Joe Williams, CA, 1869

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WILLIAMS, Joe

"The first legal hanging (in Placerville, Calif.) was in
1869 when Joe Williams, a negro, was placed atop his own
coffin and driven to his ple of execution by a wagon
team, This pulled up under a scaffold made of logs, At
the command of 'Get up,! the negro dangled in the breeze,"

BILL KELLEE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUNMEN by Bill Kelley. P318
(in law library)

WILLIAMS, Joe

"The first legal hanging (in Placerville, Calif.) was in
1869 when Joe Williams, a negro, was placed atop his ow
coffin and driven to his pl-ce of execution by a wagon
team, This pulled up under a scaffold made of logs, At
the command of 'Get up,' the negro dangled in the breeze,"

BILL KELLEE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUNMEN by Bill Kelley. P318
(in law library)

WILLIAMS, Joe

"The first legal hanging (in Placerville, Calif.) we
1869 when Joe Williams, a negro, was a atop his own
offin and driven to his pl-ce of execution by a wagon
team, This faa up under EEG EEOC gh

the command of 'Get up,' the negro dangled in the br

BILL KELLEE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUNMEN by Bill Kelley.
(in law Library)



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