Huey Wilson, TX, 1947 May 2

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ted the following day by Inspector of Detectives C. V.
Kern and a posse of #fficers hiding in the negro's garage
apartment, Police said that Wilson made a written state~
ment admitting the attack, He also robbed the woman of
$35, they said," CHRONICLE, Houston, Texas, May 2, 197
(1/8.3 Affirmed on appeal: 199 SW (and) 166,

ted the following day by Inspector of Detectives C. V.
Kern and a posse of §fficers hiding inthe negro's garage
apartment, Police said that Wilson made a written state-
ment admitting the attack, He also robbed the woman of
$35, they said." CHRONICLE, Houston, Texas, May 2, ee
(1/8.% Affirmed on appeal: 199 SW (and) 166,

ted the following day by Inspector of Detectives C. V.
Kern and a posse of $fficers hiding in the negro's garage|
apartment, Police said that Wilson made a written state-
ment admitting the attack, He also robbed the woman of
$35, they said," CHRONICLE, Houston, Texas, May 2, 1917
(1/8.} Affirmed on appeal: 199 SW (and) 166,

WILSON, Huey WORKSHEET — TEXAS ~ NWU = B ound
36-year-old black man, electrocuted Texas State Prison
(Harris County) on May 2, 197. "Huey Wilson, 36-year-
old negro given death for therape of a l3-year-old Hous-
ton woman May 8, 196, walked calmly into the death cham-
ber at Huntsville and was electrocuted at 12:03 asm, Fri-
daye Four members of the Houston police department wit-
nessed the electrocution, They were Asst. Chief A. C.

We CG. Doss, They said Wilson walked unassisted into the
death chamber, and took his place in the electric chair
without uttering a word, ‘When the warden asked him if he
had any last wrds, he didn't answer. The rape occurred

after the woman had returned home from a visit to a store
The negro, hiding in her home, hit her over the head with
a brick, pulled a knife and forced her into the bedroom

where he raped her, she told officers. Wilson was arres-

WILSON, Huey WORKSHEET ~ TEXAS - NWU = B ound
36-year-old black man, electrocuted Texas State Prison
(Harris County) on May 2, 1917. "Huey Wilson, 36-year-
old negro given death for therape of a l3-yearn-old Hous-
ton woman May 8, 196, walked calmly into the death cham-
ber at Huntsville and was electrocuted at 12:03 a.m Fri-
day. Four members of the Houston police department wit-
nessed the electrocution, They were Asst. Chief A. C.
Thornton and Homicide Dets. W. P. Brow, L. L. Watts and
We CG. Doss, They said Wilson walked unassisted into the
death chamber, and took his place in the electric chair
without uttering a word, When the warden asked him if he
had any last wrds, he didn't answer, The rape occurred
after the woman had returned home from a visit to a store
The negro, hiding in her home, hit her over the head with
a brick, pulled a knife and forced her into the bedroom
where he raped her, she told officers. Wilson was arres~

ELSON, Huey WORKSHEET - TEXAS - NU - B ound
36-year-old black man, electrocuted Texas State Prison
(Harris County) on May 2, 19172 ‘Huey Wilson, 3-year-
old negro given death for therape of a l3-yean-old Hous-
ton woman May 8, 196, walked calmly into the death cham-
ber at Huntsville and was electrocuted at 12:03 asm, Fri-
day. Four members of the Houston police department wit-
nessed the electrocution, They were Asst. Chief A. C.
Thorton and Homicide Dets, W. Py Brown, Le L, Watts and
W. CG Doss, They said Wilson walked unassisted into the
death chamber, and took his place in the electric chair
without uttering a word, ‘hen the warden asked him if
had any last wrds, he didn't answer, The re cael
after the woman had returned home from a visit

The negro, hiding in her home, hit her over eve head | th
a brick, pulled a a knife and forced her into the bedroom
where he raped her, she told officers, Wilson was arres-

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