Dave Jones Electrocuted; George Russell's Sentence Commuted to Life Imprisonment, Feb. 18, 1925

Jones is Electrocuted; Russell Goes to Prison. . . Gov. McLean Saves One Man Who Had Been Convicted of Murder

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, Feb. 18—Dave Jones, negro, today was electrocuted at the State prison for the murder of Sam Small, white farmer of Chowan County. He confessed his guilt.

George Russell, negro, who was to have been electrocuted for complicity in the same crime, was given a commutation to life imprisonment by Governor McLean.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1925

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