Sentence of Death
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Title
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Sentence of Death
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Publisher
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Alex E. Glenn
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Place
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Rising Sun, IN
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Date
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5 Dec 1835
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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December 1835
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Description
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Text of the article, "Sentence of death- this awful sentence was pronounced, at the term of Boone Circuit Court, which terminated a few days since, by his Honor Henry O. Brown, upon Elvira, a mulatto girl belonging to Harrison Hawkins, for the murder of her infant child. This horrid deed was perpetrated upon the infant, immediately after its birth, by thrusting it violently under a pile of wood lying in the cellar of the house, thereby mashing its hed in such a way, that instant death was the consequence. The inhuman creature recieved the awful denunciation of the law without any emotions of sorrow or fear. The execution is to take place at Burlington on Friday the 11th day of December next.; Covington Enq."
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Accessed online at Hoosier State Chronicles
Sentence of Death