and acknowledged his crime. He said disobedience had
brought him to this and advised his friends to avoid the
rocks that lead to destruction, While talking he had a
smile on his face and exhibited no signs of fear, When th
trigger was publed which held in place the 300-pound weigh’
the culprit's body shot upward and then drobbed back about
two feet where it hung motionless for a moment, followed
by a slight twitching of the limbs. In two minutes his
muscles relaxed and in fifteen minutes he was pronounced
dead, his neck having been broken," NEWS, Galveston, Tex,
5-28-1891( 2-2),
Ot be hoaly
and acknowledged his crime. He said disobedience had
brought him to this and advised his friends to avoid the
rocks that lead to destruction, While talking he had a
smile on his face and exhibited no signs of fear, When thy
trigger was publed which held in place the 300-pound weigh
the culprit's body shot upward and then drobbed back about
two feet where it hung motionless for a moment, followed
by a slight twitching of the limbs. In two minutes his
muscles relaxed and in fifteen minutes he was pronounced
dead, his neck having been broken." NEWS, Galveston, Tex,
5=28-1891( 2-2),
wt 2h a. LoL,
and acknowledged his crime. He said disobedience had
brought, him to this and advised his friends to avoid the
In two minutes his
muscles relaxed and in fifteen minutes he was pronounced
dead, his neck having been broken." NEWS, Galveston, Tex.
5=28-1891(2=2),
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HARRIS. Anthony
Revived Mayor Leads at Clinton in preceding October. Mounte
scaffold with no sign of fear or tremor, Jerked up eight
feet and_neck broken, Confessed, saying he had killed
Leads because Leads had alienated affections of his wife,
When first arrested, had confessed leaving that out and
said he had done so because no one would have believed
him, Harris was a burly, black negro with a bad reputation
He shot Leads in his own yard after dark,
BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD, Birmingham, Ala., May 28, 1@91.
"Raymond, Misse 5-27-1891-Fully 2000 people assembled here
today to witness the execution of Anderson Harris, colored,
for the mrder of Hon, Gillie M, Lewis, Mayor of Clinton,on
Oct. 10, 1890. Harris made a short speech from the gallows.
HARRIS. Anthony 5~ oe Gl VD S ae se
Black, hanged Raym ississippi,—on May27
killed Mayor Leads ab Clinton in preceding Gennes Mounte
scaffold with no sign of fear or tremor, Jerked up eight
feet_and_neck broken, Confessed, saying he had killed
Leads because Leads had alienated affections of his wife,
When first arrested, had confessed leaving that out and
said he had done so because no one would have believed
him, Harris was a burly, black negro with a bad reputation
He shot Leads in his own yard after darke
BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD, Birmingham, Alas, May 28, 1891,
"Raymond, Misse 5-27-1891-Fully 2000 people assembled here
today to witness the execution of Anderson Harris, colored,
for the mrder of Hon, Gillie M, Lewis, Mayor of Clinton, on
Octe 10, 1890,. Harris made a short speech from the gallows.
HARRIS. Antho
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ceding October. Mount
scaffold with no sign of fear Cee Re
fect and neck croken, sed, saying he had killed
Leads because Leads had aera affections of his wife,
en first arrested, had confessed leaving that out and
said he had done so because no one would have believed
him, Harris was a burly, black negro with a bad reputation
He shot Leads in his own yard after dark,
‘BIRMINGHAM AGE HERALD, Birmingham, Ala,, May 28, 1891,
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