he confessed in speaking his last words: "Gentlemen, I want to tell
you I killed that white woman - I want the whole world to know I
killed her,"
KNOXVILLE NEVS-BENTINEL, Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 5, 193i; Dec, 26, 19323
Dec, 27, 19323 Dec. 28, 1932: Dec, 129, 1932,
he confessed in speaking his last words: "Gentlemen, I want to tell
you I killed that white woman = I want the whole world to know I
killed her,"
KNOXVILLE NEVS-SENTINEL, Knoxville, Tenn,, Feb. 5, 193li3 Dec, 26, 1932;
Dec. 27, 19323 Dec. 28, 1932; Dec, 29, 1932,
Crantted in pores Gedy
Ihe confessed in speaking his last words: "@entlemen, I want to tell
e woman = I want the whole world to know I
you I killed that whi
killed her."
KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL, Knoxville, Tenn,, Feb. Dec, 26, 19325
Dec. 27, 19323 Dec, 28, 19325 Dec. 29, 1932,
Couoitted -« poofncrn Got
CaoiTted a fret
SWANN, James
Swann, a 19-year-old black man who had served sentences in a Tennessee
Reformatory and in the Tennessee State Prison system, lived with his
parents a short distance from the Jefferson County Poor Farm home one=
and one-half miles from Dandridge, Tenn, On the afternoon of Dec. 2h,
1932, Miss Sarah Abbie Rainwater, a 53-year-old white resident of the
home, had been visiting her stepmother and was returning to the farm
when it began raining, She stopped at the Swann house until the rain
ceased and then continued her journey across a field, She never
reached home and the next day her body was found in a clump of weeds
about 00 yards from the home, She had been criminally assaulted and,
in the course of her struggles, her neck had been twisted and broken,
Tracks from the scene of the murder led to the Swann home and James,
his father and his brother-in-law were all arrested on suspicion, On
Dec, 29th, after a friend of James came forward and testified that Hkx
KKK late onthe afternoon of Dec, 2l;th James had gone to his home and
said: "IT have killed somebody and I'm on my way to the electric chair,"
he was formally charged with the murder and the other members of the
family released, H e was taken to the Cocke County Jail for safe-
keeping and—-he—was—crented—a—shange of Vemre+to—cKnox County where he
was tried, convicted and sentenced to die, After he had been seated
in the electric chair at the Tennessee State Prison on Feb, 5, 193h,
SWANN, James
Swann, a 19-year-old black man who had served sentences in a Tennessee
Reformatory and in the Tennessee State Prison system, lived with his
parents a short distance from the Jefferson County Poor Farm home one=
and one-half miles from Dandridge, Tenn, On the afternoon of Dec, le,
1932, Miss Sarah Abbie Rainwater, a 53-year-old white resident of the
home, had been visiting her stepmother and was returning to the farm
when it began raining, She stopped at the Swann house until the rain
ceased and then continued her journey across a field, She never
reached home and the next day her body was found in a clump of weeds
about 00 yards from the home, She had been criminally assaulted and,
in the course of her strugkles, her neck had been twisted and broken,
Tracks from the scene of the murder led to the Swann home and James,
his father and his brother-in-law were all arrested on suspicion, On
Dec, 29th, after a friend of James came forward and testified that Xxx
KEK Late onthe afternoon of Dec, 2)lith James had gone to his home and
said: "I have killed somebody and I'm on my way to the electric chair,"
he was formally charged with the murder and the other members of the
family released, H e was taken to the Cocke County Jail for safe-
keeping and-he—yas_cranted—a—chariye 0. County where he
was tried, convicted and sentenced to die. After he had been seated
in the electric chair at the Tennessee State Prison on Feb, 5, 193h,
SWANN, James
Swann, a 19-year-old black man who had served sentences in a Tennessee
Reformatory and in the Tennessee State Prison system, lived with his
parents a short distance from the Jefferson County Poor Farm home one=
and one-half miles from Dandridge, Tenn, On the afternoon of Dec. 2biy
1932, Miss Sarah Abbie Rainwater, a 53-year-old white resident of the
found in a clump of weeds
about 100 yards from the home, She had been criminally assaulted and,
in the course of her struggles, her neck had been twisted and broken,
Tracks from the scene of the murder led to the Swann home and James,
his father and his brother-in-law were all arrested on suspicion, On
Dec, 29th, after a friend of James came forward and testified that 4K
XH late onthe afternoon of Dec, 2lth James had gone to his home and
said: "I have killed somebody and I'm on my way to the electric chair,"
he was formally charged with the murder and the other menbers of the
family released, He was taken to the Cocke County Jail for safe
keeping a: if ty where he
was tried, convicted and sentenced to die, After he had been seated
in the electric chair at the Tennessee State Prison on Feb, 5, 193h,
