The age-herald., 1898-03-16
THE FATE OF MRS, MOBILES Lies With the Georgia Board of
 PardonS. HARD-FOUGHT LEGAL BATTLE For the Fifth and Last Time the Judge Who First Tried the Case Has Passed the
 Death Sentence.
Special to The Age-Herald.


 Atlanta, Ga. March 15.-Mrs. Elizabeth Mobiles, white, 50 years of age. will hang at Jeffersonvllle. Twiggs county, Ga, March 25, between the hours of 12 and o'clock in the afternoon, unless the Georgia state board of pardons commute the sentence.
 An application for pardon is before the board, and the fate of the old woman de- bends absolutely upon the action taken In the courts the case has run its pace. It has been fought, and stubbornly so. through every channel known in criminal litigation, and only two months ago re- verted to it's original source and the judge who passed the sentence of death two and half years ago again and for the fifth and last time declared that the defendant must hang, and March 20 was set as the day of execution. In the great legal battle for Mrs. Noble's life the case in its diff ferent phases has been before the state su- prme court three times and before the United States supreme court twice.
 During all the long, dreary months the old woman has passed her time in a Macon, Ga, cell, apparently oblivious of her fate and indifferent to the efforts being made in her behalf efforts made in hundreds of instances by people whom she never heard of and certainly never saw. Attorney liar ris of Macon, who has conducted the de- fense, has been untiring in his labors to save his client and an organization of wo- men in Georgia has furnished the funds required in the litigation.
 But alone from the fact that the defend ant or one of the defendants in this capi- tai case is a woman does it appeal to hu- man interest. The crime for which Mrs. Nobles is sentenced to hang was the mur- der of her husband A brutally planned crime it was, but there are two other de- fendants One Gus Fambes, a negro man, actually committed the crime. He con fessed to have struck the fatal blow, and yet, though the murder of old man Nobles was committed two years and a half ago, Fambles is yet living and will live legally as long as his employer in the commission of the crime is permitted by law to live.
 If Mrs. Nobles is executed, Gus Fambles will die on the same galows. If Mrs. No bls is given a life sentence, Gus Fambles will be given a life sentence. Fambles was helper on the Nobles farm. He was employed by Mrs. Nobles to kill Mr. Nobles. Mrs. Nobles planned the murder, sent her husband to the spot where Fambles was hidden with the bludgeon, and then hid the body and covered the blood stains on the ground. The only eXtenuating circum- stance is that Mrs. Nobles is a woman, and the negro criminal has enjoyed two and a half years of life in consequence The other party to the crime, Gus Fambles' wife, is now serving a life sentence.
 Mrs. Nobles and Fambles have been con- fined in the Macon jail instead of the Twiggs county jail as a. precaution against mob violence. When the crime was com mitted public feeling was strong against the defendants, and ttime has not served to change that feeling. Several times guards have been placed around Bibb jail, rumors reaching Macon that would-be lynchers were planning the summary exc cution of the old woman and her negro confederate.