1923 Appeal for Clemency Denied for Bernice Women who Killed Husband/Father

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1923 Appeal for Clemency Denied for Bernice Women who Killed Husband/Father

The Dallas Morning Star, Nov. 4, 1923
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Mother of 8 Must Spend Her Life in Prison; No Pardon

Special to The News

   NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 3  –  Despite the pathetic appeal of Mrs. Temple Sharp and 
her daughter, Mrs. Lena Lockwood, who had been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Sharp’s 
husband at Bernice, Union Parish, the two women were refused a pardon by the Pardon 
Board in its decision handed down Saturday.

   Both women are serving life sentences, having been sentenced May 2, 1919.  Mrs. 
Lockwood made an appeal to the board that her mother was not responsible for the death 
of her father and that she should be freed to return to her babies at home.  She is the 
mother of eight.  The board was unable to find sufficient cause for clemency.



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