Toby Willilams
Wharton Spectator May 24, 1918TOBY WILLIAMS TO HANG JULY 19
Negro Who Murdered Woman of His Race at Egypt Last Year Sentenced Last Monday
Toby Williams, who shot to death a woman of his race on one of G.H. Northington, Sr’s places near Egypt last year, was convicted at the last term of district court of murder in the first degree and a verdict of death returned by the jury in the case. His attorneys appealed to the higher court, but that court affirmed the verdict of the lower court, and on Monday Judge Sam’l J. Styles passed sentence upon Williams, naming Friday July 19th as the day on which he shall forfeit his life for the satisfaction of the law.
Williams’ crime was a a most brutal one. He had been living with a woman whose husband was in the penitentiary, and she had grown tired of cooking for him and told him she was through. He brooded over her decision, got a pistol, rode up to where she was plowing in a field and shot her through three times as she pleaded for mercy. As she fell, shot through the head, the slayer said, “If you don’t cook for me, you won’t cook for nobody else.”
This article/obituary from a copy of the one appearing in The Journal Spectator May 24, 1918. Transcribed by Janet Barrett Hobizal.
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