Ed Nichols, 1894 January 12

fully appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and, after KKK
Gov, Hogg had granted one brief respite, he was hanged in a private
ceremony in the County Jail at Austin on January 12, 189),

SAN ANTONIO DAILY LIGHT, San Antonio, Texas, January 12, 189);
23 SOUTHWESTERN 680

fully appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and, after HK
Gov. Hogg had granted one brief respite, he was hanged in a private
ceremony in the County Jail at Austin on January 12, 189),,

SAN ANTONIO DAILY LIGHT, San Antonio, Texas, January 12, 189)

23 SOUTHWESTERN 680
"MEANS THE DEATH PENALTY: Austin, Tex., May .6.-In the xx
case of kd Nichols, the negro who asgsested for assaulting
the little Bohemian girl, Anna Skeinser, on thé 3lst of
March near W ebberville, in this county, the jury of the
district court, before which he was tried, rendered a ver
dict today finding him guilty as charged, which involved
the death penalty." GLOBE¥DEMOCRAT, St. Louis, Mo.,
Maye (eee Oar

fully appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and, after Six
Gov. Hogg had granted one brief respite, he was hanged in a private

in the County Jail at Austin on January 12, 189),

cerenony

SAN ANTONIO DAILY LIGHT, San Antonio, Texas, January 12, 189),
23 SOUTHWESTERN 680
"MEANS THE DEATH PENALTY: Austin, Tex,, May .6,

the negro who aprested for a
the little Bohemian girl, Anna Skeinser, on thé 31s
seach near W ebberville, in this county, the jury of

ct court, before

aie today finding him guilty as charged, which involved
the death penalty," GLOBE“DEMOCRAT, St. Louis, Mo.,
May 17, 1893,

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‘NICHOLS, Ed. : January 12, 1894

“Nichols, a ofmyecar-old black man, worked as a tenant farmer in the
lower portion of Travis County, Texas, Around 5 o'clock on the after-
noon of March 31, 1893, he was phowing in a field bordering on the
Cedar Creek Road when he noticed ll-year=old Annie Straka, a Bohemian

_girl who had emigrated to the United States with her parents three

/years previously and was unable to speak English, wakking to her home

following a visit to the residence of an uncle, Nichols followed and

| overtook her at a wooded hollow into which he dragged her and forcibly
\raped her, As she was to undeveloped for him toPaccomplish his pur-
pose, he used his hands to tear her sexual organs and effect penetra-
‘tion, After he had left, the critically wounded girl crawled 3/li's of
a mile through some brush in an effort to reach home and fell exhausted
in her father's field where he found her shortly afterwards, Officers
trailed Nichols from the scene of the assault to a water-hole where he
had knelt and washed his hands. He was arrested shortly afterwards
and his handprints were found to match those at the waterhole and mud
on his boots matched the mud there, The front of his clothing was
bloodshained and Miss Straka positively identified him when he was

brought before her, At his trial, he offered an alibi, claiming that

he had not left the field where he was plowing, but it was unsubstantia4
ted and he was convicted and sentenced to die, The case was unsuccess~

I NICHOLS, Ed. January 12, 1894
| Nichols, a 2f-year-old black man, worked as a tenant farmer in the
lower portion of Travis County, Texas, Around 5 o'clock on the after=
noon of March 31, 1893, he was phowing in a field bordering on the
Cedar Creek Road when he noticed ll-year-old Annie Straka, a Bohemian
| girl who had emigrated to the United States with her parents three
years previously and was unable to speak Ehglish, wakking to her home
following a visit to the residence of an uncle, Nichols followed and
overtook her at a wooded hollow into which he dragged her and forcibly
}raped her, As she was to undeveloped for him toPaccomplish his pur=
pose, he used his hands to tear her sexual organs and effect penetra-
/tion, After he had left, the critically wounded girl crawled 3/'s of
a mile through some brush in an effort to reach home and fell exhausted
in her father's field where he found her shortly afterwards, Officers
trailed Nichols from the scene of the assault to a water-hole where he
had kntlt and washed his hands, He was arrested shortly afterwards
and his handprints were found to match those at the waterhole and mud
on his boots matched the mud there. The front of his clothing was
bloodshained and Miss Straka positively identified him when he was
brought before her, At his trial, he offered an alibi, claiming that
he had not Left the field where he was plowing, but it was unsubstantia4
ted and he was convicted and sentenced to dies The case was unsuccess-

NrcHOTS, Ea, January 12, 1894

Nichols, a 2f-year-old black man, worked as a tenant farmer in the
lower portion of Travis County, Texas. Around 5 o'clock on the after=
noon of March 31, 1893, he was paowing in a field bordering on the
Cedar Creek Road when he noticed ll-year-old Annie Straka, a Bohemian
girl vho had emigrated to the United States with her parents three
years previously and was unable to speak Mnglish, watking to her home
following a visit to the residence of an uncle, Nichols followed and
overtook her at a wooded hollow into which he dragged her and forcibly
raped her. As she was to undeveloped for him to)accomplish his pur=
pose, he used his hands to tear her sexual organs and effect penetra-
tion, After he had left, the critically wounded girl crawled 3/\\'s of
a mile through some brush in an effort to reach home and fell exhausted|
in her father's field where he found her shortly afterwards, Officers
trailed Nichols from the scene of the assault to a water-hole where he
had knblt and washed his hands, He was arrested shortly afterwards
and his handprints were found to match those at the waterhole and mud
on his boots matched the mud there, The front of his clothing was
bloodshained and Miss Straka positively identified him when he was
brought before her, At his trial, he offered an alibi, claiming that
he had not left the field where he was plowing, but it was unsubstantia.
ed and he was convicted and sentenced to die, The case was unsuccess=