MURDER OF NEGRO PEONS.
PLANTER FOUND GUILTY. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.50 p.m.) NEW YORKL, April 8. John Williams, a plantation owner in Georgia, charged with the murder of several negroes alleged to have been employed on his plantation under the peonage system, was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. i —
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17752, 11 April 1921, Page 5
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