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Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE-L] Conda Dabney; Falsely accused of Murder; 1927
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:43:49 -0500
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Angela,
I would love to have a copy of the picture of Mary Vickery. My email is
Bob Leach
Thomasville, GA
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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Conda Dabney; Falsely accused of Murder; 1927
LIFER'S "Victim",
KENTUCKY GIRL,
IS FOUND ALIVE
Woman Supposed to Have
Been Murdered Returns
To Aid Convict.
PRISONER ASSERTS
HE WAS 'FRAMED'
Girl Is Being Held Until
Identity Definitely
Established.
WILLIAMSBURG,Ky., March 19.
(U. P.) Mary Vickery, for whose
"murder'' Connie Dabney is serving
a. life sentence in the state penitentiary,
appeared in Harlan, Ky., today.
For two years she has been working in a mill
in Cincinnati, with the knowledge that an innocent
man was suffering for a crime he
never committed.- She refused to
say why she did not come forward
and clear Dabney when she "heard"
of his arrest and conviction.
She was held by authorities until
they can take the necessary
steps to establish her identity legally
and have Dabney released.
The identity of the girl murdered
now becomes a mystery
again. A body, partly decomposed,
LIFER'S 'VICTIM'
KENTUCKY GIRL,
IS FOUND ALIVE
(Continued.from Page One)
was found in an abandoned mine
shaft. Although the body itself
was unidentifiable because of its
condition, Charles Vickery. Mary's
father, identified the hat and clothing found
as his daughter's and
testimony was introduced at the
trial to the effect that Dabney was
seen with Mary shortly before her
disappearance from the mine town
of Harlan.
FRANKFORT, Ky., March 19.
(A. P.) "I am innocent of killing
Mary Vickery or anyone else," Con
ley Dabney, 28, said tonight in state
reformatory here. --
He was sentenced to life impris-
onment after the alleged murder of
Miss Vickery, 16, who returned to
Wiliamsburg today "to help get an
innocent man, out of prison."
"Society should see I am re-
leased immediately," Dabney's
statement said.
"I was convicted of killing Miss
Vickery and throwing her body in
a mine near Harlan on sole testimony
of Miss Marie Jackson, who
swore she was an eyewitness to
the murder of the girl," Dabney
said.
"I never knew nor saw the
Vickery girl-
"The Jackson woman wanted me
to leave my wife and two children
and go with her. My wife and chil
dren live at Coal Creek, Tenn.
where I was born and reared."
Never at Harlan
Dabney said he never was in
Harlan, where the body of a woman
identified as Miss Vickery's
was found.
Dabney said he had no relatives
in Kentucky, but was depending- on
justice to send Miss Mary Vickery's
statement to Gov. William Fields and convicting courts.
Dabney was received at the reformatory
October 15, 1925.
Mary Vickery disappeared from
Broxton, Aug. 17, 1925. The composed
body of an unidentified young woman
was found in the abandoned
mine some weeks later.
Dabney's case is pending in the
Court of Appeals.
Source: Lincoln Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, 3/20/1927
Woman Starts Sentence,
Man Gets His Freedom
FRANKFORT, Ky., April 11.
(AP) Marie Jackson, twenty seven,
who caused Conda Dabney,
thirty-three, of Harlan, Ky.,
a taxlcab driver, to spend eleven
months In the state penitentiary
for a murder that was never committed,
began her own term In
the same prison here today.
She was sentenced to five years
recently on confessing that she
testified falsely against Dabney
because he repulsed her attentions.
At the prison It was said she
went about her Job cheerfully today.
Dabney, who was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for murder of
Mary Vlckery. was pardoned
when she returned home explaining
that she had merely run
away. Dabney has gone back to
his wife and children at Coal Creek, Tenn.
Source: Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport, Conn.
April 12, 1927
Another article:
Like a ghost from the grave, Mary Vickery,
16, has reappeared at her home near Harlan,
Ky., after an absence of 19 months to free
Conley Dabney, miner and taxicab driver of
Coal Creek, Tenn., who was serving a life term
in the Frankfort, Ky, reformatory for her "murder".
The girl said she left home because of family
difficulties.
Source: The Morning News Review, Florence, S.C.
March 26, 1927
Note: Spelling left as printed; there is a photo of Mary
Vickery if anyone wants it.
Angela
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