Frank Richardson Gets Another 60 Day Respite

STATE PARDON BOARD REFUSES TO RECOMMEND CLEMENCY-AT TORNEYS WILL CARRY CASE TO SUPREME COURT. WAS TO HAVE BEEN HANGED FEBRUARY 22nd. Frank Richardson, the negro under Board. of Pardons. That Board sit- sentence of death for the murder of ting in session this week on yester- ex-deputy sheriff Tom Cooper and day handed down its verdict in the matter which in effect was that they Brown Horton, one of the posse pur- would not recommend elemency for suing him has been granted an ad- the negro. An appeal was immediate- ditional respite of sixty days by the ly made to the governor to grant an governor, respite dating from Febru- additional respite in order that the ary 22nd, the date set for the hanging case might e properly brought be- of the negro. The respite was grant- fore the State Supreme Court; the ed In order that attorneys for the information that the respite : had negro might bring his case before been granted being contained in a the State Supreme Court telegram received yesterday as fol- Attorneys for the negro are making lows: a hard fight for a commutement of Montgomery, Feb. 14th, 1912. the sentence imposed on him. When Times-Gazette, the negro was sentenced in court Tuscaloosa, Ala. here directly after hig trial for kill- Frank Richardson – respited until ing Brown Horton, his attorneys set April 19th. in motion the wheels which gained J.H. NUNINELEE, for the negro his first respite of 60 days which would have expired COTTON MARKET. Thursday the 22nd. Since that time the attorneys have interested them- Futures. selves in getting the negro’s sentence May, N. O. 10:53 commuted to life imprisonment, and July, N. O. 10:60 brought the case before the State Local Spots 1014 STATE PARDON BOARD REFUSES TO RECOMMEND CLEMENCY-AT TORNEYS WILL CARRY CASE TO SUPREME COURT. WAS TO HAVE BEEN HANGED FEBRUARY 22nd. Frank Richardson, the negro under Board. of Pardons. That Board sit- sentence of death for the murder of ting in session this week on yester- ex-deputy sheriff Tom Cooper and day handed down its verdict in the matter which in effect was that they Brown Horton, one of the posse pur- would not recommend elemency for suing him has been granted an ad- the negro. An appeal was immediate- ditional respite of sixty days by the ly made to the governor to grant an governor, respite dating from Febru- additional respite in order that the ary 22nd, the date set for the hanging case might e properly brought be- of the negro. The respite was grant- fore the State Supreme Court; the ed In order that attorneys for the information that the respite : had negro might bring his case before been granted being contained in a the State Supreme Court telegram received yesterday as fol- Attorneys for the negro are making lows: a hard fight for a commutement of Montgomery, Feb. 14th, 1912. the sentence imposed on him. When Times-Gazette, the negro was sentenced in court Tuscaloosa, Ala. here directly after hig trial for kill- Frank Richardson – respited until ing Brown Horton, his attorneys set April 19th. in motion the wheels which gained J.H. NUNINELEE, for the negro his first respite of 60 days which would have expired COTTON MARKET. Thursday the 22nd. Since that time the attorneys have interested them- Futures. selves in getting the negro’s sentence May, N. O. 10:53 commuted to life imprisonment, and July, N. O. 10:60 brought the case before the State Local Spots 1014