Delk to Hang July 30

Old Taylor Delk, the notorious villain who was the inspiration, the head and front of Sheriff Gwen's assignation , has been again found guilty of murder, and on last Thursday in Pike Superior court he was sentenced to be hanged July 30.

It is said that Attorney Harden will ask for a new trial and in case his motion is denied will carry the case again to the Supreme Court.

This may be true.  Mr. Harden may exhaust his ingenuity and his energy but until justice becomes one of the lost arts in law such infamous assassins will be in danger, and the faith we have in mankind impels us to watch with interest the coils and the toils of justice as they are tightening around this arch fiend.

Jackson Argus - Week of June 18, 1897

Submitted by Don Bankston