Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1898 — Sentenced for 209 Years. [ARTICLE]

Sentenced for 209 Years.

Williston Palmer is the name of a white man against whom there are sentences of 209 years In the Georgia penitentiary. Palmer was origlmilly sent up /or eleven years from South Georgia for burglary. Shortly afterward, while working In the mines of Dade County, he attempted with other convicts to eseapt', and In the melee that followed he killed two of the guards. He was tried some time ago for the killing of the first guard and got ninety-nine years. He was taen put on trial for the killing of the other man and got ninety-nine years more.