Executed
William Boddie
Wm. Boddle was hanged in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, on April 28, 1876, as a judicial execution, according to a special dispatch to the American in Nashville. The account says about three thousand people gathered despite bad weather, and that he was taken from the jail under guard to the gallows, where the fall broke his neck. The Dallas Daily Herald reported that he died protesting his innocence, and that a Black minister gave him spiritual consolation before his death. The Helena Weekly Herald's report of the same hanging describes him as showing no fear at the gallows.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the American (Nashville), special dispatch from Tuscumbia (reporters).