Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1922-06-25
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
BRINGS VERDICT
To HANG WOMAN
Jury Votes For Gallows as
Protest Against Woman's
Equal Rights

ATLANTA, Ga, June "a Twelve
southern men have voted to hang a
southern woman.
This is Georgia, state famous for
the chivalry of its men toward its wo-
men.
Date of her execution is set for July
%.
Good grounds exist for the state.
ment of Colonel William Schley How
ard, prominent Atlanta lawyer, that
women are. tumbling from their man
created pedestal and must pay the
same penalty for crime as men be-
Woman suffrage and invasion of
mems field in business!
He cites Georgia's well-known anti
pathy toward the suffrage movement
in interpreting the verdict in the case
CT Mrs Cora Vinson She shot and
killed her husband, DR.. w. D. Vinson,
in his Atlanta office last March.
81 have never asked a jury to send
a woman to the gallows," said Solicit
tor. General John A Boykin TO the
jury, land 1 won't begin now. There
fore I ask a verdict of guilty with a
recommendation of mercy" His re-
quest was, in effect, for life sentence
Jury Orders Death
Yet the jury returned with YER
dict of guilty without q recommends
ton for mercy. There was nothing
for Judge John D. HUMPHREYS to do
but sentence Mrs. Vinson to hang.
LAWYERS, officials and citizens were
amazed at the action of the Jurors As
such crimes 90, this was no more
shocking than scores for which wom-
en- have been freed or sent to prison.
Only once, so years ago, has white
woman been hanged in Georgia.
Col Howard, native Georgian, keen
student of public opinion, three times
q member of congress, and engaged
by DR.. WILSON'S son to aid the state
in prosecuting the young mans step
mother, played an active part in the
trial. He watched every move. Here
is his Interpretation of the causes
back of the jury's verdict:
''The men of Georgia have always
been noted for their chivalry toward
women. They have held women on
a pedestal In the past this chivalry
has been carried into our jury rooms.
1t has been almost impossible for a
jury of men to find woman guilty
OF serious crime.
But of late years." Col Howard con
tinued 1.-THE women of Georgia, like
women Of other states, have shown a
tendency to come down from the man.
created pedestal. They have demand
ness. In every way they have indi-
4 20 I,c
"Why, then, should a woman
solely on sex grounds-be accorded
anv special privilege by jury?"
Col. Towards views are partly
borne out by an expression from e. L.
Bardley, who was foreman of the Vim
son jury.
Il believe" said Bradley, "that a
woman should pay the same penalty
forlcrime as man. There have been
recently several atrOcious murders of
husbands by their wives. The women
have gotten off with light sentences,
owing to the fact that prison term
for life means the convict is eligible
for parole after three years. The jur-
ors felt it their duty to their sworn
word and the state to bring in this
verdict"
Was Premeditated
1t was established that Mrs. Vinson
killed her husband after premedita-
ton. She had persuaded him to deed
her his property. Net long ago ne ap-
piled for divorce.
The doctor was 65, his wife A. Both
had previously been married when
they went to The altar 20 years ago.
For the last six years they lived a
uuarrelsome existence, eliminating in
the divorce action brought by the doc
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