change of venue to Alexander County where both were convicted with
Mrs. Wycoff being sentenced to life imprisonment and McCorkle to bk
hanged, At the conflusion of his trial, he asked that the sentence
be carried out immediately, There was no appeal and he was hanged
before 3,000 witnesses at Taylorsville on August 15,.1879,..He spoke
for twenty minutes from the scaffold afiter which he removed his boots
from his feet and said that he was ready to die. His neck was not
broken and he died of strangulation,
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, August 30, 1879 (6-1)
change of venue to Alexander County where both were convicted with
Mrs. Wycoff being sentenced to life imprisonment and McCorkle to bk
hanged. At the conélusion of his trial, he asked that the sentence
be carried out immediately, There was no appeal and he was hanged
before 3,000 witnesses at Taylorsville on August 15, 1879,..He spoke
for twenty minutes from the scaffold afiter which he removed his boots
from his feet and said that he was ready to die. His neck was not
broken and he died of strangulation,
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, August 30, 1879 (6-1)
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change of venue to Alexander County where both were convicted with
Mrs, Wycoff being sentenced to life imprisonment and McCorkle to bk
hanged, At the conélusion of his trial, he asked that the sentence
be carried out immediately.
There was no appeal and he was hanged
before 3,000 witnesses at Taylorsville on August 15, 1879,
for twenty minutes
He spoke
‘rom the scaffold after which he removed his boots
from his feet and said that he was ready to die. His neck was not
broken and he died of strangulation,
NATIONAL POLIGE GAZETTE, August 30, 1879 (6-1)
hes of rene se Manin ony ere ath vere cited with
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McCORKLE, Robert
McCorkle, a 60-year-old black hunter and farmer who had been active
in the radical wing of the Republican farmer, lived at Catawba Station,
Catawba Co.,,N, GQ, about one mile fromthe home of J, Wesley Wycoff,
a white farmer and carpenter. Wycoff frequently hired McCorkle to
work for him and on such occasions McCorkle mingled with members of
Wycoff's family on terms of intimacy, sharing the same table with his
wife and children. In time an adulerous affair developed between Mc
Corkle and Wycoff's 35-year-old wife, After several years, Wycoff
learned of the affair and warned his wife that if Mc’orkle persisted
in coming there or she in seeing him, he would be forced to kill the
black man, Mrs, Wycoff warned McCorkle of her husband's threat and
provided him with a pistol, On the night of Nov, 7, 1878, while the
Wyooff's were sitting around their fire, their dogs began to bark
and when Wycoff stepped outside to investigate, McCorkle shot him
through the heart, killing him instantly. Mrs. Wycoff told her chil-
dren that their father was dead but she refused to leave the house to
check on his condition until the next morning when she alreted the
authorities, Both Mrs, Wycoff and McYorkle were arrested and charged
with the mrder and while McCorkle denied that he had killed Wycoff,
he freely admitted the affair with Mrs, Wycoff, They were granted a
McCORKLE, Robert
McCorkle, a 60-year-old black hunter and farmer who had been active
in the radical wing of the Republican farmer, lived at Catawba Station,
Catawba Co.,,N. OQ, about one mile from the home of J, Wesley Wycoff,
a white farmer and carpenter. Wycoff frequently hired McCorkle to
work for him and on such occasions McCorkle mingled with members of
Wycoff's family on terms of intimacy, sharing the same table with his
wife and children. In time an adulerous affair developed between Mc-
Corkle and Wycoff's 35-year-old wife, After several years, Wycoff
learned of the affair and warned his wife that if McCorkle persisted
in coming there or she in seeing him, he would be forced to kill the
black man. Mrs, Wycoff warned McCorkle of her husband's threat and
provided him with a pistol. On the night of Nov. 7, 1878, while the
Wyooff's were sitting around their fire, their dogs began to bark
and when Wycoff stepped outside to investigate, McCorkle shot him
through the heart, killing him instantly. Mrs. Wycoff told her chil-
dren that their father was dead but she refused to leave the house to
check on his condition until the next morning when she alreted the
authorities, Both Mrs, Wycoff and McYorkle were arrested and charged
with the murder and while McCorkle denied that he had killed Wycoff,
he freely admitted the affair with Mrs, Wycoff, They were granted a
McCORKLE, Robert
McCorkle, a 60-year-old black hunter and farmer who had been ‘active
in the radical wing of the Republican farmer, lived at Catawba Station,
Catawba Co,,,N, G, about one mile fromthe home of J, Wesley vycoff,
a white farmer and carpenter, Wycoff frequently hired McCorkle to
work for him and on such occasions McCorkle mingled with menbers of
Wycoff's family on terms of intimacy, sharing the same table with his
wife and children, In time an adulerous affair developed between Mc=
Corkle and Wycoff''s 35-year-old wife, After several years, Wycoff
learned of the affair and warned his wife that if McCorkle persisted
in coming there or she in seeing him, he would be forced to kill the
black man, Mrs, Wycoff warned McCorkle of her husband's threat and
provided him with a pistol. On the night of Nov, 7, 1878, while the
YWyooff's were sitting around their fire, their dogs began to bark
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through the heart, killing him instantly, Mrs. Wycoff told her chil-
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check on his condition until the next morning when she alreted the
authorities, Both Mrs, Wycoff and NcYorkle were arrested and charged
with the mrder and while McCorkle denied that he had killed Wycoff,
he freely admitted the affair with Mrs, Wycoff, They were granted a
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