Domingo Lours, MD, 1802 September 7

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Pardon Record of the Governor & Council
1802-1803. Box 10 Folder #2

Source:

Pardon Record of the Governor & Council
1802-1803. Box 10 Folder #2

Source: Pardon Record of the Governor & Council
1802-1803. Box 10 Folder #2

Domingo Lours 1802

Offence: Murder

Location: Baltimore

Result: Hanged Sept. 7th 1802

Details: Lours was a Hispanic sailor who got in-

to a brawl on the night of 5-23-02 dur-
ing which he stabbed to death a white man named James
Jones. There was agitation for a reprieve on the
grounds that he was a stranger unfamilar with Mary-
land law. But the Governor indignantly replied that

the law against murder was 'universal"' and ordered
him for execution.

Domingo Lours 1802

Offence: Murder

Location: Baltimore

Result: Hanged Sept. 7th 1802

Details: Lours was a Hispanic sailor who got in-

to a brawl on the night of 5-23-02 dur-
ing which he stabbed to death a white man named James
Jones. There was agitation for a reprieve on the
grounds that he was a stranger unfamilar with Mary-
land law. But the Governor indignantly replied that
the law against murder was ‘universal’ and ordered
him for execution.

Domingo Lours

Offenc! Murder
Location: Baltimore
Result: Hanged Sept. 7th 1802

Details: Lours was a Hispanic sailor who got in-

oa brawl on the night of 5-23-02 dur-
ing which he stabbed to death a white man named James
Jones. There was agitation for a reprieve on the
grounds that he was a stranger unfamilar with Mary-
land law. But the Governor indignantly replied that
the law against murder was ‘universal’ and ordered
him for execution.

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