USENTENCED-TO-HANGIN-GEORGIA.=-Augusta, Gas, July 15,
1891 - Judge Roney today sentenced Frank Danforth to be
hanged on the lth of September for the murder of: Lizzie
Danforth in June last," SUN, Baltimore, Mad.” 7-16-1891,
USENTENCED—POHANG—IN-GRORGIA. = Augusta, Ga., July 15,
1891 - Judge Roney today sentenced Frank Danforth to be
hanged on the lith of September for the murder of- Lizzie
Danforth in June last." SUN, Baltimore, Md.” 7-16-1891,
SENTENCED-TO-HANG -IN-GHORGIA, = Augusta; Ga.) July 15,
1891 - Judge Roney todsy sentenced Frank Danforth to be
hanged on the lith of September for the murder of. Lizzie
Danforth in June 2: "SUN, Baltimore, Md. 7-16-1891,
DANFORTH, Frank
Danforth, a black resident of Augusta, Ga., was employed at the River-
side Mills, On Saturday night, June 28, 1891, he and his wife, Lizzie,
had been visiting his father at Eaeciebure. When they were walking
home she stopped and talked with a man with whom Danforth believed
she was being intimate, After they reached heme, he accused her of
infidelity and, he said, she informed him that she would go with the
other man whenever she wished to do so but that he would still have
to support her, He knocked her to the floor and cut her throat with
a razor, After a while he took her body to she river and threw it
in, It was discovered the flollowing Monday but Danforth had already
fled, He was captured hiding under the bed at the home of his bro-
ther in Wilkes County on July 3 and returned to Augusta where he
made a full confession. Speedily brought to trial, convicted and
sentenced to die, bhere was no appeal and he was hanged in the Rich-~
mond County Jail on Sept. 4, 1891, He made a brief statenent in which
he professed religion and said that he felt that he had been forgiven
for his crime,
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Gao, July and July 5, 1891
BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Birmingham, Alae 9-l-1891
DANFORTH, Frank
Danforth, a black resident of Augusta, Gae, was employed at the River=
side Mills, On Saturday night, June 28, 1891, he and his wife, Lizzie,
had been visiting his father at Harrisburg, When they were walking
home she stopped and talked with a man with whom Danforth believed
she was being intimate, after they reached heme, he accused her of
infidelity and, he said, she informed him that she would go with the
other man whenever she wished to do so but that he would still have
to support her, He knocked her to the floor and cut her throat with
a razor, After a while he took her body to she river and threw it
in, It was discovered the following Monday but Danforth had already
fled, He was captured hiding under the bed at the home of his bro-
ther in Wilkes County on July 3 and returned to Augusta where he
made a full confession. Speedily brought to trial, convicted and
sentenced to die, bhere was no appeal and he was hanged in the Rich-
mond County Jail on Sept. l, 1891, He made a brief statement in which
he professed religion and said that he felt that he had been forgiven
for his crime,
ATLANPA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga., July ) and July 5, 1891
BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Birmingham, Ala. 9-l-1891
DANFORTH, Frank
Danforth, a black resident of Augusta, Ga., was employed at the River=
side Mills, On Saturday night, June 28, 1891, he and his wife, Lizzie,
had been visiting his father at Harrisburg, When they were walking
home she stopped and talked with a man with whom Danforth believed
she was being intimate, sfter they reached heme, he accused her of
infidelity and, he said, she informed him that she would go with the
other man whenever she wished to do so but that he would still have
to support her, He knocked her to the floor and cut her throat with
avragor, After a while he took her body to she river and threw it
in, It was discovered the following Monday but Danforth had already
fled, He was captured hiding under the bed at the home of his bro-
ther in Wilkes County on July 3 and returned to Augusta where he
made a full confession. Speedily brought to trial, convicted and
sentenced to die, bhere was no appeal and he was hanged in the Rich~
mond County Jail on Sept. , 1891, He made a brief statement in which
he professed religion and said that he felt that he had been forgiven
for his crime,
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Gas, July and July 5, 1891
BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Birmingham, Ala, 9-1-1891
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