searching for the body, It was finally located and all three brothers.
as well as their father were arrested, The brothers finally confessed
~absolving the old man of any guilt and he was released. At their tria
they were convicted and sentenced to die and on July 17, 1825, they
were hanged at Buffalo before a crowd estimated as being between fif-
teen and twenty thousand people, It has ime written that a Judge,
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‘WARKZGRJXRRAXLAMKEK entering Buffalo just prior to the execution, met
a venerable Indian warrior, Red Jacket, walking towards his hime in
the Seneca village and inquired why he was not attending the execution,
Hed Jacket replied: "Ugh, folls enough there now - battle is the place
to see men die," ;
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AMERICAN MURDER BALLADS by Burt, Page 76
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",.eHANG BY THE NECK,.."By Teeters, Pages 275-276
CENEENNIAL HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK by Johnson, pp 359-363
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searching for the body, It was finally located and all three brothers
as well as their father were arrested, The brothers finally confessed
absolving the oldman of any guilt and he was réleased, At their tria
they were convicted and sentenced to die and on July 17, 1825, they
were hanged at Buffalo before a crowd estimated as being between fif-
teen and twenty thousand people, It was ime written that a Judge,
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a venerable Indian warrior, Red Jacket, walking towards his hime in
the Seneca village and inquired why he was not attending the execution,
Red Jacket replied: "Ugh, folls enough there now - battle is the place
to see men die,"
AMERICAN MURDER BALLADS by Burt, Page 76
970-975 McDADE 286-288
",.eHANG BY THE NECK..."By Teeters, Pages 275-276
CENEENNIAL HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK by Johnson, pp 359-363
Viz4d 02 SF See also: BENCH AND BAR OF SARATOGA COUNTY, pp26h-5
Excerpt from Bench & Bar filed in New York, - NWU
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searching for the body, It was finally located and all three brothers
as well as their father were arrested, The brothers finally confessed,
absolving the- @ was released, At their trial
they were convicted and sentenced to die and on July 17, 1825, they
were hanged at Buffalo before a crowd estimated as being between fif-
teen and twenty thousand people, It was ime written that a Judge,
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a venerable Indian warrior, Red Jacket, walking towards his héme
the Seneca village and inquired why he was not attending the execution,
Red Jacket replied: "Ugh, folls emer there now = battle is the place
to see men die,"
AMERICAN MURDER BALLADS by Burt, Page 76
970-975 McDADE 286-288
",,.HANG BY THE NECK,.."By Teeters, Pages 275-276
CENEENNIAL HISTORY OF ERIE “in NEW YORK by Johnson, pp 359-363
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THAYER, Nelson, Israel, Jr., and Isaac ;
Nelson, 23-years-old, Israel, Jr., 2l-years-old, and Isaac, 19-years-
old, were the sons of a white farmer, Israel Thayer, who lived near
Boston, Erie Co., N. Y. The two oldest were married and they all
farmed together with their father, They were none too prosperous
and, as a means of sppplementing their income, they took as in as a
boarder, John Love, a Scottish trader who worked the Great Lakes area,
Love, a shrewd and calculating man, leaned KMEXWKARKHAEX money to a
number of people including the Thayer brothers, when they could not
_repay the loan and Love was insistent, they lured him to the home of
Israel, Jr., on Dec, 15, 192), and as he sat warming before the fire,
Isaac shot him in the back with a gun, Love did not immediately fall
to the floor and Nelson and Israel, Jr., finished him off with an axe,
They had shrewdly selected the day on which they were butchering hogs
to account for any blood that might be seen, and they dragged the body
into a gully behind the house and buried it in a shallow grave, They
then spread the word that Love had left the country to avoid being
prosecuted on some worthless checks, Suspicibdh became aroused when
they Thayer boys began spending large sums of money and then one of
the brothers started riding Love's distinctive horse in publie, They
made an effort to collect other money due Love, saying that he had
asked them to do so, but when they could produce a power of attorney,
people became convinced that they had killed the peddler and began
THAYER, Nelson, Israel, Jr., and Isaac
Nelson, 23-years-old, Israel, Jr., 2l-years-old, and Isaac, 19-years-
old, were the sons of a white farmer, Israel Thayer, who lived near
Boston, Erie Co., Ne Y. The two oldest were married and they all
farmed together with their father, They were none too prosperous
and, as a means of sppplementing their income, they took aw in as a
boarder, John Love, a Scottish trader who worked the Great Lakes area,
Love, a shrewd and calculating man, leaned XMEXHKAXKARX money to a
number of people including the Thayer brothers, When they could not
repay the loan and Love was insistent, they lured him to the home of
Israel, Jr., on Dec. 15, 192), and as he sat warming before the fire,
Isaac shot him in the back with a gun, Love did not immediately fall
to the floor and Nelson and Israel, Jr., finished him off with an axe,
They had shrewdly selected the day on which they were butchering hogs
to account for any blood that might be seen, and they dragged the body!
into a gully behind the house and buried it in a shallow grave. They
then spread the word that Love had left the country to avoid being
prosecuted on some worthless checks, Suspicith became aroused when
they Thayer boys began spending large sums of money and then one of
the brothers started riding Love's distinctive horse in publie, They
made an effort to collect other money due Lave, saying that he had
asked them to do 80, but when they could produce a power of attorney,
people became convinced that they had killed the peddler and began
THAYER, Nelson, Israel, dr,, and Isaac
Nelson, 23-years-old, Israel, Jr., 2l-years-old, and Isaac, 19-years-
old, were the sons of a white farmer, Israel Thayer, who lived near
Boston, Erie Co., N, Ys The two oldest were married and they all
farmed together with their father, They were none too prosperous
and, as a means of sppplementing their income, they took ax in as a
boarder, John Love, a Scottish trader who worked the great Lakes area,
Love, a shrewd and calculating man, leaned XHXWKHKIGHEX
number of people including the Thayer brothers, \hen they could not
repay the loan and Love was insistent, they lured him to the hone of
Israel, Jr,, on Dec. 15, 192h, and as he sat warming before the fire,
Isaac shot him in the back with a gun, Love did not immediately fall
to the floor and Nelson and Israel, Jr., finished him off with an axe.
They had shrewdly selected the day on which they were butchering hogs
to account for any blood that might be seen, and they dragged the body}
into a gully behind the house and buried it ina shellow grave. They
then spread the word that Love had left the country to avoid being
prosecuted on some worthless checks, Suspicibi became aroused when
they Thayer boys began spending large sums of money and then one of
the brothers started riding Love's distinctive horse in publies They
nade an effort to collect other money due Lave, saying that he had
asked then to do 50, but when they could produce a power of attorney,
people es convinced that they had killed the peddler and began
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