(58) #15300 GEORGE ABSHIER; { White, Male, Criminal, Murder-Robbery, Hanged, July 18, 1930}
(59) #15301 HOWARD ROYSTON; {White, Male, Criminal, Murder-Robbery, Hanged, July 18, 1930}
Royston and Abshier Are To Hang for part in Lamar Bank Crime.
Canon City, July 18 – Howard L. Royston and George Abshier, members of the Lamar bank robbery gang, were resigned today as they faced execution tonight at the state penitentiary. Barring a remote possibility that a reprieve might be granted at the last moment, the execution will be held sometime tonight. Their only hope for deferring the death sentence lies in willingness to tell everything they may know of unlawful enterprises in which they or the Fleagle brothers, Ralph and Jake may have engaged. ( The Palisade Tribune, February 14, 1930.)
Word from the prison indicated they refused to tell officers anything concerning any crime outside of the hold up of the First National bank of Lamar in May 1928, in connection with which four men were killed. Ralph Fleagle was executed last week for his part in the Lamar robbery and Jake Fleagle is the object of a nation wide search as the fourth member of the gang. ( The Palisade Tribune, October 18, 1930.)
Canon City, Colo., July 17 – Possibility that the execution of Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshier, Lamar bank bandits, would be postponed for several days arose late today when Ralph Carr, U.S. district attorney, and a postal inspector, had been closest with the condemned pair for several hours.
Carr was understood to be trying to get the pair to "come clean," on several holdups and robberies alleged to have been perpetrated by the Fleagle brothers and of which Carr apparently believed Royston and Abshier had knowledge.
The chance that the execution of the two would be postponed was held, however, to be only remote. Reports trickling from the conference room indicated that Royston and Abshier were playing for time in a grim game in which they held the trump cards.
The executions tentatively have been fixed for tomorrow night. (The Walsenburg World, Friday, September 30, 1929.
George J. Abshier #15300 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 35703673 in Canon City, CO.
Howard Royston #15301 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 244807063 in Canon City, CO.
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(59) #15301 HOWARD ROYSTON; {White, Male, Criminal, Murder-Robbery, Hanged, July 18, 1930}
Royston and Abshier Are To Hang for part in Lamar Bank Crime.
Canon City, July 18 – Howard L. Royston and George Abshier, members of the Lamar bank robbery gang, were resigned today as they faced execution tonight at the state penitentiary. Barring a remote possibility that a reprieve might be granted at the last moment, the execution will be held sometime tonight. Their only hope for deferring the death sentence lies in willingness to tell everything they may know of unlawful enterprises in which they or the Fleagle brothers, Ralph and Jake may have engaged. ( The Palisade Tribune, February 14, 1930.)
Word from the prison indicated they refused to tell officers anything concerning any crime outside of the hold up of the First National bank of Lamar in May 1928, in connection with which four men were killed. Ralph Fleagle was executed last week for his part in the Lamar robbery and Jake Fleagle is the object of a nation wide search as the fourth member of the gang. ( The Palisade Tribune, October 18, 1930.)
Canon City, Colo., July 17 – Possibility that the execution of Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshier, Lamar bank bandits, would be postponed for several days arose late today when Ralph Carr, U.S. district attorney, and a postal inspector, had been closest with the condemned pair for several hours.
Carr was understood to be trying to get the pair to "come clean," on several holdups and robberies alleged to have been perpetrated by the Fleagle brothers and of which Carr apparently believed Royston and Abshier had knowledge.
The chance that the execution of the two would be postponed was held, however, to be only remote. Reports trickling from the conference room indicated that Royston and Abshier were playing for time in a grim game in which they held the trump cards.
The executions tentatively have been fixed for tomorrow night. (The Walsenburg World, Friday, September 30, 1929.
George J. Abshier #15300 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 35703673 in Canon City, CO.
Howard Royston #15301 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 244807063 in Canon City, CO.
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(58) #15300 GEORGE ABSHIER; { White, Male, Criminal, Murder-Robbery, Hanged, July 18, 1930}
(59) #15301 HOWARD ROYSTON; {White, Male, Criminal, Murder-Robbery, Hanged, July 18, 1930}
Royston and Abshier Are To Hang for part in Lamar Bank Crime.
Canon City, July 18 – Howard L. Royston and George Abshier, members of the Lamar bank robbery gang, were resigned today as they faced execution tonight at the state penitentiary. Barring a remote possibility that a reprieve might be granted at the last moment, the execution will be held sometime tonight. Their only hope for deferring the death sentence lies in willingness to tell everything they may know of unlawful enterprises in which they or the Fleagle brothers, Ralph and Jake may have engaged. ( The Palisade Tribune, February 14, 1930.)
Word from the prison indicated they refused to tell officers anything concerning any crime outside of the hold up of the First National bank of Lamar in May 1928, in connection with which four men were killed. Ralph Fleagle was executed last week for his part in the Lamar robbery and Jake Fleagle is the object of a nation wide search as the fourth member of the gang. ( The Palisade Tribune, October 18, 1930.)
Canon City, Colo., July 17 – Possibility that the execution of Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshier, Lamar bank bandits, would be postponed for several days arose late today when Ralph Carr, U.S. district attorney, and a postal inspector, had been closest with the condemned pair for several hours.
Carr was understood to be trying to get the pair to "come clean," on several holdups and robberies alleged to have been perpetrated by the Fleagle brothers and of which Carr apparently believed Royston and Abshier had knowledge.
The chance that the execution of the two would be postponed was held, however, to be only remote. Reports trickling from the conference room indicated that Royston and Abshier were playing for time in a grim game in which they held the trump cards.
The executions tentatively have been fixed for tomorrow night. (The Walsenburg World, Friday, September 30, 1929.
George J. Abshier #15300 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 35703673 in Canon City, CO.
Howard Royston #15301 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 244807063 in Canon City, CO.
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(59) #15301 HOWARD ROYSTON; {White, Male, Criminal, Murder-Robbery, Hanged, July 18, 1930}
Royston and Abshier Are To Hang for part in Lamar Bank Crime.
Canon City, July 18 – Howard L. Royston and George Abshier, members of the Lamar bank robbery gang, were resigned today as they faced execution tonight at the state penitentiary. Barring a remote possibility that a reprieve might be granted at the last moment, the execution will be held sometime tonight. Their only hope for deferring the death sentence lies in willingness to tell everything they may know of unlawful enterprises in which they or the Fleagle brothers, Ralph and Jake may have engaged. ( The Palisade Tribune, February 14, 1930.)
Word from the prison indicated they refused to tell officers anything concerning any crime outside of the hold up of the First National bank of Lamar in May 1928, in connection with which four men were killed. Ralph Fleagle was executed last week for his part in the Lamar robbery and Jake Fleagle is the object of a nation wide search as the fourth member of the gang. ( The Palisade Tribune, October 18, 1930.)
Canon City, Colo., July 17 – Possibility that the execution of Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshier, Lamar bank bandits, would be postponed for several days arose late today when Ralph Carr, U.S. district attorney, and a postal inspector, had been closest with the condemned pair for several hours.
Carr was understood to be trying to get the pair to "come clean," on several holdups and robberies alleged to have been perpetrated by the Fleagle brothers and of which Carr apparently believed Royston and Abshier had knowledge.
The chance that the execution of the two would be postponed was held, however, to be only remote. Reports trickling from the conference room indicated that Royston and Abshier were playing for time in a grim game in which they held the trump cards.
The executions tentatively have been fixed for tomorrow night. (The Walsenburg World, Friday, September 30, 1929.
George J. Abshier #15300 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 35703673 in Canon City, CO.
Howard Royston #15301 is buried in Woodpecker Hill cemetery in the prisoner section ID# 244807063 in Canon City, CO.
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