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HOFFMAN, David ‘July <2, 1887
"Nebraska City, Nebraska, July 22, 1887-David Hoffman
was hanged her’e today for wrecking a Missouri Pacific
passenger train on the night of the llth of January last
at Dunbar, a small station on the Missouri Pacific, ten
miles west of this place, At the time 6f the wreck, Engi-
neer DeWitt was instantly killed and a number of passen-
gers were seriously injured, Hoffman passed a good night,
having retired early, and sleeping soundly all night, He
ate a breakfast of fruit and a few delicacies and ascended
the scaffold with a firm tread, He made an effort to say
something, but broke down, The trap was sprung at 10:2)
and he was strangled to death in eight minutes, His body
was cut down and turned over to the County Coroner, His
confederate in the train-wrecking is serving a ten years!
sentence in the penitentiary, having turned State's evi-
dence, The militia company was called out to keep order
HOFFMAN, David July 22, 1887
"Nebraska City, Nebraska, July 22, 1887-David Hoffman
was hanged here today for wrecking a Missouri Pacific
passenger train on the night of the 1lth of January last
at Dunbar, a small station on the Missouri Pacific, ten
miles west of this place, At the time 6f the wreck, Engi-
neer DeWitt was instantly killed and a number of passen=
gers were seriously injured, Hoffman passed a good night,
having retired early, and sleeping soundly all night, He
ate a breakfast of fruit and a few delicacies and ascended
the scaffold with a firm tread, He made an effort to say
something, but broke down, The trap was sprung at 10:2)
and he was strangled to death in eight minutes, His body
was cut down and turned over to the County Coroner, His
confederate in the train-wrecking is serving a ten years!
sentence in the penitentiary, having turned State's evi-
dence, The militia company was called out to keep order
HOFFMAN, David duly 22, 1887
"Nebraska City, Nebraska, July 2 1887-David Hoff
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