Talbot-Marion-Taylor County GaArchives News.....Chair Escaped by Currington October 8, 1925
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The Butler Herald October 8, 1925
CONDEMNED TALBOT COUNTY MAN WILL NOT DIE OCTOBER 16 AS NEW TRIAL HEARING IS 
CONTINUED

Columbus, Oct 4- R. G. Currington, convicted in Talbot superior court last 
month of the murder of his brother, H. H. Currington, will not be electrocuted 
October 16, it being announced Saturday that Judge C. Frank McLaughlin has 
continued the hearin on motion for a new trial, which was scheduled to be held 
in Columbus Saturday. 
The continuance was granted upon request of counsel for the condemned man, it 
being stated that the amended motion was not ready. 
The hearing, under Judge McLaughlin's new order, is scheduled to be held 
October 17, the day after execution date. The order continuing the hearing 
autmatically stayed the execution.
Currington is in the Muscogee county jail, having been carried there a few 
days after he was convicted in Talbotton.

Additional Comments:
R G Currington is Robert Griggs Currington
H H Currington is Henry Harrison Currington

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