Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-11-24
FAMOUS FEUD TO
END ON GALLONS
THE RAWLINs, FATHER AND
SONS, ARE TO PAY PENALTY ON
THE GALLONS.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Valdosta, Ga, Nov. PA Methodist
conference and four hangings all with
in period of week is believed to be
too much for an ordinarily quiet town
So at least the people of Valdosta be
lieve and they would like to see one OF
the other of the attractions postponed
But the way things look at present it
appears very probable that the whole
program may be carried out accord
ing to schedule.
The scheduled executions are those
of the Rawlins, father and sons, whose
case has attracted attention through
out the country. ALI Moore, the negro
accomplice of the Rawlins, is to be
hanged next Friday. The elder Raw
Inns is 10 20 10 the gallows. three days
later, and at the end Of the same week
the two RawIins boys are under sen
tence to pay the penalty of death.
There seems to be some chance that
the Rawlins boys may obtain a respite
or Communication of sentence, but the
case of the father, already carried to
the highest tribunal in the land, ap-
pears hopeless.
The execution of the father, his sons
and their negro accomplice will mark
the end of one of the most merciless
and deadly feuds ever recorded in the
annals of this country These men were
convicted for the murder of two little
children, Bob and Annie Carter, in an
attempt to exterminate the family of
w. L. Carter.
Carter and Rawlins had been power
full revival preachers in the Methodist
church. About twenty years ago they
married into wealthy families and set
tied on adjoining plantations. The
Rawlins family comprises three boys
and two girls. Carter had one son and
three daughters
The quarrel between the two fam
lilies originally started among the chill
dren and was most trivial affair. But
the elders took it up and then began
the feud. Finally the trouble reached
the fighting stage and it was mutually
understood that trouble must ensue
whenever members of the two families
CHANGED to meet
One evening the cattle in the Carter
barn made a rumpus Bob and Annie,
two of the children, ran out to learn
the cause of the trouble. Carter had
reached the porch when he saw the
children shot down by men armed with
shotguns. Suspecting that it was but
the forerunner of the murder of the
whole family, he ran into the house
and barred the door The children had
been murdered outright To still their
dying cries the murderers had ground
their heels into the children's faces
and kicked them until their ribs were
broken. All night long the murderers
besieged the house, hoping for an OPP
portunity to kill the occupants. Mrs.
Carriers hair turned white in the night
and the rest of the family became
nervous wrecks.
On the strength of a statement made
by Moore, the negro, the crime was
charged against Rawlins and his sons,
Moore and another negro named Tur-
ner. Rawlins was in another town on
the night of the murder, but was ar
rested on Moore's claim that he had
plotted the crime Moore said the |
instructions we're to kill every member
of the family and to burn the house. |
He said he had been paid 500 and |
that he and Turner were given per
mission to keep all the money that
might be found in the building. They |
we're tried, with the result that the
elder Turner, his sons Milton and