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Judge Recommends Mercy for Austin Carter, Sentenced to Electric Chair, Dec. 2, 1924

Recommends Mercy for Austin Carter

Danville, Va., Dec. 1—Judge T.D. Bryon has recommended commutation on the sentence of W. Austin Carter, former Danville insurance man, under sentence to die in the electric chair at Raleigh tomorrow, Powell Glidewell, attorney for Carter, told the Danville Bee over long-distance telephone this morning. Judge Bryson presided at the trial of Carter.

From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, December 1, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068271/1924-12-01/ed-1/seq-1/#words=DECEMBER+1%2C+1924

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