Mrs. King Weeps As Execution of Her Husband Set for Dec. 5, 1924

Mrs. King Weeps Over Fate of Her Husband

By the Associated Press

Asheville, Dec. 2—“Everything has been said already.” This statement was sobbed out to a reporter this afternoon by Mrs. Mortimer N. King, whose husband will die in the South Carolina’s electric chair Friday for the slaying of Major S.H. McLeary of the United States army.

Mrs. King resides with relatives at Canton near here. She has one child, a baby boy, and she says that she will now live for him and hopes to be able to bring him up to be a good citizen and a Christian. “If he,” she said, referring to her husband, “had been a regular attendant at church and Sunday school services, this would not have taken place.”

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1924

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