2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Rare ticket for the “Execution of Thomas J. Chapman, At Charleston, Ill. Jan. 23, 1885.” Admiting Lee Shrever, and signed by “Jas. Hamilton, Sheriff”. Fine. According to a newspaper article of the time entitled “A Murderer Hanged.” “Thomas J. Chapman, the murdered of Nicholas Hubbard, in Humboldt, Coles County, last August, was hanged here at 2 o’clock this afternoon, having previously confessed the crime. He had nothign to say on the scaffold, not even a prayer being offered. His neck was broken by the fall, and he died in eight minutes. Chapman worked for Hubbard, a wealthy bachelor farmer, and killed the latter on his returning home from a camp meeting. The object of the murder was robbery.
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