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    1. don't want to be hanged
    2. Betty Sellers
    3. November 26, 1885 Thursday Dont Want To Be Hanged Fowler who cruelly murdered his niece, Lydia Burnett, a beautiful young girl, eighteen years of age, near Boxville, Union County, Ky; August 16, for refusing his hand in marriage, and who was convicted of the crime in the September term of Circuit Court of Union County, and sentenced to be hanged at Morganfield, on Friday next, November 27, has been granted a respite by the Governor, and his case will go before the Court of Appeals on Saturday. Fowler asks to have his sentence changed to imprisonment for life. Betty Sellers

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