come running through the woods towards them screaming that he had been
shote They said that they saw the man who was in pursuit but that he
turned and fled when xhayxma he saw them and even though they knew
Rosengrants well, none could identify him as the killer, He was con-
victed largely on the victim's dying statement and his execution was
delayed while the conviction was appealed to the State Supreme Court
which affirmed the lower Court and he was hanged before around 5,000
witnesses on a double scaffold located near the old entrance to the
Catholic section of Evergreen Cemetery in Leadville on July 29, 1881,
He went to his death calmly, maintaining his innocence until the ende
His last words were: "Goodbye, all, I go away to leave this world
with innocence of the charge I die for, Tha}, God knows. I know I
shall be judged rightly there. Don't let doctors have my body to cut
ups and be sure to’ write my brother,"
VERDICT: GUILTY AS CHARGED: LEADVILLE JUSTICE, 1879-1886 by Sherrill
Warford. Silver City Printing Co, Leadville, Colorado, Copyright
1977 by Sherrill Warford. Pages 18.
come running through the woods towards them screaming that he had been
shot. They said that they saw the man who was in pursuit but that he
turned and fled when xhayoqma he saw them and even though they knew
Rosengrants well, none could identify him as the killer, He was con-
victed largely on the victim's dying statement and his execution was
delayed while the conviction was appealed to the State Supreme Court
which affirmed the lower Court and he was hanged before around 5,000
witnesses on a double scaffold located near the old entrance to the
Catholic section of Evergreen Cemetery in Ieadville on July 29, 1881,
He went to his death calmly, maintaining his innocence until the ende
His last words were: "Goodbye, all. I go away to leave this world
with innocence of the charge I die for, Tha}, God knows. I know I
shall be judged rightly there. Don't let doctors have my body to cut
up, and be sure to’ write my brother."
VERDICT: GUILTY AS CHARGED: LEADVILLE JUSTICE, 1879-1886 by Sherrill
Warford. Silver City Printing Co. Leadville, Colorado. Copyright
1977 by Sherrill Warford. Pages i8-
VERDICT: GUILTY AS CHARGED: LEADVILLE JUSTICE, 1879-1886 by Sherrill
Warford, Silver City Printing Cos, Leadville, Colorado. Copyright
1977 by Sherrill Warford, Pages 18-
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ROSENGRANTS, Merrick
Rosengrants (also spelled Rosencrans and Rosencrantz), a white middle-
aged "California Gulch" miner, lived in Tennessee Park approximately
six miles from Leadville, Coloe, where he had the reputation of being
an affable, honest man. On June 18, 1880, a mimer named John Lang=
meyer was brought into leadville, fatally wounded by a pistol shot
through the groin, Langmeyer said that he had returned to his cabin
on the A rkansas River and found Rosengrants in the process of ran-
sacking ite He ran with Rosengrants in pursuit firing his pistol and
one of the bullets had struck him, ‘Langmeyer lived until June 20th
and shortly before he died he made andax Signed a death bed statement
in which he accused Rosengrants as being’ his killer, An indictment
was returned and Rosengrants was arrested in a Leadville beer hall on
June 28, He maintained that he was innocent and claimed that he had
been in the Ten Mile District ab the time Langmeyer was shot and gave
the name of a man who he. said could-prove his innocence. Officers
were unable to locate the man and it was said that he had moved to
Mexico so Rosengrants was placed on trial where he entered a plea of
not guilty, Langmeyer's death-bed statement was used acai
other witnesses said that on the afternoon of June 17, Langmeyer had
ROSENGRANTS, Merrick
Rosengrants (also spelled Rosencrans and Rosencrantz), a white middle-
aged "California Gulch" miner, lived in Tennessee Park approximately
six miles from Leadville, Colo., where he had the reputation of being
an affable, honest man. On June 18, 1880, a miner named John Lang-
meyer was brought into Leadville, fatally wounded by a pistol shot
through the groin. Langmeyer said that he had returned to his cabin
on the A rkansas River and found Rosengrants in the process of ran-
sacking it. He ran with Rosengrants in pursuit firing his pistol and
one of the bullets had struck him, Langmeyer lived until June 20th
and shortly before he died he made anda Signed a death bed statement
in which he accused Rosengrants as being' his killer, An indictment
was returned and Rosengrants was arrested in a leadville beer hall on
June 28, He maintained that he was innocent and claimed that he had
been in the Ten Mile District ah the time Langmeyer was shot and gave
the name of a man who he. said could-prove his innocence. Officers
were unable to locate the man and it was said'that he had moved to
Mexico so Rosengrants was placed on trial where he entered a plea of
not guilty. lLangmeyer's death-bed statement was used agai
| other witnesses said that on the afternoon of June 17 » Langmeyer had
ROSENGRANTS, Merrick
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| other witnesses said that on the afternoon of June 17, Langmeyer had
