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Executed

Name not reported

County Jail

A Black soldier from a colored regiment, held in the County Jail after a military court-martial, was taken from his cell the morning after his trial, placed in a wagon with three other men and driven to the edge of town, where a crowd and his regiment had gathered. According to the Morning Call's account of April 17, 1891, a firing squad of soldiers shot him while he sat on his coffin, and the men were buried together in a shared grave. The account gives no name or age for him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: military court-martial (court).

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