Harry Garrison
Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 16 March 1916, page 7
NEWPORT-The death sentence imposed on Harry Garrison, 30 years old, negro, by a jury in Campbell Circuit Court, several months ago was affirmed by Court of Appeals yesterday. Garrison was convicted of having attacked Mrs. Luella Crowder, wife of an employee of the C and O Railroad, at Oneonta Ky. last July. He was captured by Cincinnati detectives while attempting to cross the Ohio River at Ross Ky.
His defense was that he was under the influence of opiates at the time. After overruling a motion for a new trial, former Circuit Judge Charles W Yungblut granted Garrison an appeal in the higher Court. Pending review of the case Garrison, who was to be electrocuted February 11, was granted a respite. The date of execution will be fixed later.
Garrison will be the first man from Campbell County to die in the electric chair. Former condemned men were hanged. The last hanging was in 1897, when Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were executed for the murder of Pearl Bryan in Ft Thomas, February 1, 1896. Jackson and Walling were hanged in the Newport Jail yard.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian, Saturday, 18 March 1916, page 6
CHAIR FOR GARRISON-The death sentence imposed on Harry Garrison, a Mason county negro, charged with assaulting Mrs. Lula Crowder at Oneonta, Campbell County, last July, was affirmed by the Court of Appeals today. Garrison called at the house, where Mrs. Crowder and her child were without protection, choked the woman and after ravishing her, compelled her to give him money. He was arrested while trying to get across the Ohio river.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 27 April 1916, page 2
INSANE? Guard James Dunnigan, of Eddyville Penitentiary, who lives in Newport, visited Sheriff Gosney Thursday. It is said Harry Garrison, negro, sentenced to die for an alleged assault on a white woman, is pleading insanity. Time of the execution has not been set, Dunnigan said.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 21 August 1916, page 1
POSTPONED-Word was received in Newport Friday that an error on the part of the clerks in the office of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, life of Harry Garrison, negro, convicted on a charge of attacking Luella Crowder and sentences to be electrocuted on Feb 11, has been postponed again for several months.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 13 September 1916, page 1
FRANKFORT-Harry Garrison, Campbell co. prisoner, sentenced to death for assault, will be electrocuted Nov 17 at Eddyville. Governor Stanley signed the death warrant today.
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The Interior Journal, Stanford KY, Tuesday, 21 November 1916, page 2
HERE AND THERE-Harry Garrison, 21, negro convicted in the Campbell county circuit in Newport of attacking Mrs. Luella Crowder at her home in Oneonta, Ky. last year, was electrocuted in the Eddyville penitentiary Friday.