Butts-Fulton County GaArchives News.....ALEX CARR – WILL MYERS -  TO THE GALLOWS January 4 1895
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Jackson Argus – Week of January 4, 1895
Will  Myers and Alex Car – Sentenced to Hang

In the superior court at Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, Alex Carr, the alleged 
demented slayer of Captain King, and Will Myers, convicted of the almost 
unaccountable murder of Forest Crowley, were sentenced to be hanged on Friday, 
February 8th, on the second Friday of the second month in the new year.

In the instance of Alex Carr, who has changed in appearance only for the worse, 
the interest was not very manifest.  It was Myers, the boy murderer, who drew 
the attention of the crowd.

Alex Car, bending forward until his head rested almost upon his knees, sat 
unmoved and listless throughout the delivery of the sentence.  Not a sign of 
mental soundness was to be noticed.  Will Myers, young and handsome, unbroken 
by the ordeals through which he has passed, sat upright, looking steadily at 
the judge.  Sometimes it was a look that was full of vindictiveness; again it 
was that of assumed carelessness, and again indicative of sarcasm or scorn.

Not until the very last did Myers show the least sign of tears, and then they 
were not tears of penitence, but rather shed in sympathy with those of his 
loving parents, who sat by him during the sentence, and when the awful doom was 
announced by Judge Clark.




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