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Sea Coast Ech, September 28, 1928
NUMEROUS CASES ARE HENDLED AT SEPT. TERM CIRCUIT COURT
...The murder trial, that of Silas Richardson, negro, who shot and killed John Dambrino
and wounded chief of police Mark Oliver as he shot his way to freedon from the Bay St. Louis city jail August 14, was tried Wednesday and Thursday, September 19 and 20, and Richardson was found guilty by the jury. Saturday morning Judge White sentenced Richardson to death and ordered him to ge hanged October 22....
HANGIFNG OF NEGRO TO BE IN PRIVATE
Board of Supervisors Nest Monday will Pass on Details - Few Admitted
Exactly one month and day will have elapsed from his day of fateful sentence, when Silas Richarsdson, convicted Bay St. Louis negro of the killing of John Dambrino, will hand on Monday, October 22nd.
The law fixed the time, one month from the date of sentence, or over. Whether Richaredson will be executed inside the walls of the county jail or on a specially constructed gallows built within walls and on the outside of the jail, has not been decided.
The fact that these details are left to the board of supervisors when that body will convene on Monday next, October 1 st, it will deliberate and decide on this matter.
There is a trap built in the county jail, over the south-eastern corner, used once for an execution, but while this has been dismantled in a measure, it can, if desired, be again brought into reqkuisition. At what cost, delay and inconvenience is not known. On a previous execution the county built a gallows, and as all executions in Mississippi are, under law, private, a huge frnce was built to shut out the public gaze. Only public officials, physicians and newspaper men, selected, are admitted within the confins of the gallows.
Sea Coast Echo, March 29, 1929
RICHARDSON TO HANG ON APRIL 26, DECISION OF LOWER COURT CONFIRM’D
Three Dissent As Sentence of Hancock County Court Is Upheld - Attorneys Will Seek New Hearing
The death sentence of Silas Richardson, Bay St. Louis negro, convicted by the Hancock county circuit court for the murder of John Dambrino, was confirmed Monday in the state supreme court and April 26 was the date set for the hanging
Three judges of the state supreme court, Etheridge, Griffith and Anderson were dissenting judges in the decision, thus making the division of the court divided in half, it is understood that this an en banc decision, where equal division of the court three judges for