| GREDLER, Marcus
"On June 12, 1860, Marcus Gredler killed Jacob Roeder
with whom he had traveled from Leavenworth, Kansas, He
killed him by cutting off his head with an axe in a camp
in the foothills. Gredler was captured and tried in Den=
ver by a People's Court, He was found guilty and hung
from a scaffold on June 15, 1860. Reportedly thecrowd
of spectators at the hanging was between 3,000 and 1,000
people." Ltr. dtd, 1-8-1982 from Steve Friesen, Museum
Instructor, Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 South Gallup
St., Littleton, Colo,, 80120, quoting from HISTORY OF DEN.
VER by Jerome Smiley, 1901, p 32.
GREDLER, Marcus
"On June 12, 1860, Marcus Gredler killed Jacob Roeder
with whom he had traveled from Leavenworth, Kansas, He
killed him by cutting off his head with an axe in a camp
in the foothills. Gredler was captured and tried in Den-
ver by a People's Court, He was found guilty and hung
from a scaffold on June 15, 1860, Reportedly thecrowd
of spectators at the hanging was between 3,000 and 1,000
people." Ltr. dtd, 1-8-1982 from Steve Friesen, Museum
Instructor, Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 South Gallup
St., Littleton, Colo,, 80120, quoting from HISTORY OF DEN.}|
VER by Jerome Smiley, 1901, p 32.
GREDLER, Marcus
"On June 12, 1860, Marcus Gredler killed Jacob Roeder
with whom he had traveled from Ieavenworth, Kansas, He
in the foothills, Gredler was captured and tried in Den-
ver by a People's Court, He was found guilty and hung
from a scaffold on June 15, 1860, Reportedly thecrowd
of spectators at the hanging was between 3,000 and 1,000
people." Ltr. dtd, 1-8-1982 from Steve Friesen, Museum
Instructor, Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 South Gallup
St., Littleton, Colo,, 80120, quoting from HISTORY OF DENA
VER by Jerome Smiley, 1901, p 32.
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