Sentence Reported in Eufaula

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Times and News
Place of publication: Eufaula, AL
Date of publication: Apr 26, 1888 12:00 am
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Transcript:

A Murderer to be Hung. TUSKALQOSA, April 20.-The negro Jim Seams, who while resisting arrest shot and killed Deputy Sheriff J. M. Autrey in January last, was today convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hung on the first day of June, just six weeks from today. He will be confined in jail here until the time appointed for his execution.