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‘CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., HANGINGS PRIOR TO McCUE (1905)

'The several murderers who preceeded him on the scaffold
in the Charlottesville jail yard have been negroes of a
low intelligence. Those most readily recalled are Joe
Barbour, who killed an antagonist in a drunken brawl; _

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attempting to effect immoral relations; Muscoe, who shot

Po Seal, who was attempting to arrest him for a
suspected felony; Taylor Harmon, for the murder of Thomas
Thompson, a nephew of ex-Senator Thomas M. Dunn, and Jim

Douglass, who killed his mother-in-law near Earlysville,
inthe northern portion of the county." TIMES-DISPATCH,

Richmond, VA, Feb. 11, 1905 (2:36)

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., HANGINGS PRIOR TO McCUE (1905)

The several murderers who preceeded him on the scaffold
in the Charlottesville jail yard have been negroes of a
low intelligence. Those most readily recalled are Joe

Barbour, who killed an antagonist in a drunken brawl; _
Joe Terrell, who murdered a negro girl with whom he was

attempti oral relations; Muscoe, who shot

Poli Seal, who was attempting to arrest him for a
suspected felony; Taylor Harmon, for the murder of Thomas
Thompson, a nephew of ex-Senator Thomas Me Dunn, and Jim

Douglass, who killed his mother-in-law near Earlysville,
inthe northern portion of the county." TIMES-DISPATCH,

Richmond, VA, Feb. 11, 1905 (2:3.)

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., HANGINGS PRIOR TO McCUE (1905)

The several murderers who preceeded him on the scaffold
in the Charlottesville jail yard have been negroes of a

low intelligence. Those most readily recalled are Joe _
Barbour, who killed an antagonist in a drunken brawls

Seal, who was atti

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suspected felony;

Rychmond, VA, Feb. 11, 1905 (2:34)

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