SENTENCE ON WILSON
Commutation Probable MONTGOMERY (Alabama), September 24. The Governor of Alabama /Mr James Folsom) said today that he probably would commute the death sentence of a negro convicted of robbing an elderly white widow of one dollar 95 cents. Mr Folsom set the clemency hearing for Jimmy Wilson, an illiterate 55-year-old farmhand, for Friday morning in his office. The governor had said he would hold the hearing on Thursday, but he delayed it a day to make sure his legal adviser (Mr E. C. Boswell) was in town. The Governor said he had set the clemency hearing a month earlier than normal procedure m order to put an end to this “international hullabaloo.” Thousands of letters have poured into his office demanding that Wilson’s sentence be commuted.
Army Instructors Leave Iraq.— The Iraqi Government has terminated the services of a 50-man team of British servicemen, on loan to the Iraqi forces, and given them one month to pack up and leave, it was learned today. The decision brings to an end the scheme under which British instructors were lent to Iraq.—Bagdad, September 24.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28701, 26 September 1958, Page 9
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