Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — MRS. EDWARDS IS GIVEN A RESPITE [ARTICLE]

MRS. EDWARDS IS GIVEN A RESPITE

Governor Pennypacker Withdraws Death Warrants in Case of Woman and Negro. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 10.—On recommendation of the board of pardons Governor Pennypacker withdrew the death warrants in the case of Mrs. Kate Edwards, the white woman, and Samuel Greason, the negro, who were under sentence to hang together in the Berks county jail at Reading, for the murder of Mrs. Edward’s husband in 1901. The case of Greason will now be again taken to the Pennsylvania supreme court and if that tribunal refuses to reopen the case the attorneys for Mrs. Edwards and Greason will have to appear before the board of pardons next month.