the body was subsequently recovered in an abandoned house whare it
was being prepared for boiling the flesh off and using the skeleton
for anatomical purposes. He was reinterred just outside the Pres=
byterian graveyard in Bethany.
HISTORY OF WAYNE, PLKE AND MONROE COUNTIES by Alfred Matthews.
R. T. Peck &: Cou Philadelphia, 1886, Rage 1193.
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the body was subsequently recovered in an abandoned house whare it
was being prepared for boiling the flesh off and using the skeleton
for anatomical purposes. He was reinterred just outside the Pres-
byterian graveyard in Bethany.
HISTORY OF WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES by Alfred Matthews.
R. T. Peck & Con; Philadelphia, 1886, Rage 11938
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the body was subsequently recovered in an abandoned house whaire it
was being prepared for boiling the flesh off and using the skeleton
for anatomical purposes, Hoe was reinterred just outside the Bres-
byterian graveyard in Bethany.
HISTORY OF WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES by Alfred Matthews.
R, T. Peck &[0,, Philadelphia, 1886, Bage 193,
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poison. He was arrested the next day and that afternoon a Coroner's
jury returned a verdict that he had murdered Roswell. The indict~
ment rendered by the Grand Jury charged that he had administered
arsenic to Roswell in a glass of cider and a witness at his trial
testified that she had heard him say that he had killed his step-
father because he hated him, H&XWHEXKEHRSA Convicted and sentenced
to death, he was hanged on a scaffold erected about forty rods from
the old Court House in Bethany, Pas, on Nov. 15, 1817. The execu-
tion was badly bungled in that his neck was not broken and after
he had been strangled into unconsciousness the rope Broke and he
fell to the ground. Before he could be re=hanged, he revived and
begged and pleaded not to be hanged again but he was dra ged a
few inches off the ground and slowly strangled to death in great
agony. A few days after the execution his grave was robbed and
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fathers 2 man named-Roswell on a farm muxkk outside Seelyville,
“Wayne Cou Pa. On Feb. 6, 1817, Mrs. Roswell appeared bgfore a
local magistrage and wore that her son had killed her husband by
poison. He was arrested the next day and that afternoon a Coroner's
jury returned a verdict that he had murdered Roswell, The indict-
ment rendered by the Grand Jury charged that he had administered
arsenic to Roswell in a glass of cider and a witness at his trial
testified that she had heard him say that he had killed his step-
father because he hated him, H&XWAEXKEH¥SA Convicted and sentenced
to death, he was hanged on a scaffold erected about forty rods from
the old Court House in Bethany, Pa., on Nov. 15, 1817. ‘The execu-
tion was badly bungled in that his neck was not broken and after
he had been strangled into unconsciousness the rope Broke and he
fell to the ground. Before he could be re-hanged, he revived and
begged and pleaded not to be hanged again but he was dragged a
few inches off the ground and slowly strangled to death in great
agony. A few gaye after the execution his grave was robbed and
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S Jones, a ¥ewng man, lived with his mother, Mliaabeth, and his step-
father, a man named Roswell on a farm muxkk outside Seelyville,
“Wayne toe, Pa. On Feb, 6, 1817, Mrs. Roswell appeared bgfore a
local magistrage and wore that her son had killed her husband by
poison, He was arrested the next day and that afternoon a Coroner's
jury returned a verdict that he had mrdered Roswell, The indict-
ment rendered by the Grand Jury charged that he had administered
arsenic to Roswell in a glass of cider and a witness at his trial
testified that she had heard him say that he had killed his step-
father because he hated him, AXEKEXKEN{A Convicted and sentenced
to death, he was hanged on a scaffold erected about forty rods from
the old Court House in Bethany, Pa, on Nov. 15, 1817. ‘The execu~
tion was badly bungled in that his neck was not broken afid after
he had been strangled into unconsciousness the rope Broke and he
fell to the ground. Before he could be re-hanged, he revived and
begged and pleaded not to be hanged again but he was dragged a
few inches off the ground and slowly strangled to death in great
agony. A few days after the execution his grave was robbed and
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