NEGRO MURDERERS.
FIVE ELECTROCUTED. A, and N.. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Advices fcom Dallas City, Texas, state that five negro murderers were executed in Texas Penitentiary by electricity. Each made a speech as he stepped into the chair. It took the motor four minutes of ghastly whirr to kill George Washington a giant coloured man and former preacher, who fiendishly killed his wife.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18630, 11 February 1924, Page 7
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