Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1905 — MRS. EDWARDS GETS A REPRIEVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. EDWARDS GETS A REPRIEVE

Pennsylvania’s Doable Execution Is Stayed by Board of Pardons. On recommendation of the board of pardons, Gov. Pennypaeker of Pennsylvania 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 Mis. Edwards’ husband in 1901. The case of Greason will now be taken to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and if that tribunal refuses to reopen the ease the attorneys for Mrs. Edwards and Greason

will have to appear before the board of pardons next month. Greason's ease has been in the Supreme Court six times, and twice before the hoard of pardons. The death warrant has been read to him ten times. Mrs. Edwards’ case has never been in the Supreme Court, but the hoard of pardons has twice refused lo commute her sentence.

MRS. KATE EDWARDS.