The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24
GEORGIA OPPOSES
ITS EXECUTIONS
State Working to Have
} Capital Punishment
Entirely Banned
BOYS DEATH IS CAUSE
Now State Contemplates With
Horror Impending Execu-
ton of a Woman

' ATLANTA. Ga.-The shock'which
attended the recent execution here
~ Frank B. DuPre, n mere boy, for
the murder OF private detective
IA being followed In Atlanta and the
entire state, not TO mention neigh
boring states, with concerted drives
on capital punishment.
The reason is not that DuPre was
hargcd--not that particularly--but
conters around the fact that In the
Fulton county jail here a woman Is
confined under sentence of death
f1r the murder OF her husband.
There are a great many persons
lu Atlanta who state their Convic-
ton that Mrs. Cora Lou Ninsun, the
woman In question, meritcd the sem
fence. despite the fact that the at
toruey for the state declined 10 ask
f0r hanging. They all, however.
express horror that a woman Is
about To- go 10 her death at The
bidding Of the state of Georgia.
Georgia. chIyalrous state of the
"oll south" IS not clean OF female
executions. II Mrs. Niuson goes to
her death on the scaffold she will
be- troading the path already made
By two other white women and
NIt'H a'l uPt'S Nu' HVN dSluS iot an
other
In 1906, Wilkes county Georgia,
sent Polly Barclay to the sCaffold for
the murder of her husband and in
1873 Susan Eberhardt was hanged
at Preston for the murder Of her
swccthearts wife. Mrs. ' Enoch F.
Spann.
Narcissi Cowart was sentenced
20 death in 1883 for stabbing to
death her glrlhood chum because
Attic latter had dared to dance with
)Mrs COwart's husband Of few
We sg. Her sentence was COM
mltcd TO life imprisonment when
the governor found that Mrs. Cow
art was 10 give birth to n child. and
30 years later she was pardoned.
When DuPrc was captured in De-
tr0.t and returned to Atlanta he
admitted his guilt so readily that
he was termed braZen. Sentence
Of death was quickly passed and,
although attorneys made a splen-
did fight, he was executed. Mrs G.
T. Ozburn Of Atlanta intel ested her
self In the boys troubles and fought
10 the end for a Communication of
the sentence. She accompanied Du-
Pre- 20 the gallows and, Just before
he shot into eternity, Mira O2burn
H. Il on the floor of the death
chamter and prayed.
Now Mrs. Ozhurn, who collected
great amount OF evidence on
which Mrs. Vinson was tried. is
fighting for a change in the Georgia
statutes that will make IL impossl-
bic for anyone ever to be legally
hanged again. Hundreds persons
already have pledged their support
Is Mrs. Ozburn Some expressions
g. sympathy with the cause come
from Alabama, where highway
robbery is a capital offense, and
some from Tennessee and South
Carolina. whore electric chairs
have been snufflng out lives swiftly
In the last year.
In Louisiana six men are under
sentence OF death.
In Florida Aubrey Nichols Is
under sentence OF death for
C iminal assault on a white woman
az DeLaud. His attorneys now are
fighting desperately to save his life
and a new trial probably will be
.lhe outcome OF the battle. Nichols
IS plainly not Of normal intelli-
eence.
Tho south's great economic ques-
tion continues TO be-va great eco
nomic question. The wCiter recently
overheard n conversation between
two Georgians OF many years stand
Ing, In which they pointed out that
counties in this state which for
merly raised $4,000 to 10000 bales
OF cotton annually now are raising
less than a thousand. The answer?
Bo, weevil!
These same Georgiane also
pointed out that persons who talk
crop changes and livestock TO make
up for the deficiency in cotton are
not staring the facts squarely in
the face.
Suppose Georglans raise cotton
or pIgs?" they asked. what then?
They cant go to town with a
wagon load of hogs or a few steers
ana cash them in--and they must
have cash. II takes a carload Of
stock or a carload OF grain to get
money in the south.
When cotton flourished here a
planter took n few bales 10 town,
dumped 1t at the gin or at some
other dealers warehouse and put
his check in his pocket No dick
erirg. No qulbbling. He got the
market price any time he wanted
cash.
There never was a section so
dependent on one crop as the south
was on cotton. 1t was cold CASH
Buffalo Meat May BE