Deaths in Custody
Executed

Guilford Register

18 years old · died April 19, 1867 · Putnam County jail, Putnam County

Guilford Register, a young man said to be 18 years old, was held in the Putnam County jail in Palatka while awaiting execution. On April 19, 1867, he was taken from the jail in a wagon to a scaffold erected in town and hanged in public.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: local news account (1910 retrospective article on Putnam County executions) (reporters).

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