NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE, New Orleans, La., June 16, 1877
Atlanta OONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga., June 17, 1887
NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE, New Orleans, La., June 16, 1877
Atlanta OONSIITUTION, Atlanta, Ga., June 17, 1807
CAYINE, New Orleans, Las, June 16, 1877
DON? HUTTON Atlanta, Ga,, June 17, 18
" AVEQUE, Adrian
Aveque, a 20year-old, mulatto, described as being “tall and robust
in stature," was a resident of New Orleans, Pa. wh ere, onthe night
of Feb, 6, 1876, he and his half-brother, Godein, attended a dance
in a hall located on the corner of Claiborne and Ursiline Streets,
Aveque, who had been drinking, got into an argument with another
black man, Richard Turner, ahd he drew a pistol and shot and killed
Turner who was unarmed, Aveque and Godcin fled New Orelans together
but both were captured the next day at Baton Rouge and returned for
trial with Aveque being charged with the murder and Godcin with being
an accessory, Both were convicted and sentenced to die and the con-
victions were affirmed on appeal but the Governor commutbd Godcin's
sentence to two-years' imprisonment, After his conviction, Aveque
spent most of histime reading the Bible and in religious meditations,
On the morning of his execution, his mother and Godcin were allowed to
visit him in his cell for a few minutes and he remarked to Godcin that
he would die bravely and as a Christina, This he did and he was by
far the more composed of the two other men executed with him from the
same scaffold which was erected on the northern wall of the court
yard in the Parish Prison Jail at New Orleans on June 15, 1877. His’
neck was broken by the fall, 29 LOUISIANA ANN, VIII (Not reported),
AVEQUE. Adrian
Aveque, a 20“year-old, mulatto, described as being "tall and robust
in stature," was a resident of New Orleans, “a,, where, on the night
of Feb, 6, 1876, he and his half-brother, Godcin, attended a dance
in a hall located on the corner of Claiborne and Ursiline Streets,
Aveque, who had been drinking, got into an argument with another
black man, Richard Turner, ahd he drew a pistol and shot and killed
Turner who was unarmed, Aveque and Godcin fled New Orelans together
but both were captured the next day at Baton Rouge and returned for
trial with Aveque being charged with the murder and Godein with being
an accessory, Both were convicted and sentenced to die and the con-
victions were affirmed on appeal but the Governor commutkd Godcin's
sentence to two-years' imprisonment, After his conviction, Aveque
spent most of histime reading the Bible and in religious meditations,
On the morning of his execution, his mother and Godcin were allowed to
visit him in his cell for a few minutes and he remarked to Godcin that
he would die bravely and as a Christian, This he did and he was by
far the more composed of the two other men executed pos him from the
same scaffold which was erected on the northern wall of the court ae
yard in the Parish Prison Jail at New Orleans on June 15, 1877. His
neck was broken by the fall, 29 LOUISIANA ANN, VIII (Not reported),
AVEQUE, Adrian
Aveque, a 20-year-old, mlatto, described as being "tall and robust
in stature," was a resident of New Orleans, whee, on the night
of Feb, 6, 1876, he and his half-brother, Godcin, attended a dance
in a hall located on the corner of Claiborne and Ursiline Streets,
Aveque, who had been drinking, got into an argument with another
black man, Richard Turner, ahd he drew a pistol and shot and killed
Turner who was unarmed, Aveque and Godcin fled New Orelans together
but both were captured the next day at Baton Rouge and returned for
ee with Aveque being charged with ae murder and Godein with being
i to die and the con-
fictions nieve eeeimiedten appeal but the Governor commtkd Godcin's
sentence to two-y After his Aveque
spent most of histime reading the Bible oe religious meditations,
e the morning of his execution, his mother and Godcin were allowed to]
t him in his cell for a few minutes and he remarked to Godcin that
He Gaulayate pearl and as a Christisa, This he did and he was by
far the nore composed of the tuo other men, executed with pin from the
une ieoat folarynich asi erestedi amine on diacrtnet ite
yard in the Parish Prison Jail at New Orleans on June 15, “et. “nie
neck was broken by the fall, 29 LOUISIANA ANN. VIII (Not reported),
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