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2 stories matching ascend

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  1. ‘You Are Hanging an Innocent Man’: A Condemned Killer’s Last Words Before 4,000 Witnesses

    Ezra Snoderly, one of the Cummins murderers, is hanged in Dayton’s courthouse square — insisting to the very end that he dies for another man’s crime, while the crowd judges him ‘game.’

    Aug 9, 1883Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerDayton, Columbia CountyTrue Crime

  2. Masked Vigilantes Hang a Convicted Murderer in Dayton Jail

    James McPherson, convicted of murdering E. H. Cummins at New York Bar, was taken from the Dayton jail by masked men and hanged, despite a governor's reprieve and a new trial order.

    Aug 8, 1883Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerDayton, Columbia CountyTrue Crime

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