Raleigh, Dec. 7—Sentiment and fact that their first collision in the case of Jerry Dalton, Macon county youth under sentence of death for the murder of his sweetheart and rival in love when 14 Raleigh women appeared before Governor Morrison today in an appeal for the life of the young mountaineer.
Dalton had been good to his mother and her sole support for a long time; he had made a clean record during two years of freedom in the west that followed his escape from prison; liquor influenced his mind in the commission of the crime; and life imprisonment would meet the requirements of justice—so the women argued to the governor.
But, the executive found from the records of the case, Dalton had cold-bloodedly murdered Merrell Angel and Maude Grant on a Sunday morning because the woman held Angel in greater favor than he; he had been drinking but it was evident that he was drunk and the influence of whiskey only aggravated his harbor of ill-will; he was not such a model young man because of the very Sunday of the murder he was planning a trip for the purchase of whiskey to bootleg.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 8, 1923
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