William Black Executed for Criminal Outrage
Item
- Title
- William Black Executed for Criminal Outrage
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 9/1/00
- page
- 5
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89053684/1900-09-01/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Criminal Assault; Hanged; 15 year old girl
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Sentencing
- Location
- Out of State, Belaire MD
- Length of story
- 83
- Description
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Belaire, Md., Aug. 31.—William Black,
colored, was hanged here at 7:4l o'clock
this morning. He met death with considerable calmness, although he was plainly very nervous on his way to the scaffold. and has for several days' past been
In a state bordering on complete collapse.
Black died for a criminal assault committed on Miss Jessie Bradford, a 13-
year-old girl, who lived near Aberdeen,
this county. Great precautions were taken
to, avoid lynching. which was feared
even at the last moment.