Mrs.John Gillis of Hattiesburg,brings the news of an awful tragedy that took place near Hattiesburg Monday night. Mrs. Dave Hathorn,while standing near an open window,with a little child in her arms,was fired upon by someone on the outside,the load of shot passing entirely through her body killing her instantly. So close was the assassin to his victim that the flame from the gun burned the child's arm. The next morning dogs were put upon the trail and was followed to the house of a negro near by who was at once arrested.. He confessed to the crime and implicated the woman's husband.. At last accounts both parties were being guarded by a posse pending the coroner's verdict.
Write up Shirley Fortenberry Ramshur
The Columbian Oct.11,1895
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Daily Public Ledger, Maysville Kentucky newspaper
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Jan 9, 1896
F.D. Hathorn, white and Thompson Wade, colored, were hanged at (New) Augusta, 20 miles inland from here, at 12:04 Wednesday, both men dropping simultaneously from the same scaffold. The execution was witnessed by at least 3,000 people, many of who walked fifteen or 20 miles and a few as far as 35 miles. This was the first legal execution in this county for nearly twenty years, and this, added to the peculiar nature of the crime, occasioned the widespread curiosity. The men were hanged for the murder of Mrs. Hathorn on the evening of Oct 7 last. The negro shooting the woman at the instigation and compulsion of the husband.
Contributed by Anonymous (#47015045)
Write up Shirley Fortenberry Ramshur
The Columbian Oct.11,1895
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Daily Public Ledger, Maysville Kentucky newspaper
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Jan 9, 1896
F.D. Hathorn, white and Thompson Wade, colored, were hanged at (New) Augusta, 20 miles inland from here, at 12:04 Wednesday, both men dropping simultaneously from the same scaffold. The execution was witnessed by at least 3,000 people, many of who walked fifteen or 20 miles and a few as far as 35 miles. This was the first legal execution in this county for nearly twenty years, and this, added to the peculiar nature of the crime, occasioned the widespread curiosity. The men were hanged for the murder of Mrs. Hathorn on the evening of Oct 7 last. The negro shooting the woman at the instigation and compulsion of the husband.
Contributed by Anonymous (#47015045)
Mrs.John Gillis of Hattiesburg,brings the news of an awful tragedy that took place near Hattiesburg Monday night. Mrs. Dave Hathorn,while standing near an open window,with a little child in her arms,was fired upon by someone on the outside,the load of shot passing entirely through her body killing her instantly. So close was the assassin to his victim that the flame from the gun burned the child's arm. The next morning dogs were put upon the trail and was followed to the house of a negro near by who was at once arrested.. He confessed to the crime and implicated the woman's husband.. At last accounts both parties were being guarded by a posse pending the coroner's verdict.
Write up Shirley Fortenberry Ramshur
The Columbian Oct.11,1895
----------------------------
Daily Public Ledger, Maysville Kentucky newspaper
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Jan 9, 1896
F.D. Hathorn, white and Thompson Wade, colored, were hanged at (New) Augusta, 20 miles inland from here, at 12:04 Wednesday, both men dropping simultaneously from the same scaffold. The execution was witnessed by at least 3,000 people, many of who walked fifteen or 20 miles and a few as far as 35 miles. This was the first legal execution in this county for nearly twenty years, and this, added to the peculiar nature of the crime, occasioned the widespread curiosity. The men were hanged for the murder of Mrs. Hathorn on the evening of Oct 7 last. The negro shooting the woman at the instigation and compulsion of the husband.
Contributed by Anonymous (#47015045)
Write up Shirley Fortenberry Ramshur
The Columbian Oct.11,1895
----------------------------
Daily Public Ledger, Maysville Kentucky newspaper
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Jan 9, 1896
F.D. Hathorn, white and Thompson Wade, colored, were hanged at (New) Augusta, 20 miles inland from here, at 12:04 Wednesday, both men dropping simultaneously from the same scaffold. The execution was witnessed by at least 3,000 people, many of who walked fifteen or 20 miles and a few as far as 35 miles. This was the first legal execution in this county for nearly twenty years, and this, added to the peculiar nature of the crime, occasioned the widespread curiosity. The men were hanged for the murder of Mrs. Hathorn on the evening of Oct 7 last. The negro shooting the woman at the instigation and compulsion of the husband.
Contributed by Anonymous (#47015045)
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