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Description: Pat Kearney is Pardoned - Slayer of Wyness;
Colonial Dames Meet
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Madison Co. Library, Huntsville, AL
Page/Column: Page 1, Column 4; Page 2, Column 2
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PAT KEARNEY IS PARDONED
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Slayer of Wyness Is Given His Liberty by Governor
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ATLANTA, Ga. May 5.—Governor Candler has signed a pardon which gives liberty to Patrick Kearney, the Savannah man who killed J. W. Wyness, in that city, in 1896.
Pat Kearney was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The sensational trial which ended in the conviction of Kearney was eclipsed by the subsequent proceedings in which another jury, determining the suit of J. W. Wyness’ widow for the payment of her husband’s insurance policy, declared the killing was not murder, but the result of accident. Thus two juries passed on the facts in the case. Under the verdict of the first jury Kearney was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, while the verdict of the second jury held the shooting to be accidental.
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Colonial Dames Meet
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SAVANNAH, May 5.—The Georgia society of the Colonial Dames of America are in annual convention at the DeSoto. Mrs. J. J. Wilder was elected president.