Negroes Doomed to
Chair Are Given a Respite
Raleigh, Nov. 20—Doomed to die in the electric chair and
only three more days before the date of their electrocution, Ralph and Sinclair
Connor, negro brothers, Tuesday received the joyful news from Warren Busbee
that they had been granted an appeal to the Supreme Court. The two men will at
least get a stay of judgment pending the outcome of their case in the higher
court.
The brothers were to have been electrocuted at 10:30 o’clock
tomorrow morning, and preparations had been made for their death by Warren
Busbee and his helpers at the State Prison. As a precautionary measure Warden
Busbee Tuesday morning inquired of the clerk of court in Iredell county, where
the negroes were convicted, and received the information that an appeal had
been granted. He then told the condemned prisoners.
The Connor brothers were convicted and condemned to die at
the October term of Iredell Superior Court for the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Lloyd Cleaningen of Mooresville. The crime occurred at Morrow’s School on
Sunday, August 9.
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