SHOWELL, Jenkins 5,
Black, hanged Snow Hill, Md., on 8/12/1876
SHOWELL, Jenkins 5,
Black, areca Snow Hill, Ma, on 8/12/1876
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» hanged Snow Hill, Md., on 8/12/1876
SHOWELL, Jenkins
Black, hanged Snow Hill, Worcester Yo., Md.,
on August 11,°1876, for rape. 2,500 persons
saw execution, DAILY NEWS, Galveston, TX
Aue. 12, 1876 |
28 years old; raped 2 women, Margaret Purnell,
black and’50, and Sarah Mary Hadder, young
white woman within 2 hours of each other on
11/26/1876$ robbed both; threats of lynching;
former slave of Lemuel Showell; convicted of
both rapes on 6-2 and sentenced to die: Had
; i sentence for att ted_rape and
Sopved pri s6h “Baltimore, MD, 6/11/1876 %1-6)
end 8-12-1876 (1-5) MD B&M EXCERPTS.
SHOWELL, Jenkins
Black, hanged Snow Hill, Worcester Co., Md.,
on August 11, 1876, for rape. 2,500 persons
saw’ execution. DAILY NEWS, Galveston, TX
Aug. 12, 1876
25 years old; raped 2 women, Margaret Purnell,
black and’50, and Sarah Mary Hadder, young
white woman within 2 hours of each other on
11/26/1876; robbed both; threats of lynching;
former slave of Lemuel Showells; convicted of
both rapes on 6-2 and sentenced to die: Had
al sentence for att ted rape and
eohane SoH, °Battimora, MD. Ai/I876 (1-6)
end 8-12-1876 (1-5) MD B&M EXCERPTS.
SHOWELL, Jenkins
Black, hanged Snow Hill, Morcecee Co., Mae,
on August 11, 1876, for rape, 2,500 persons
eee ssecution, DATLY NEWS, Galveaton, TX
ie. 12, 1876
year’ old; raped 2 women, Margaret Purnell,
Diack and 50, ona | Sarah Mary Hadder, young
ite woman with in 2 hours of each other on
iH 26/1876; robbed both; threats of lynching;
former slave of Lemuel Showell; convicted of
both rapes on 6-2 and sentenced to die: Had
and
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end 8-12-1876 (1-5) MD B&M EXCERPTS.
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