trees and houses, I hope you will all take warning from me and
shun the gallows, JI bid you all farewell and hope to meet you in
Heaven," His neck was broken by the fall,
BALTIMORE SUN, Baltimore, Md,, Feb, 11, 1871
trees and houses. I hope you will all take warning from me and
shun the gallows, I bid you all farewell and hope to meet you in
Heaven," His neck was broken by the fall,
BALTIMORE SUN, Baltimore, Md,, Feb, 11, 1871
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MARTIN , John
Martin, a 2Q-year-old black man, lived with his parents in a rural
section of Frederick Co,, Md. Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morn-
ing of April 6, 1870, he slipped out of the house and went to the
home of an aged white couple, Mr, and Mrs, Butcher, who lived near-
by, admitting himself through a rear room window. He then went
into the bedroom where Mr, Butcher, 100-years-old, lay sleeping
with his 82-year-old wife. While the old man lay helpless in the
bed beside her, Martin raped the wife, He then returned home and
went back to bed where his mother found him when she summoned him
for breakfast, Speedily captured, Martin maintained his innocence
‘even though the Butchers adentified him as the rapist, Convicted
and sentenced to die, he made a partial confession on the Monday
preceding his Friday execution, admitting that he had gone into
the Butcher house but denging that he had raped Mrs. Butcher as
he claimed that the couple's screams had frightened him away, He
was hanged in the jaily yard at Frederick on February 10, 1871,
A large crowd of people had gathered to witness the execution, and
&
oh buildings surrounding the jail as well as the
limbs orhaet Feces ovat oking the yard yoo were rit ed with spec
tators, His last words were: "My friends, all of you gathered
around her to see the last of me, I suppose, I see some standing on
MARTIN , John
Martin, a 2Q-year-old black man, lived with his parents in a rural
section of Frederick Co,, Md. Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morn=
ing of April 6, 1870, he slipped out of the house and went to the
home of an aged white couple, Mr, and Mrs, Butcher, who lived near=
by, admitting himself through a rear room window. He then went
into the bedroom where Mr, Butcher, 100-years-old, lay sleeping
with his 82-year-old wife. While the old man lay helpless in the
bed beside her, Martin raped the wife. He then returned home and
went back to bed where his mother found him when she summoned him
for breakfast. Speedily captured, Martin maintained his innocence
“even though the Butchers adentified him as the rapist. Convicted
and sentenced to die, he made a partial confession on the Monday
preceding his Friday execution, admitting that he had gone into
the Butcher house but denying that he had raped Mrs, Butcher as
he claimed that the couple's screams had frightened him away. He
was hanged in the jaily yard at Frederick on February 10, 1871,
A large crowd of people had gathered to witness the page ee and
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tators, His last words were: "My friends, all of you gathered
around her to see the last of me, I suppose, I see some standing or
MARTIN , John
Mertin, a 2Q-year-old black man, lived with his parents in a rural
section of Frederick Co,, Md. Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morn=
ing of April 6, 1870, he slinped out of the house and went to the
home of an aged white couple, Mr, and Mrs, Butcher, who lived near=
by, admitting himself through a rear room window.
into the bedroom where Mr, Butcher, 100-years-old, lay sleeping
with his 82-year-old wife, While the old man lay helpless in the
bed beside her, Martin raped the wife, He then returned home and
went back to bed where his mother found him when she summoned him
for breakfasts Speedily captured, Martin maintained his innocence
“even though the Butchers adentified him as the rapist. Convicted
eee die, he made a partial confession on the Monday
preceding his Friday execution, admitting that he had gone into
the Butcher house but denfing that he had raped Mrs.
he claimed that the couple's scre:
had gathered to, witness the execution,” and
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