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FOOKS, Hiram About 353 ex=slave had served in
Army during Civil War.
Black, hanged July 11, 1878, in Somerset Co., Md., for the
mirder of Jack Tyler, also black, in October, 1877,
Gallows were erected on the almshouse grounds about |
miles from Princess Anne, Yyler was about 20-yearseold
and had been ill, Some of his friends hired Fooks to
take him to some relatives near Rock Creek in another
part of the county, Several days later Tyler's horribly
mutilated bedy was found in the goods of the Fairmount
Districte
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, July 20, 1878 (Page 10, Col. 1) |
MD - BOOK AND MAGAZINE BLACHNPTS,.
711-1678
FOOKS, Hiram About 353; ex-slave had served in
Army during Civil War.
Black, hanged July 11, 1878, in Somerset Co., Md., for the
murder of Jack Tyler, also black, in Octeber, 1877,
Gallows were erected on the almshouse grounds about
miles from Princess Anne. Tyler was about 20-years-old
and had been ill, Some of his friends hired Fooks to
take him to some relatives near Rock Creek in another
part of the county, Several days later Tyler's horribly
mutilated body was found in the q@oods of the Fairmount
Districte
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, July 20, 1878 (Page 10, Col. 1)
MD - BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCEAPTS.
7=11-1678
FOOKS, Hiram About 28 ex-slave had served in
rmy during Civil War.
Black, hanged July 11, 1878) in Somerset Co,, Md., for the|
murder of Jack Tyler, also black, in October, 1877.
Gallows were erected on the almshouse grounds about
miles from Princess Anne, Tyler was about 20~years-old
and had been ill, Some of his friends hired Fooks to
take him to some relatives near Rock Creek in another
part of the county, Several days later Tyler's horribly
mutilated body was found in the goods of the Fairmount
District.
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, July 20, 1878 (Page 10, Col, 1)
MD - BOOK AND MAGAZINE EXCEAPTS,
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