Execution Report in Indiana

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Evansville Courier and Press
Place of publication: Evansville, IN
Date of publication: Jan 26, 1889 12:00 am
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Transcript:

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Jan. 25.-At Eutaw, Greene county, Ala., to-day, Jim Seams, a colored man, was hanged for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Autroy a year ago. Seams protested to the last that he shot the deputy in self-defense. His neck was broken by the fall.