Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — TAFT SAVES COLORED WOMAN [ARTICLE]

TAFT SAVES COLORED WOMAN

President for Third Time Reprieves Murderess From Death on •he Gallows. Washington, Aug. 13. —Mattie Lomax will not be hanged next Monday for the murder of her husband ifa this rtty in December, 1910. President Taft has signed a commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, acting on tbe recommendation of the attorney general. - Tbe president has three times reprieved the woman from death on the gallows. ,