Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smyth, John J. December 16, 1910
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Virginian-Pilot December 17, 1910
Richmond, Va., Dec. 16 - Two murderers, John J. Smyth, white, of Norfolk, and Jim 
Sitlington, negro, of Rockingham county, both convicted of killing women, went to 
the electric chair in the penitentiary here today. Smyth was electrocuted first, 
and Sitlington followed shortly after. There was no hitch in either case.
Smyth, who was a bartender, killed his wife and nine-year-old daughter with a 
revolver in a drunken fury last August, and was sentenced by Judge Hanckel, of the 
corporation court of Norfolk, to die December 8, but was granted a respite until 
today by the Governor.


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