Show WOMAN AND HER LOVER SENTENCED TO HANG reading PA may 2 mrs kate ed wards and samuel greason have been sentenced lo 10 death the woman was pale and nervous she ii the mother of five children her babe that was bom in jail waa left in the cell the mother is dark skinned so is the little girl alma and mrs edwards ays tays t that tha child is white like its father who was murdered bome fome time ago the allegation was that john inwards suspected criminal intimacy between his wife and greason and he had threatened to kill her it the unborn child proved to be black edwards was killed one night while asleep on his porch and his body was thrown a cistern the wife and her alleged paramour greason were convicted of tho crime the colored man helped her buy shoes and clothia for her litho ones in winter when she had no money both were sentenced to be liangco at time as governor stone may appoint mary edwards aged 15 the principal witness against her mother and ghei son was not in court she was one ot the defendants but was later discharged from custody the colored men w 0 were held as suspects were also discharged edwards was a laborer aal worked in a quarry near stouchsburg |