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Day in the Life

Dec 22, 1863

Journal Entry

December 22, 1863 ~ Tuesday

22nd. I spent the fore part of the day in writing my report to the Legislature
in the afternoon I attended the court & heard the Judge Elias Smith
sentence Jason Luce, who had been tried for murder & rendered
Guilty of murder, in the first degree by a Jury of 12 men. The
Judge sentenced him to be shot on Tuesday the 12 of January
He made a few remarks & tryed to Justify himself by saying that
what he done He done in self defence &c when he was taken down
into his sell he wept like a child he told his brother that if He
was Executed he must remember that Wm Hickman was the
cause & that he was now deserting him. Hickman & party are
holding out the hope to him that He will be reprieved

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Smith, Elias
6 Sep 1804 - 24 Jun 1888
182 mentions
11 mentions
Hickman, William A.
16 Apr 1815 - 21 Aug 1883
25 mentions

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Dec 22, 1863