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- “Jack O'Neil was hanged on Friday, Jan. 7, 1898, for the
murder of Hattie McCloud, at Buckland, near Shelburne __
Fall, Mass. O'Neil denied the killing and charged that
hewas the dupe of racial bigortry when this prejudice was
still widespread,..Me said ealmly as he went to his death,
"I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see m
- hanged will live te see the day when it is provéd I am
__dnnocent = and it will be some time.' This was the last
hanging in Massachusetts (electric chair was installed in
1900). A few months later a dying Shelburne Falis soldie;
fighting the S ds_in Cubas_asa member of the the old
Sixth Massac tts Militia cenfessed te the mrder and
~ Cleared O'Neil. Eddie Collins, an ace newspaper reporter
was correspondent in Cuba interviewing the solder and he |
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“Wack O'Neil was hanged on Friday, Jan. 7, 1698, for the
_murder of Hattie McCloud, at Buckland, near Shelburne
Fall, Mass. O'Neil denied the killing and charged that
hewas the dupe of racial bigortry when this prejudice was
still widespread, .,Me said ealmly as he went to his death,
"I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see me
hanged will Live to see the day when it is provéd I am
innocent - and it will be some time.' This was the last_
hanging in Massachusetts (electric chair was installed in
1900). A few months later a dying Shelburne Falls soldiel
fighting the 5S: s_in Cubas asa member of the the old
Sixth Massac’ tts Militia confessed te the mrder and
cleared O'Neil.
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"Jack O'Neil was hanged on Friday, Jan. 7, 18968, for the
murder of Hattie McCloud, at Buckland, near Shelburne
Fall, Mass, O'Neil denied the killing and charged that
hewas the dupe of racial bigortry when this prejudice was
still widespread, ..Me said ealnly as he went to his death,
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