Samuel Johnston

Samuel Johnston, a 22-year-old Black man, was hanged in the jail yard at Hagerstown, Md., under a sentence of death. The Kootenai Herald reported the execution on December 16, 1899, and the Cottonwood Report carried a shorter account the day before. The accounts give his age and the place and method of his death, and say nothing more about his life.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Hagerstown jail yard (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

Sources (2)

• Cottonwood Report, December 15, 1899, page 2 Cottonwood Report, December 15, 1899
• The Kootenai Herald, December 16, 1899, page 7 The Kootenai Herald, December 16, 1899