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Knight, alias Jack Knight, a Pensacola, Fla., black man, was visit-
ing in Mobile, Ala., on the night ofJuly 28, 1897, and was engaged
in gambling with cards when he got into an argument over the game
with another player, Frank Dantzler, Knight pulled a:pistol and
shot and killed Dantzler on the spot. As he ran down the street
attempting th escape, he was being pursued by two poliecemen when

a third officer, Joe Tucker attempted to block his passage, Knight
shot Tucker through the neck and he staggered inside a building be-
fore he also died. Convicted and sentenced to death, Knight's

case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Alabama which upheld the
conviction and sentence and he was hanged before a crowd of 1,000
witnesses in Mobile on Jan. 21, 1898, after confessing his crime on
the scaffold and blaming it on whiskey and gambling. His neck was
broken by the fall, but it was ten mimtes before he died. His last
request was that his body be returned to Pensacola for burial and
in order to assure that this wish would be complied with, he raised

t, 2 money pYsStyepe 2 printed solicitation requesting donations to

KNIGHT, Jefferson ‘ Vk Vi, 7 Vp o4 IE-

Knight, alias Jack Knight, a Pensacola, Fla., black man, was visit-
ing in Mobile, Ala., on the night ofJuly 28, 1897, and was engaged
in gambling with cards when he got into an argument over the game
with another player, Frank Dantzler. Knight pulled a:pistol and
shot and killed Dantzler on the spot. As he ran down the street
attempting th escape, he was being pursued by two poliecemen when

a third officer, Joe Tucker attempted to block his passage. Knight
shot Tucker through the neck and he staggered inside a building be-
fore he also died. Convicted and sentenced to death, Knight's

case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Alabama which upheld the
conviction and sentence and he was hanged before a crowd of 1,000
witnesses in Mobile on Jan. 21, 1898, after confessing his crime on
the scaffold and blaming it on whiskey and gambling. is neck was
broken by the fall, but it was ten mimtes before he died. His last]
request was that his body be returned to Pensacola for burial and
in order to assure that this wish would be complied with, he raised

the money BY RYEPE 2 printed solicitation requesting donations to

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Knight, alias Jack Knight, a Pensacola, Fla., black man, was visit-
ing in Mobile, Ala,, on the night ofJuly 28, 1897, and was engaged
in gambling with cards when he got into an argument over the game
with another player, Frank Dantzler, Knight pulled a pistol and
shot and killed Dantzler on the spot. As he ran down the street
attempting th escape, he was being pursued by two poliecemen when
a third officer, Joe Tucker attempted to block his passage.

fore he also died. Convicted and sentenced to death, Knight's
case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Alabama which upheld the
conviction and sentence and he was hanged before a crowd of 1,000
witnesses in Mobile on Jan, 21, 1898, after confessing his crime on
tho scaffold and blaming it on whiskey and gambling. His neck was
broken by the fall, but it was ten mimtes before he died. His las
request was that his body be returned to Pensacola for burial and
in order to assure that this wish would be complied with, he raised

the money RYCHYEPE a printed solicitation requesting donations to

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