A Fiend Hanged
Item
- Title
- A Fiend Hanged
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1882-08-26
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1882-08-26/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; Little Girl
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Mob
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Location
- Out of State, Newcastle DE
- Length of story
- 35
- Description
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Newcastle, Del., August 25.—James
Redden, alias Jim Loot, was hanged here at
10:17 o’clock this morning, for the rape of
Utile sallie Purse, near Odessa, Delaware,
in February last. He died in eleven minutes.