Lavannie Twitty, TX, 1925 June 5

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TWITTY, Lavannie

Black, electrocuted Texas State Prison @Dallas County) on
June 55, 19254 (268 SW 937). "“sselLavannie Twitty, negro,
who was sentenced to die at the same date with Welk, was
recently granted a sixty-day reprieve by Gov. Miriam A.
Ferguson, Twitty was convicted of mrder and sentenced to
die for thekilling of Ed Reed, negro rent car driver, Ree
was beaten to death with a short-handled hatchet when he
went in his rent car to answer a call in Oak Cliff, His
body was later found near Oak Cliff and his bloodestained
car in Fort Worth." NEWS, Dallas, Texas, 1-3-1925 (2/5)-
concerning execution of Sidney Welk,

Nothing in Dallas NEWS for 6/e or 6/6/1925

TWITTY, Lavannie

Black, electrocuted Texas State Prison @Dallas County) on
June 2%, 1925. (268 SW 937), '"..eLavannie Twitty, negro,
who was sentenced to die at the same date with Welk, was
recently granted a sixty-day reprieve by Gov. Miriam A.
Ferguson, Twitty was convicted of mrder and sentenced to
die for thekilling of Id Reed, negro rent car driver. Ree
was beaten to death with a short-handled hatchet when he
went in his rent car to answer a call in Oak Cliff, His
body was later found near Oak Cliff and his bloodestained
car in Fort Worth." NEWS, Dallas, Texas, -3-1925 (2/5)-
concerning execution of Sidney Welk,

Nothing in Dallas NEWS for 6/6 or 6/6/1925

| TWITTY, Lavannic
Black, electrocuted Texas State Pris county)
June 2, 1925. (268 SW 937). Lavannie Twitty, negro,
who was sentenced to die at the same date with Welk, was
eeay granted a sixty-day reprieve by Gov. Miriam A,
guson, Twitty was convicted of mrder and sentenced to
ae for thekilling of Eq Reed, negro rent car driver, Ree
vas beaten to death with a short-handled hatchet when he
went in his rent car to answer a call in Oak Cliff, His
body was later found near Oak Cliff and his blood-stained
car in Fort Worth." NEWS, poe bese 1-3-1925 (2/5)=
concerning execution of Sidne;
Nothing in Dallas NEWS for 6/5 or "6/6/1925

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