Henry Miller, GA, 1894 May 25

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weakeness on the scaffold, Miller and others had RAEI
waylaid Mr. Braswell where he was on his way home to
the country from Macon, His throat was cut from ear to
ear and his head was full of slugs and buckshot, "

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"weakeness on the scaffold. Miller and others had RARE
waylaid Mr. Braswell where he was on his way home to
the country from Macon, His throat was cut from ear to
ear and his head was full of slugs and buckshot, "

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"Macon, Gao, 5/25/189)-Henry Miller, colored was hanged _

| here for the mrder of John Braswell on 9/19/1893. Con-

——_vwicted_on_principally circumstantial evidence, Denied —
crime to last but admitted being present when it was
done and robbing the dead man's pockets, He also con=

-_fessed to having killed Pink Ryan who was found dead un=

year and a half ago, and wheme murder has always been
Shrouded in. mystery. He further confessed that he had

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Macon, Gaos 5/25/189)-Henry Miller, colored was hanged
here for the murder of John Braswell on 9/19/1893. Con~
victed_on_principally circumstantial evidence. Denied
crime to last but admitted being present when it was
done and robbing the dead man's pockets. He also con-

_-fessed to having killed Pink Ryan who was found dead un=

der a shed of the Meyropolitan Street Railway Company a
year and a half ago, and wheme murder has always been
shrouded_in mystery. He further confessed that he had
killed three other men on the Ocmlgee River and that he.

| belonged to a band of ku lux. His neck was broken.

_Made_no_prefession of religion and said that he could

__live as long in hell as anyone else, He was defiant

and sullen until the last and exhibited no Symptems of |
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“Macon, Gas, 5/25/189h-Henry Miller, colored was hanged

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Made no prefession of religion and said that he could
live as long in hell as anyone else, He was defiant
and sullen until the last and exhibited no symptoms of
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