REPRIEVE OF NEGROES
NEW YORK, April 7. The death sentences imposed on Rosa Lee Ingram, aired 40, a negress and her two sons. Wallace, aeed 16, and Sammy, aged 14, for killing a white man, were computed to life imprisonment at Americus, Georgia, yesterday. ' The Judge ruled that the accused had been convicted on circumstantial evidence only and that this had permitted him '\o set aside the death penalty. The case atracted wide attention and prompted appeals on behalf of the negroes to the Governor of Georgia and President Truman. Evidence at the trial was that the Ingrams confessed to having, on November 4, 1947, beaten to death John Ethron Stratford, aged 66, a share cropper, during an argument about damage to a cornfield by a mule owned by the Ingrams. A white jury convicted the Ingrams of murder in the first degree, without circumstances to warrant mercy.
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Grey River Argus, 10 April 1948, Page 3
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