/GILMORE, Van Fo CAS —
| Black, electrocuted Tennessee Staté Prisor’, April 18, 191
| "A year to the day after he was arrested for the rape of
a young Memphis housewife, Van Gilmore, 31, negro, died in
the electric chair at the state penitentiary. Gilmore was
strapped in the chair at 5:20 AM, He was prnounced dead
at 5:23 AM, after one charge of current surged thru his
body, The negro acknowledged his guilt just before he
was strapped in the chair, He was convicted and sentenced
to die by a jury that deliberated only eight minutes, The
attack was HMR reported last April 17 by the 25-year-old
victim who said the negro apporached her car as it stalled
on a railroad crossing and forced her fo accompany him to
a nearby fiield,"' MFMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR, )-18-19))1
GILMORE. Van FOL" Crs)
| Black, electrocuted Tennessee Stat ‘ison, April 18, 191
"A year to the day after he was arrested for the rape of
a young Memphis housewife, Van Gilmore, 31, negro, died in
the electric chair at the state penitentiary. Gilmore was
strapped in the chair at 5:20 AM, He was prnounced dead
at 5:23 AM, after one charge of current surged thru his
body, The negro acknowledged his guilt just before he
was strapped in the chair, He was convicted and sentenced
to die by a jury that deliberated only eight minutes. The
attack was HMR reported last April 17 by the 25-year-old
victim who said the negro apporached her car as it stalled
on a railroad crossing and forced her fo accompany him to
a nearby field," MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR, )-18-19))1
GILMORE, Van Fe Cre —
Black, electrocuted Tennessee Stat@Pfisorf, April 18, 191
"A year to the day after he was arrested for the rape of
a young Memphis housewife, Van Gilmore, 31, negro, died in
the electric chair at the state penitentiary, Gilmore was
st: ed in the chair at 5:20 AM, He was prnounced dead
223 AM, after one charge of current surged thru his
body, The negro acknowledged his guilt just before he
was strapped in the chair, He was convicted and sentenced
to die by a jury that deliberated only eight minutes. The
attack was HMM reported last April 17 by the 25-year-old
victim who said the negro apporached her car as it stalled
on a railroad crossing and forced her fo accompany him to
a nearby field," MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR, )-18-191
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