Whitfield-Crawford County GaArchives News.....Clemency Denied Two. March 30, 1903
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. March 30, 1903
If the recommendations made by the prison commission in the cases of John 
Perry, of Dalton, and Joe Cleveland, of Crawford county, are approved by 
Governor Terrell, both of these men will be hanged for murder on the days set 
by law for their execution.

John Perry, a white man, killed J. A. Walker, an employee of Robinson's circus 
last year as the result of a drunken row.

Joe Cleveland, of Crawford county, is sentenced to be hanged on April 17 for 
the murder of another negro.

The prison commission has declined to recommend commutation of sentence to life 
imprisonment in either of these cases, and if the governor does not interfere 
they will be executed on the dates set. 

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