Executed
James Horace Jones
James Horace Jones was a Catholic who, the night before his execution, wrote a will in his cell leaving his body to his spiritual advisor and asking that it be buried decently and protected from mutilation. He was hanged at the Troy jail in New York on the morning of August 13, 1885. According to the Savannah Morning News, he walked to the scaffold with a steady step, and the drop fell at 10:30. He was pronounced dead about twelve minutes later.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Troy jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.