COLLINS, Anthony ("Tone")
Anthony ("Tone't) Collins, black, hanged, Reidsville,
fatnall County, Georgia, on May 16, 1879, for the murder
of an infant. The gallows were erected 3/) of a mile
from Reidsville and the exectuion was witnessed by be~
tween two and three thousand persons, Driven to the
scaffold on a wagon, seated on his coffin and guarded
by 12 men, An immense crowd followed, Mounted gallows
with "alacrity" and made a rambling speech in a voice so
low that it was bare audible,
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, June 1h, 1879 (h-1)
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COLLINS, Anthony (''Tonet!)
Anthony ("Tone") Collins, black, hanged, Reidsville,
Tatnall County, Georgia, on May 16, 1879, for the murder
of an infant. The gallows were erected 3/4 of a mile
from Reidsville and the exectuion was witnessed by be-
tween two and three thousand persons, Driven to the
scaffold on a wagon, seated on his coffin and guarded
by 12 men, An immense crowd followed, Mounted gallows
with "alacrity" and made a rambling speech in a voice so
low that it was bare audible,
NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, June 1h, 1879 (hi-1)
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COLLINS, Anthony ("Tone')
Anthony ("Tone") Collins, black, hanged, Reidsville,
nty, Ge
of an infant.
orgia, on May 16, 1879, for the murder
The gallows were erected 3/ of a mile
from Reidsville and the exectuion was witnessed by be-
tween two and three thousand persons,
scaffold on a wagon
-ven to the
n, seated on his coffin and guarded
4n immense crowd followed, Mounted gallows
ity" and made a rambling speech in a voice so
low that it was bare audib!
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June lh, 1879 (1-1)
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