Show IN THE NICK KICK OF TIME arrival of an executive order granting a reprieve or respite alter after the black cap had bad been drawn over the head and the noose adjusted about the neck of the condemned individual is a climax that has been wrought up times unnumbered by the writers of third rate sensational fiction action but a genuine case of the kind happened in real life recently in the state of georgia A telegram from atlanta says that a man named leggett was to hang at Reids reidsville ville farnall county that state on friday of last week for murder the governor him thursday Reids reidsville ville Is forty five nau miles from a railroad or telegraph station leggetts leggette Leg getts lawyers started horseback with the respite thursday afternoon and arrived at Reids reidsville ville after the noose had bad been placed a ek ed about abou t leggetts leggette Leg getts neck and the 91 black c cap drawn over his face the sheriff was preparing to pull the trap when the lawyer arrived and waving the paper in the air stop stopped ed the execution and saved his clients neck if as hasteen has been said the most distressing feature of death is the dread of and preparation for it leggette leggetts Lep Leg getts escape was too narrow to save him from the worst part of his impending fate |