Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-11
LOCkETT PAYS THE
PENALTY AT 4.32 A. NJ.
Negro Murderer of Five Women
Dies In Electric Chair-Pray-
ed All Night Long.
(By Associated Press)

the convicted slayer of Genev;
Hardman, and self confessed mur
derer of four other persons, al
women, died in the electric chair
prison here at 4 :32 this morning
Guards took the negro from hi:
cell in the death row at Ala ane
immediately escorted him to the
death chamber.
His face bore but a slight sigr
of emotion as his head was en-
veloped in the black cap. ......
Prison Electrician Collier turn
ed on the electric current within
Is seconds and Kimbrough was
pronounced dead at 4::32.
Two brothers of the Hardman
girl and II Lexington citizens to-
gether with eight soldiers and II
prison guards, witnessed the exc
cution.
kimbrough refused to make a
statement when taken from his
cell. He prayed continually dur
ing the night and sang hymns.
His body was buried in the
prison cemetery.
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when the death warrant was
read to the confessed four-time
murderer at 6 o'clock last night
by Warden Chiffon, he stood un-
moved and yaWned at the end.
After singing religious songs, he
laughed stoically and shouted:
"Yes, going home to Jesus to
die no more, thank God"
His only comment on the death
warrant was:
81 am ready to go, and am not
afraid to die" But his hands
trembled as he warmed they over
the little radiator near his cot.
The negro was asleep at 8
o'clock, but awakened shortly af-
ter midnight and began to pray
loudly, his voice carrying to all
parts of the prison.
Kimbrough talked freely to re-
porters present as the reading of
the warrant. He has not spent a
single happyinight since he began
his careersof crime Is years ago.
he told them. Always, he said, he.
was dissatisfied and went, from
place tosplace fearful that he
would betcoaght.' t.'-ta1a-' ~. <e..
He had no more confessions to,
make, he declared, but had reveal
ed all his crimes in the interview
Monday with the warden; at least
all sins which in any way had
harmed anyone. The smaller
sins he had confessed in his pray
erS.
The negro spent his last day
reading frequently from the Bible,
singing hymns and kneeling in
prayer. Most of the time he re-
clined on his cot. He wrote to his
father in Todd county sending a
farewell message to his people.
He ate hearty supper and after
ward smoked a cigarette for
which he asked reporter.
Kimbrodgh said he was satisti-
ed that justice had been done and
expressed appreciation to the SOL
diers who Had saved him from the
mob. He also thanked Captain
TAYLOR, of the Leitchfeld COM
pany, eight members OF which
had guarded the prison, and pre-
scented him with small testaments
which he autographed with the
words, "To remember me by" He
said he had been we'll treated by
Warden Chiffon and other Eddy
vile officials.
Kimbrough pleaded for Glenn
ency for Charles Douthitt, white,
and Hoe Hughes, colored, in ad-
joining cells in the death house,
awaiting electrocution.
Douthitt added his own plea
through the cell wall and asked
newspaper men to say for him:
"If they're going to Kill me, tell
them to go ahead and end my tor
ture.
He has seen eight men pass his
cell to the death room while
awaiting his own call to pay the
penalty for murder.
Ki1nbrough gave both Douthitt
and Hughes Bibles.
He sang Going Home to Die
No More" and "Steal Away To
Jesus" He said he had prayed
for the little Hardman girl and
her people and for everyone, in
c1uding his enemies.
Religious literature sent him by
New York and Virginia ministers
was given to him by the warden
today. Religious consolation was
extended to the negro during the
day by Adjutant Thompson, Sal
walton Army Prison Chaplain
Wootson, and the Rev. Stevenson,
negro, of Louisville.