Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — MURDERESS DIES IN CHAIR [ARTICLE]

MURDERESS DIES IN CHAIR

Virginia Ghristian, Colored, Electrocuted at Richmond, Va., for Murder of Mrs. Ida V. Belote. Richmond, Va., Aug. 16.—Virginia Christian, the negress who killed Mrs. Ida Virginia Belote at Hampton, Va., paid the penalty for her crime in the electric chair in the state prison early today. W. G. Anderson, an attorney representing a number of Chicago people, had a conference with Governor Mann yesterday, in which he sought to have the electrocution postponed until the woman could be examined by an alienist, but the governor declared that he had every assurance that she was Bane and refused to interfere. The woman had been respited three times to enable the state officers to inquire into detail of the crime, governor Mann wrote to the Judge and :he commonwealth’s attorney of Elizabeth City county for their views and recommendations and was informed :hat there was nothing in the case which justified clemency.