Eddie Daniels, 1946 February 8

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_ DANIELS, Eddie ("Big 'Un")

Daniels, a 3h~year-old Cairo, Ga., black man, was enamoured..of a. .*
35-year-old woman named Juanita King, the mother of three. .childrang...
who he sought to marry. Mrs, King rejected his repeated preposals,
and, on the night of July 31, 1913, they got into a violent..apgument
at her house and when she fled, he F8XX##A followed and stabbed her
to death with a large knife in a ditch in front of her residence,

One of her neighbors who had heard her screams witnessed the murder
and positively identified Daniels as the killer. He was subsequently
captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to die. He was electrocuted
at the Georgia State “*rison on Feb, 8, 1916,

CAIRO MESSENGER, Cairo, Ga., August 6, 19))3.
35 SOUTHEASTERN 2nd= 362, ~ BEORGIA ~ BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCERPTS,

DANIELS, Eddie ("Big 'Un")
Daniels, a 3l-year-old Cairo, Ga., black man, was enamoured.of a.
35-year-old woman named Juanita King, the mother of three children,
who he sought to marry. Mrs, King rejected his repeated proposals,
and, on the night of July 31, 1913, they got into a violent aggument
at her house and when she fled, he F8XX#8M followed and stabbed her
to death with a large knife in a ditch in front of her residence,
One of her neighbors who had heard her screams witnessed the murder
and positively identified Daniels as the killer, He was subsequently
captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to die. He was electrocuted
at the Georgia State ‘rison on Feb. 8, 196.

CAIRO MESSENGER,,Cairo, Ga., August 6, 1913.
35 SOUTHEASTERN 2nd= 362, = BEORGIA ~ BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCERPTS.

DANIELS, Eddie ("Big 'Un")

Daniels, a 3l~year-old Cairo, Ga., black man, was enanoured.of a.

35-year-old wonan named Juanita King, the nother of three. children;
who he sought to marry. Mrs, King rejected his repeated proposals,
and, on the night of duly 31, 1913, they got into a violent.aggument
at her house and when she fled, he X6XIKHM followed and stabbed her
to death with a large knife in a ditch in front of her residence,

One of her neighbors who had heard her screams witnessed the murder
and positively identified Daniels as the killer. He was subsequently
captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to die. He was electrocuted
at the Georgia State ‘rison on Feb. 8, 19/6,

CAIRO MSSSENGER, Cairo, Ga., August 6, 1913.
35 SOUTHEASTERN 2nd~ 362, - BEORGIA - BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCERPTS.

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Eddie Daniels executed on 1946-02-08 in Georgia (GA)
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