On this date in 1884, a Louisiana man named Noah Jackson was hanged at Lake Providence for beating in the brains of his 15-year-old wife during a fit of jealousy. (She’d been only 13 years old when they married.)
Meanwhile, in Corsicana, Tx., Harrison Williams hanged for murdering his sister-in-law Ada Sallard.
“The particulars in the murder case,” reported the Dallas Weekly Herald on June 28, 1883, “are as follows:”
Munroe Sallard and Harrison Williams, two colored men living on adjoining farms about five miles from town, married sisters. Williams has been abusing his wife ever since their marriage; on Monday morning Williams beat his wife in a brutal manner, and on being remonstrated with by her sister, Mrs. Sallard, told her that if she said a word he would kill her. Mrs. Sallard started for town on horseback to have him arrested, and when near the fairgrounds on her way home was way-laid by Williams, who took her from her horse, tied a handkerchief around her throat and then mashed her head to a shapeless mass with his boot heel. He then secreted her body in the woods, and went to her house and occupied the same bed with her husband, leaving yesterday morning [meaning June 26]. Since then he has not been seen. Her body was discovered in the woods yesterday evening, and last night an armed posse of negroes went in search of the murderer. If caught he will certainly dangle.
He sure did.
On this day..
- 1524: The rulers of the K'iche' kingdom
- 1679: Four at Tyburn
- 1829: Jane Jameson
- 1764: John Prince, dissembler
- 1748: William Whurrier, War of Austrian Succession veteran
- 1562: Michael Lindener, poet laureate
- 1968: Veyusile Qoba, the last of the Langa Six
- 1905: Two murderers beheaded in French Indochina
- 1811: Thomas White and John Newbolt Hepburn of the Vere Street Coterie
- 1842: Maketu Wharetotara, New Zealand's first execution
- 1937: Alexander Yulevich Tivel
- 203: Perpetua, the earliest Christian woman whose writings survive