocuted New Jersey State Prison
(Essex County) on March 3, 1908, "Trenton, N. J., Mare
 - George Wilson, a negro, was electrocuted at the State
Prison early Tuesday for murder in December last of Frede=
rick Romer, an Orange, N. J,, undertaker, who was killed
in his room at a hotel, Wilson was’ accompanied to the
chair by a negro clergyman, Wilson, after the murder of
Romer, fled to Philadelphia, where he was arrested shortly
after he had pawned a diamond ring.'! JOURNAL, Atlanta,
Ga. “arch 4, 1908 (3/26)

WILSON, George
3inyear-old black, electrocuted New Jersey State Prison
(Zssex County) on March 3, 1908, "Trenton, N. J., Mar.
1, = George Wilson, a negro, was electrocuted at the State
Prison early Tuesday for murder in Decenber last of Frede-
rick Romer, an Orange, N, J,, undertaker, who was killed
in his room at a hotel, Wilson was accompanied to the
chair by a negro clergyman, Wilson, after the murder of

Romer, fled to Philadelphia, where he was arrested shortly|
after he had pawned a diamond ring." JOURNAL, Atlanta,
Ga., March h, 1908 (3/26)

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