Executed
Alfred Weisinger
Alfred Weisinger, a Black man, was hanged at Selma, Alabama, according to an April 1882 report in the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer. That report says he made a long speech on the scaffold protesting his innocence. A Gloucester County Democrat account of the hanging at Selma, which gives the name as A Weisinger, says he and William Ledlow declared they were innocent.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Newspaper accounts say he protested his innocence on the scaffold, and that he and William Ledlow declared they were innocent.
Reported by: newspaper accounts of the Selma hanging (reporters).