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COLEMAN, Thomas
"Guanison's (Colo) only legal execution took place in |
December of 1881. Thomas Coleman, a Negro, was strung up
on an especially built scaffold near the south wall of th
courthouse. A high board fence was constructed to bar th
deed from public view, but many of the curious swarmed to
the reof of the Masonic building across the street, into
nearby trees, or top of the courthouse to partake of the
enterfa inment. Since it was late Dece, and the ground
was frozen, there was some delay in preparing a grafe for
the fellow, and the REVIEW, with its customary frankness,
reported on Dec. BH 2h, that Coleman's beard had grown a
half inch since he was hanged the previous Frdiay. Young
sters of the town dared each other to go into the building
where he lay, feeling that touching him was the proéf of
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COLEMAN, Thomas
"Guanison's (Colo) only legal execution took place in |
December of 1881. Thomas Coleman, a Negro, was strung up
on an especially built scaffold near the south wall of thi
courthouse. A high board fence was constructed to bar th
deed from public view, but many of the curious swarmed to
the roof of the Masonic building across the street, into
nearby trees, or top of the courthouse to partake of the
enterpa iment. Since it was late Dece. and the ground
was frozen, there was sane delay in preparing a grafe for
the fellow, and the REVIEW, with its customary frankness,
reported on Dec. BR 2h, that Coleman's beard had grown a
half inch since he was hanged the previous Frdiay. Young
sters of the town dared each other to go into the buildi
where he lay, feeling that touching him was the pro6f of
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COLEMAN, Thonas
"Guanison's (Colo) only legal
December of 1861.
the roof of the Masonic building across the street, into
nearby trees, or top of the courthouse to partake of the
enterfa inment. Since it was late Dece, and the ground
was frozen, there was sone delay in preparing a grafe for
the fellow, and the REVIEW, with its customary frankness,
reported on Dec. 2H 2h, that Coleman's beard had gro
half inch since he was hanged the previous Frdiay.
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sters of lared each other d
where he lay, feeling that touching him was the pro8f of
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