MARTIN, ‘Waite $.° : : Atha
"Columbia, S. C.y l-2)-1891-wWaite S, Martin, colored, was
hanged today in the jail yard for murdering in January
last, Alice McLeod, a white woman with whom he had been
living, ‘artin made a speech from the gallows, saying
that he did not intend to kill the woman and that he felt
sure of going to heaven, The drop fell at 11:12, but the
knot slipped and his neck was not broken and death ensuxed
from strangulation, At 11:22 he was pronounced dead and
the body was cut down and placed in a coffin. The execu-
tion was witnessed only by the authorized number of per-=
sons." NEWS, Galveston, Texas, )-25-1891 (6-1)
MARTIN, ‘Waite S$.’ 4
"Columbia, S. Coy -2)-1891-wWaite S, Martin, colored, was
hanged today in the jail yard for murdering in January
last, Alice McLeod, a white woman with whom he had been
living, Martin made a speech from the gallows, sying
that he did not intend to kill the woman and that he felt
sure of going to heaven, The drop fell at 11:12, but the
knot slipped and his neck was not broken and death ensuxed
from strangulation, At 11:22 he was pronounced dead and
the body was cut down and placed in a coffin. The execu~
tion was witnessed only by the authorized number of per-
sons." NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 4-25-1891 (6-l)%
MARTIN, Waite S.
"Columbia, S. C., lj-2l-1891-waite S, Martin, colored, was
hanged today in the jail yard for mrdering in January
last, Alice McLeod, a white woman with whom he had been
living. “artin made a speech from the gallows, aying
that he did not intend to kill the woman and that he felt
sure of going to heaven, The drop fell at 11:12, but the
knot slipped and his neck was not broken and death ensuxed
from strangulation, At 11:22 he was pronounced dead and
the body was cut down and placed in a coffin. The execu-
tion was witnessed only by the authorized number of per-
sons." NEWS, Galveston, Texas, -25=1891 (6-)}
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