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Sea Coast Echo, April 26, 1929
SILAS RICHARDSON, MURDERER TO PAY PENALTY WITH LIFE Will be Hung in Hancock County Jail at Noon Today Execution to be private.
Bay St. Louis, the seat of Hancock county, will be the scene of a legal execution this Friday noon. Which will be within the prison walls and in the presence of a few officials, physicians and newspapermen.
Silas Richardson, negro, is to pay penalty for the murder of John Dambrino who was killed with a piston shot in the Bay St. Louis city jail last August 14.
It will be remembered that Mark Oliver, city chief of police had arrested Richardson for alleged robbery of an automobile. The prisoner was not searched when arrested and it later developed that he was armed with a formidable guy, which he brought into action when attempting to escape and resulting in seriously wounding Chief Oliver and instantly killing Dambrino, who was in his path of exit.
Richardson was brought to Bay St. Louis this week from the hinds county jail where he was held for safekeeping the past several weeks.
An appeal to the State Supreme court was recently denied, and after all pleas had been exhausted, April 26 set as the date of the execution.
Sheriff Jones and deputies report everything in readiness for the execution which will take place as scheduled unless unforeseen fate or executive clemency intervenes.
Sea Coast Echo, May 3, 1929
NEITHER GUILT NOR INNOCENSE IS CLAIMED BY RICHARDSON
Bay St. Louis Negro is Hanged at Bay St. Louis Friday for The Murder of John Dambrino - Goes to His Death Calmly - Prays As He Stands on Scafford.
The first hanging in twenty years took place in Bay St. Louis at the Hancock County jail Friday morning when Silas Richardson was hanged at 10:15 and at 10:29 was declared dead and was removed from the hangman’s knot at 10:35. He was executed as a result of the sentence passed upon him by the circuit court, sustained by the State Supreme court, for the murder August 14 of John Dambrino whom he shot at the city jail, wounding at the same time Chief of Police Mark Oliver of B,ay St. Louis.
A crowd of approximately half a thousand people gathered around the jail before 10 o’clock, but only about 35 consisting of hancock County officials , phsicians, members of the clergy, press representatives and city and county police authorities of neighboring towns were permitted inside the jail corriders where they could witness the execution.
Sheriff J. C. Jones sprang the trap that sent Richardson’s body dangling at the end of the rope after Deputy Sheriff Ladnes Necaise and Lemuel Miller assisted by Tom Mallini had tied his hands and feet and placed over his head the black cap.