Henry Grier, NC, 1936 July 10

GRIER, Henry

Black, electrocuted N, C, State Prison (Forsyth), July 10,
1936 for murder of Annie Giles, common-law wife, on May 5,
1935. Affirmed on appeal: 183 SE 272. ",.eA spectacular
anticlimax to death was enacted Friday by Henry Grier,
wife -murderer, who leaped from the third tier of the Ra-
leigh, N. C., siateprison shortly before. his scheduled ex-
ecution, The negro gained only a few harrowing hours,
Painfully hurt, he wastaken to the electric chair several
hours Later..." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Ukteans, ba,, 7-11-
19 36 (3=5e)

Affirmed 183 S.E. 272 -- See N.C. Book and Mag,

GRIER, Henry

Black, electrocuted N. C, State Prison (Forsyth), July 10,
1936 for murder of Annie Giles, common-law wife, on May 5,
1935. Affirmed on appeal: 183 SE 272. ".seA spectacular
anticlimax to death was enacted Friday by Henry Grier,
wife -murderer, who leaped from the third tier of the Ra-
leigh, N. C., stateprison shortly before. his scheduled ex-
ecution, The negro gained only a few harrowing hours,
Painfully hurt, he wastaken to the electric chair several
hours later... TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Ukteans, ba,, 7-11-
1936 (3-5e)

Affirmed 183 S.E. 272 -- See N.C. Book and Mag.

GRIER, Henry
Black, electrocuted N, C, State Prison (Forsyth), July 10,
1936 for murder of Annie Giles, comon-law wife, on May 5,
1935. Affirmed on appeal: 183 SE 272. ",...A spectacular
anbiclimax to death was enacted Friday by Henry Grier,

wife -murderer, vho leaped fromthe third tier of the Ra~
leigh, N. C., stateprison shortly before. his scheduled ex-

ecution, The negro gained only a few harrowing hours,
Painfully hurt, he wastaken to the electric chair several
hours Later..." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Utkeans, La,, 7-11-
1936 (3-50)

Affirmed 183 S.E. 272 -- See N.C. Book and Mag.