Executed
Jenkins
Jenkins was hanged in the old jail yard at Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware, one of three people hanged together from a single scaffold, according to a writer in the Milford Chronicle in 1925 who recalled the event from about sixty years earlier. The writer reported that Jenkins's body was buried in a thicket near Georgetown. The same account describes a later rumor that medical students had taken the bodies for dissection.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the writer's recollection of the Georgetown jail yard hanging.