Word: laurels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Troy Hawkins, 32, the wife of a Laurel, Miss. postal worker, was up most of the night with her small daughter, who was ill. It was 4 a.m. when Mrs. Hawkins finally snapped off the light and dozed off with her arm around her daughter. She was awakened by a man crawling up to the bed in the darkness. According to her testimony, after threatening to "cut your goddamed throat if you holler," the intruder raped her and fled...
...Communists were in control of Willie McGee's defense, and they submitted a new and ugly accusation: McGee had been intimate with the woman for several years and had been framed because he tried to break off the relationship. In the small (pop. 20,000) town of Laurel, there was utterly no evidence of such a relationship; and a physician had testified that Mrs. Hawkins had been raped. Willie McGee was again sentenced to death. The Mississippi supreme court, calling the charges against Mrs. Hawkins a "revolting insinuation and plainly not supported," denied a third appeal. Willie McGee...
Willie McGee had received two reprieves from Supreme Court Justices, but now the court turned him down. He shuffled into the same courtroom in Laurel where he was first tried, and sat down in Mississippi's portable electric chair. The powerful generator that supplied lethal current to the chair whined away. Within a few minutes, Willie McGee was dead...
...year old Negro, three times convicted and condemned in a case that attracted world-wide attention, was taken to Laurel, Mississippi...
Another Derby candidate, Mrs. Nora Mikell's Repetoire, winner of Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, stayed well up on the list of top three-year-old colts by winning the $23,025 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel race track. Repetoire, carrying a top-weighted 119 Ibs., ran the mile-and-a-sixteenth...