The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-02-28
PLEASED WITH DELAY
Hardly Probable That Governor
Win Commute Morrison's Sen
tcnce His Bad Record.

tence His Bad Record.
Raleigh News and Observer, oath.
That Walter Morrison, the re-
gro rapist ofRobeson county, will
be electrocuted on March ID if
the electrocution machinery is
all here and assemb eds hard
~ to be doubteo, for while there
has been talk Of petitions for the
communication Of Morrison's SEN
tence there has been o formal ap
plication made to the Governor.
Speaking yesterday of the
case Governor Kitchin said that
there had been no application to
him for communication, though two
or three gentlemen had spoken to |
him and four had written him
expressing the hope that Morri- |
sons sentence would be commut-
edy three Of the writers referred
to letter from a MIR. Stokes,
which he had rot received. He
wrote to these that he had raceil
"a no communication from Mr..
Stokes and inclosed the rules for
applications for executive elem
ency, suggesting to one that these
lie sent to Mr. Stokes, and say
ing that he would give considera-
ton to any application made him.
Governor Aitchin says that
while the repeated delays in the
execution Of the death penalty
have created great sympathy for
Morrison he understands every
delay has been highly satisfacto-
ry to the prisoner, and that so
tar as he could learn there was
no general sentiment in Robson
county in behalf of Morrison
that he could recall no letter
from or conversation with any
one from Robson county asking
that Morrison escape the death
penalty. This, Governor Kitch-
in thinks, is because Robson
has been the scene of Morrison's
criminal career, and because the
people there who know OF his
terrible deed favor capital pun
ishment for brutal rape. Should
anyone desire to apply for his
pardon or Communication there
should be 10 unnecessary delay
about it, as the day of execution
is drawing near, and the machin-
cry for electrocution has all been
received at the States prison.
As to the record of Walter Nor
rison, Governor Kitchin said
that his information was that a
the April term, 1898, Morrison
paid the costs in an assault case
that at October term. 1898, he
was convicted Of an assault will
intent to commit rape and serves
term of five years in the peni
tertiary for it; thateat Novembe
term 1903 he pai0 the costs, hav
ing plead guilty to a charge O.
house-breaking;tha atTuly term
1905, he plead guilty Of larcen,
and was sentenced to IL month
on the roads-after sentence h.
broke Jail; that at Novembe
term, 1905 he was indicted fo
larceny in another case, also 70
an escape. He was captured an
put On the chain-gang to serv
the sentence Of the July tern
1905. He again escaped and wa
again captured, On the day h
was released from the chain gan
and before he got home he con
mitted the crime of rape f
which he was convicted an
sentenced to the death penalty.
The States prison authorize
have received letter from M
f. F. Davis, of Corning, N. Y
with whom they have placed tt
contract to put in the electr
chair, in which he says: Il thir
you have every thing in Raleie
now, except the electros, and
viii bring them with me. Ina
three electro cations this week
different prisons in New Yo
State, and as soon as they a
over, I will start for your place
1t will be the last of the we
before l can get there"
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