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/court when he died, and Prince's latest: reprieve expired —
‘yesterday. In a confession to officers, the negro said he
and Wexler had participated in numberous hold-ups in the vii
cinity.' TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, “a., lj-26-1933 (9-5).
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Icourt when he died, and Prince's latest: reprieve expired
|yesterday. In a confession to officers, the negro said he
and Wexler had participated in numberous hold-ups in the vi
cinity." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, “as, l-26-1933 (9-5).
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col to officers, the negro said he
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PRINCE, Andrew © A-2S-/GFs=
Hattiesburg, Miss., -25-1933-The last chapter in a long=—
drawn out legal fight was written today when the state
hanged Andrew Prince, 2l-yeareold negro, for the murder of -
J. L. ~dom, local filling station proprietor, who was shot
and killed in a hold-up in Dec., 1931, in which the bandits
obsained $8, Odom's widow and Harvey T, and Homer C, Odom,
brothers of the victim, viewed today s execution as legal
witnesses. Paul Wexler, local white youth, convicted with
Prince and with him sentenced to be hanged, diéd in the
Hattiesburg jail cell 12 days ago as a result of a hunger
strike started while he took multiple appeals to the courts
in an effort to escape the gallows, On each of the appeals
Prince benefited by executive reprieves, issued on Gov.
Sennett Conner's announcement that he wuld not allow the
negro to die until Wexler's fate had been finally determin-
ede Two appeals ty Wexler were pending in the state suprem
PRINCE, Andrew ‘ A-2S5=/G 32 /
"Hattiesburg, Miss., l-25-1933-The last chapter in a long- |
drawn out legal fight was written today when the state
hanged Andrew Prince, 21-year-old negro, for the murder of
J. Le “dom, local filling station proprietor, who was shot
and killed in a hold-up in Dec., 1931, in which the bandits
obaained $8, Odom's widow and Harvey IT, and Homer C, Odom,
brothers of the victim, viewed today s execution as legal
witnesses. Paul Wexler, local white”youth, convicted with
Prince and with him sentenced to be hanged, diéd in the
Hattiesburg jail cell 12 days ago as a result of a hunger
strike started while he took multiple appeals to the courts
in an effort to escape the gallows, On each of the appeals
Prince benefited by executive reprieves, issued on Gov.
Sennett Conner's announcement that he wuld not allow the
negro to die until Wexler's fate had been finally determin-
ede Two appeals by Wexler were pending in the state suprem
PRINCE, Andrew “ A-25-/GS=
"Hattiesburg, Miss,, l-25-1933-The last chapter in a long-
drawn out legal fight was written today when the state
hanged Andrey Prince, 2l-year-old negro, for vhe murder of
. L, “dom, local filling station proprietor, who was shot
and killed in a hold-up in Dec., 1931, in which the bandits|
obaained $8, Odom's widow and Harvey T, and Homer C, Sten,
brothers of the victim, viewed todays execution as legal
witnesses, Paul Wexler, local white’youth, convicted ooh
Prince and with him sentenced to be hanged, died in the
Hattiesburg jail cell 12 days ago as a result of a hunger
strike started while he ioe multiple appeals to the courts
in an effort to escape the gallows, On each of the cane
rince benefited by executive reprieves, issued on
Sennett Comers announcenent that he vould not. allow the
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