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Nashville, Tennessee, June 18, 1885, pa ge one
column three,

Nashville, Tennessee, June 18, 1885, pa ge one
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TERRELL, Horace June 18, 1885

Black, hanged Charlottesville, Va,, on June 18, 1885,
for the murder and rape of Mary Foster, a 12-year-old
black girl,

GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1885

bee executed thie morning at 9X o'clock in the
dail yard here (Charlottesville)...for the
murder of a girl named Mary Foster, The crimi-
nals and their victims were all colored, The ex-
ecution wasprivate, twenty-four invited guests,
he officers of the law, and ompany D, Third
Virginia Regiment, being presént....Horace

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TERRELL, Horace June 18, 5

Black, hanged Charlottesville, Va., on June 18, Tfeyel 54
for the murder and rape of Mary Foster, a 12-year-old
black girl,

GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1885

"executed this morning at 9X o'clock in the
Jail yard here (Charlottesville)...for the
murder of a girl named Mary Foster, The crimi-
nals and their victims were all colored. The ex-|
ecution wasprivate, twenty-four invited guests,
the officers of the law, and ompany D, Third
Virginia Regiment, being presént.. - Horace
Terrill did not confess his crime." BANNER,

TERRELL, Horace a

Black, hanged Charlottesville, Va., on June 18, 1885,
for the murder and rape of Mary Foster, a 12-year-old
black girl,

GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1885

"..sexecuted this morning at 9k o'clock in the
jail yard here (Charlottesville)...for the
murder of a girl named Mary Foster, The cri:
nals and their victims were all colored, 1
gcution wasprivate, twenty-four invited gueste,
the officers of the law, and ompany D, third
Virginia Regiment, being presént. lorace
at

Terri. id not confess his crime."

BANNER,



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