Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-18 | Page 3 | Rebuild Gallows to Execute Negro |

Type	issue
Date	1926-02-18
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Rebuild Gallows to Execute Negro
Type	article
Date	1926-02-18
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	3
OCR Text	Show REBUILD GALLOWS TO EXECUTE NEGRO AT ATLANTA TA Ga Feb 18 AP AP- AP The Fulton county county gallows which was dismantled several months ago after the state legislature had substituted substituted substituted sub sub- the electric chair as the legal method ot of putting criminals to death must be ho rebuilt This is necessitated by the fact tact that Mack flack Woolen Wooten r a negro who murdered D D. H. H Williams Willams prominent prominent prominent nent Atlanta lumber dealer Was Indicted for tor murder before the gallows gallows gallows gal gal- lows was abolished now and-now he has hilS been sentenced to die from the noose The murder was committed on December 30 19 1922 2 but Wooten was not apprehended until two years ears later
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