convicte was placed in the cell with him for the purpose of eliciting
a confession, Hanbon finally admitted to him that he had killed Mary
and gave details of the crime. He was then indicted for the murder,
The convict to whom he had con essed received a pardon and fave evi-
dence against him, This evidence was strongly corroborated by cir~
cumstances and Hanlon, who sought to prove an alibi by members of his
family and to discredit the ex-convict'!s testimony was convicted and
sentenced to hang, Prior to his execution, he became reconciled to
his fate and even though he never confessed, he went through a rigor-
ous penance in which he deprived himself of the use of tobacco, strap-
ped coarse blankets around his body, walked barefoot on the stone
floor and slept on it without covering and took nomfood mmx but bread
and water for a period of 17 days before his execution, He was hanged
in the jail at Philadelphia on Feb. 1, 1871. His Abst words were: "To
those who have ever injured me or have ever done me any woone, I for-
give them and ask God to forgive them, And all whom I have injured
in any way whatsoever, or against whom I have had any ill-feeling, I
ask their forgiveness and God to forgive me,"
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convicte was placed in the cell with him for the purpose of eliciting
‘a confession, Hanbon finally admitted to him that he had killed Mary
and gave details of the crime. He was then indicted for the murder,
The convict to whom he had con essed received a pardon and fave evi-
dence against him, This evidence was! strongly corroborated by cir-~
cumstances and Hanlon, who sought to prove an alibi by members of his
family and to discredit the ex-convict's testimony was convicted and
sentenced to hang. Prior to his execution, he became reconciled to
his fate and even though he never confessed, he went through a rigor-
ous penance in which he deprived himself of the use of tobacco, strap-
ped coarse blankets around his body, walked barefoot on the stone
floor and slept on it without covering and took nomfood mx but bread
and water for a period of 17 days before his execution, He was hanged
in the jail at Philadelphia on Feb, 1, 1871, His aast words were: "To
those who have ever injured me or have ever done me any woong, I for-
give them and ask God to forgive them, And all whom I have injured
in any way whatsoever, or against whom I have had any ill-feeling, I
ask their forgiveness and God to forgive me,"
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dence against him, This evideme was' strongly corroborated by cir-
cumstances and Hanlon, who sought to prove an alibi by members of his
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sentenced to hang. Prior to his execution, he became reconciled to
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Hanlon, a 22-year-old white man, had served in the Army where he
learned the trade of barber, Afterhis discharge, he returned to
his native Philadelphia, Pa,, where he married a 16-year-old girl
and began the practice of his profession on the ground floor of a
three-storied tenemant house which he shared with other members of
his family located on the corner of Fifth and Diamond Streets, Early
on the evening of Sept. 6, 1868, Mary Mohrman, the 6-year-old daugh-
ter of a neighboring widow, passed the shop HMXXK with a playmate
while Hanlon was seated on the stbop, He stopped the girl and asked
her where a street was located and then, while the child's playmahte
ran, he carried her into an alley. He took her into his family's
privy where he raped and strangled her to death and then carried the
body into thebasement of his house where he hid it until the next
night. He then carried it to a vanant lot nearby and left it where
it was discovered the next morning, Hanlon was one of several per=
sons suspected, but he had disguised himself with false whiskers and
could not be identified, so he, with the others, was released, In
November, 1869, under the name’ of Charles BE, Harris, he was sentenced.
> to-4-years-in-prison for the rape of another little girl, After he
arrived at the prison, his true identity became known and another
HANLON, John
Hanlon, a 22-year-old white man, had served in the Army where he
learned the trade of barber, Afterhis discharge, he returned to
his native Philadelphia, Pa,, where he married a 16-year-old girl
and began the practice of his profession on the ground floor of a
three-storied tenemant house which he shared with other members of
his family located on the corner of Fifth and Diamond Streets. Early
on the evening of Sept. 6, 1868, Mary Mohrman, the 6-year-old daugh-
ter of a neighboring widow, passed the shop HXXE with a playmate
while Eanlon was seated on the stbop, He stopped the girl and asked
her where a street was located and then, while the child's playmahe
ran, he carried her into an alley, He took her into his family's
privy where he raped and strangled her to death and then carried the
body into thebasement of his house where he hid it until the next
night. He then carried it to a vanant lot nearby and left it where
it was discovered the next morning, Hanlon was one of several per=
sons suspected, but he had disguised himself with false whiskers and
could not be identified, so he, with the others, was released, In
November, 1869, under the name’ of Charles E, Harris, he was sentenced
to-l-years—in-prison tor the rape of another little girl. After he
arrived at the prison, his true identity became known and another
HANLON, John
Hanlon, a 22-year-old white man, had served in the Army where he
learned the trade of barber, Afterhis discharge, he returned to
his native Philadelphia, Pa,, where he married a 16-year-old girl
and began the practice of his profession on the ground floor of a
three-storied tenemant house which he shared with other members of
it was discovered the next morning, Hanlon was one of several per-
sons suspected, but he had disguised himself with false whiskers and
could not be identified, so he, with the oth
November, 1869, under the name’of Charles ©, Hs
| -te-h-years~in-prison for the of another
arrived at the prison, his true identity becai
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