The Bars Let Down

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Choctaw Advocate
Place of publication: Butler, Alabama
Date of publication: 1/3/1912 0:00
Transcript:

Frank Richardson, the negro who was sentenced to hang on December 22nd for the murder of Messra Cooper and Horton in Tuscaloosa, was grant- ed an extension by Governor O’Neal for sixty days in the hope of commut- ing the sentence to life imprisonment. The extension and the move for a change in the verdiet is granted at the wish, and made by many leading citi- zens of Triscaloosa county. So much shameful and hidden meanness on the part of a certain class of white people toward the negroes has been uncover- ered in that county since the trial and conviction of Richardson, that great and much sympathy is now expressed in behalf of the condemned negro. Frank Richardson, the negro who was sentenced to hang on December 22nd for the murder of Messra Cooper and Horton in Tuscaloosa, was grant- ed an extension by Governor O’Neal for sixty days in the hope of commut- ing the sentence to life imprisonment. The extension and the move for a change in the verdiet is granted at the wish, and made by many leading citi- zens of Triscaloosa county. So much shameful and hidden meanness on the part of a certain class of white people toward the negroes has been uncover- ered in that county since the trial and conviction of Richardson, that great and much sympathy is now expressed in behalf of the condemned negro.