Executed
Wm. Boddle
Wm. Boddle was hanged in Tuscumbia on April 28, 1876, in a judicial execution. According to the Nashville American, about three thousand people gathered to watch as he was taken from the jail under guard to a gallows near the edge of town. The paper reported that a Black minister gave him spiritual consolation before he died, and that he said he was going straight to heaven. The paper also reported that he protested his innocence to the end, and that the fall broke his neck.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. The American (Nashville) reported that he died protesting his innocence.
Reported by: the American (Nashville) (reporters).