The Bars Let Down
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Title
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The Bars Let Down
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Choctaw Advocate
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Publication Place
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Butler, AL
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Publication Date
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01/03/1912
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Transcript
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Frank Richardson, the negro who was sentenced to hang on December 22nd for the murder of Messrs Cooper and Horton in Tuscaloosa, was granted an extension by Governor O'Neal for sixty days in the hope of commuting the sentence to life imprisonment. The extension and the move for a change in the verdict is granted at the wish, and made by many leading citizens of Tuscaloosa county. So much shameful and hidden meanness on the part of a certain class of white people toward the negroes has been uncovered in that county since the trial and conviction of Richardson, that great and much sympathy is now expressed in behalf of the condemned negro.
The Bars Let Down