Letter Frank Henderson Left Says His Sentence Was Unjust, Oct. 10, 1921

An Unjust Sentence Electrocuted Man Says

Raleigh, Oct. 10—Leaving a letter captioned “an unjust sentence” with a copy of a letter from a physician at Madison, N.C., declaring that Mrs. Henderson was a sufferer from “apthcthalica goiter,” Frank Henderson was electrocuted at the State prison here this morning for the alleged murder of his wife.

“Good bye, Mr. Warden. I have absolutely no hard feelings toward you,” was Henderson’s only comment as prison attaches strapped him into the chair.

In his statement, Henderson admitted he and his wife quarreled the night she was alleged to have been choked to death, and said he choked her, but he declared she died on the front porch of their home at Madison after an attack of the malady from which he declared she had been suffering.

From The Charlotte News, Oct. 10, 1921