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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Remarkable execution. (search)
s executed at Leakesville, N. C., on the 7th inst., for the murder of Peggy Aisley, a young woman whom he was charged with having seduced, and whose body he was said to have burnt. The only traces of the deceased ever found were some hair-pins and charred human bones, supposed to be hers, which were discovered in the prisoner's log-pile. On the scaffold Williams protested his innocence, and said he forgave the jury, as he would have given the same verdict himself on the same evidence, Rev. R. Shrieve, the uncle of the condemned man, officiated at the gallows, and, in the course of some remarks made before his prayer, said that the prisoner, his nephew, had given him evidence, twenty years ago, that he was a child of grace, and that he believed it now. He prayed fervently in behalf of his "unfortunate brother" in Christ; said that "if he were guilty, may he repent." After the conclusion of his prayer, the prisoner then shook hands with his friends.--This last act affected him greatly