Wiley Harpe, MS, 1804 February 8

efore write up see OPTLAMS OF CAVESIN-ROOK by Rothert,
Untases Wiad efees ra gna Winally shot by a-posseand
paralyzed from the waist down and Slowly decapitated..wit
\ya dull knife by ZEKE a man whose wife and infant he had
‘murdered, Wiley Harpe escaped and for five years served
“NS a lieutenant of the notorious outlaw Samuel Mason,
\\Finally Harpe and another of Mason's men, James May,
killed their leader and took his head to Natchez, X8kX
to claim a $1,000, reward. There Harpe was identified
and he and May were convicted of mrder and robbery and
hanged on Bebruary 8, 180). Their heads were decapitated
and their bodies buried in the Natchez Cemetary, So in-
dignant were the local residents, that they moved the
aves of their relatives rather than have them burie
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Before write up see OUTLAWS OF CAVE<IN=ROCK by Pothert,
Pa

Untgsstar RWiteae res “t#oSnas (Pinally shot by a.posseand
paralyzed from the waist down and slowly. decapitated wit

\2 dull knife by ¥K8 a man whose wife and infant he had

3 ‘murdered, Wiley Harpe escaped and for five years served
Nes a lieutenant of the notorious outlaw Samuel Mason.

N inally Harpe and another of Mason's men, James May,

‘3 killed their leader and took his head to Natchez, TSKK
to claim a $1,000. reward. There Harpe was identified
and he and May were convicted of murder and robbery and
hanged on Bebruary 8, 180, Their heads were decapitated
and their bodies buried in the Natchez Cemetary, So in-

} dignant were the local residents, that they moved the

aves of their relatives rather than have them burie

: hear Wiley Harpee resi Se; 7 Jy bibayUs-26 ty oy
Spawn of Evil by Paul I,’ Wellman and “estern Badmen by
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his head to Natchez, TaKK

There Harpe was identified

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~nor child. Not content with just killing, they enjoyed ~
mutilating the bodies and one of their trademarks was to

most sadistic and bloodthirsty murderers in the history of
the United States beginning their career as highwaymen in-
the. frontier areas of Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1790's.
With their three mistresses whom they shared, they ranged
~-the-afea, robbing and killing for the sheer pleasure of it,

Stones and_consign. them-te a river

There is no way of knowing the’ exact number of victims who
fell prey to this twosome who spared neither man, woman

disembowel their victims, fill the Podguigal cavitie

g-Harpe- Sven: ei toy
one of the children born to one of their mistresses by . _
~pashing its head against a tree when the intant’s Crying

 sifakist ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERTCAN GRIME, p 313 (My Library
iA, Wiley (Little Harpe) .% 475 Pegor :
(G1— 4 freaeey Y Westighgyt YM, ae.

Harpe and his brother Micajah (Big Harpe) were two..of.-the.
most sadistic and bloodthirsty murderers in the history of
-the United States beginning their career as highwaymen in
the, frontier areas of Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1790's
With their three mistresses whom they shared, they ranged
the-afea, robbing and-killing for the sheer pleasure of it,

There is no way of knowing the’ exact number of victims who
fell prey to this twosome who spared neither man, woman
-nor- child. Not content with just killing, they enjoyed
mutilating the bodies and one of their trademarks was to _
“disembowel their victims, fill the abdomi iti i
ie vn eigentor cavities with.

_.Stones_and_consign them- a-river.

one of the children born to one of thei ig tre Wate
bashing its “head against a tree ‘when the inrane? 8 Bite:

arpe- even

ifakist ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN GRIME, p 313 (My library]
fh Pao a) oats

8y (little Harp.

disembowel their victims, fi11 the abdoni
| stones and consign then to a rivor/ Boe aby

one of the children born to f their mi
‘bashing its head against a’ tres when tne TaPesets Bying

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