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THE BAINBR1DGE POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Renewal of the application for a
pardon for Milton Rawlings, the last
of the Rawlings boys now in the peni
tentiary and who were the central
figures in one of Georgia's most cele
brated murder cases, will be made
within the next few days, according
to announcement by his counsel, At-
on the Williams farm, and or-|tomey John R. Cooper, of Macon,
d that he not be allowed to see The Georgia PrUon CommUsion has
twice favorably recommended Raw
lins for pardon, but so far no Gover-
_ _ j nor before whom the application ,has
e trials in Covington. “ K* come, has seen fit to approve the rec-
:he? nn already has denied Wll- ommendat!on . Attorney Cooper is
s a new trial and his case is to. certain that t h e p r j gon Commission
ibefore the State Supreme Court. | again intends to make the recommen .
0 , U .dation and he is confident that Gov-
orse sense to rvescue I ernor Hardwick will grant the par-
i don.
pringfield, 111., July 30.—Tired and
yde manning
DENIED RETRIAL
SlTOItS FORBIDDEN NEGRO,
CONVICTED IN PEON
AGE CASE.
•catur, Ga., July 30.—The appeal
j neW trial for Clyde S. Manning,
f witness for the State, against
employer, John S. Williams, was
j e d in Superior Court here today
Judge John B. Hutcheson, whj
k cognizance of reports that at-
pts had been made to make the
change his statements regard-
the alleged murder of negro farm
Milton Rawlins Application
For Pardon will be Renewed
ATTORNEY COOPER WILL MAKE
PLEA FOR LAST FIGURE
IN CELEBRATED MUR
DER CASE
dors >n future.
loth Manning and Williams were
tencetl to life imprisonment at sep-
lusted from hauling a dray wagon I
The plea is to be based on the
many a day, Old Dobbin"''dropped j f round that Milton Rawlins is entire -
weary bones in a heap across a! *!“"* °J Participation in the
he park drive here and refused to T k,11,n K of the Carter children in
kthe anv more. Stretched in full| Lowndes count >' ln Jul V' 1905
th across the drive, he blocked
■fic via road he had selected for
demise.
ing outside the - city limits,
authorities refused to remove the
s and it remained there three
Then spurred by the decompo-
»n of the quadruped’s body, citi-
thc vicinity prevailed upon the
er of the drayage concern to re-
the obstruction and give it
ier burial. Traffic has been re
ed as usual in the park.
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Widespread Interest in Case
The history of the Rawlins case is
familiar not only to Georgians, but
its progress was watched throughout
the greater part of the United States.
It was before the Supreme Court of
Georgia three times and the Supreme
Court of the United States twice, the
judgment of the lower courts being
affirmed in every instance, J. G. Raw
lins, the father of the three boys, pay
ing the penalty for his crime with his
life. The death sentences passed on
Milton and Jesse were later com
muted to life imprisonment, which
penalty had already been imposed on
Leonard and on the 10th day of No
vember, 1911, Hoke Smith, then Gov
ernor of Georgia, granted a full par
don to Leonard and Jesse, both of
whom it is claimed have made good
citizens since being given their free
dom and are now working a farm
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Where Cool Breezes Blow
Every Sunday, Commencing July 3rd,
SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAIN
Via.
Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway
GOING RETURNING
Leave Arrive
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given them by their grandfather in
Coffee county and are making a living
for their widowed mother.
J. G. Rawlins and his three sons,
Milton, aged 19; Leonard, aged 18,
and James, aged, 16, were convicted in
the Lowndes county Superior Court
in July, 1905, of the murder of the
Carter children, the father and two
sons, Milton mid Jesse, being sen
tenced to death and Leonard to life
imprisonment. The case was then ap
pealed to the Supreme Court of Geor
gia and that court on November 8,
1905, affirmed the court below. Then
the case was enrried to the Supreme
Court of the United States on a writ
of error on the ground that no preach
ers, doctors, railroad men, dentists or
lawyers were on the jury that tried
them. The Georgia Supreme Court
was affirmed on April 16, 1906, by the
highest court in the nation. Ail of
the defendants were then sentenced
again to be hanged, except Leonard.
Extraordinary Motion Made
An extraordinary motion was then
made on the ground that the father,
J. G. Rawlins, had made a full and
complete confession exonerating his
boys and stating that he had hired Alf
Moore, a negro, and was to pay him
$110 to kill old man Carter, but this
confession came too late to do the
boys an good in the courts of the
State, and the Supreme court of Geor
gia, again affirmed the court below
on July 27, 1906. All were again
sentenced to death except Leonard
Rawlins.
Then their counsel made a motion to
set aside the verdict in the courts be
low on the ground that the record
failed to show or the minutes of the
court that they were present or their
counsel was present, and asked if they
had anything to say why sentence
of death should not be pronounced
upon them. This motion was over
ruled by the trial judge and the case
again went to the Supreme Court of
Georgia for the third time, the lower
court being affirmed on the 28th day
of November, 1906. From this decision
the case went to the Federal courts,
a petition for a writ of habeas corpus
being presented to Judge Speer, who
declined it and an appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court of the United
States upon the ground that the record
failed to show the presence of the
defendants in court when sentence
was pronounced. Judge Speer was
affirmed on November 6, 1900. The
father and two sons were again sen
tenced to die.
Then came the application for com
mutation of sentence, which was de
nied as to J. G. Rawlins, but commuta
tion was granted to Milton and Jesse
by Governor J. M. Terrell. J. G.
Rawlins was hanged in December,
1906.
On November 15, 1911, Governor
Smith granted a full pardon to Jesse
and Leonard, but declined to show
the same clemency to Milton, the old
est of the three.
Milton Rawlins is now serving on
the Mitchell county chain gang. He
is said to be a model prisoner.
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Letter in Regard to
S. W. Freeman’s Card
Editor Searchlight:
Mr. W. S. Freeman’s card last week
on woman is a potable one and worthy
on commendation. His closing para
graph is a beautiful tribute to woman
and wonderfully well expressed.
But Mr. Freeman quoted in that
connection Shakespeare as being the
author the verse, “Oh, woman in the
hour of ease,” etc., in which he is
error. Sir Walter Scott is the
author of that beautiful verse, which
occurs in “Marmion," and as follows:
“O woman! in our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And Variable as the shade
By the ligh quiveriflg aspens made;
When pain and anguish wring the
brow,
A ministering angel thou.”
From this I gather that Scott
charges man with those fickle quali
ties Mr. Freeman had been talking
about—uncertain, coy, hard to please
and variable, but notwithstanding,
when he gets stricken with pain it is
woman that is the “ministering an
gel.”
! gel.” It is suffering that makes the
woman want to minister, and causes
her to forget and overlook the prior
variableness in her man.
Mr. Freeman is always read with
interest, and his articles are looked
forward to each .week, rto matter
what his subject, as he is versatile,
and what is said is not in criticism but
in aid of his theme.
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