Show CURSED FROM THE gallowa murderer alel on scaffold cum ing of th execution ashley cocke and lauderdale were hanged at glena lie miss in the presence of 6 00 people for the murder of engineer G W wray after the death barrant had been read to the men in then cells cocke yelled through the window to the gleat crowd which had gathered outside oh damn you don t be impatient we are coining when the sheriff and the doomed men mounted the scaffold coeke again began to berate those about him and turning to the crowd sa 1 it e all a plot to kill me damn you all damn everybody I 1 m goesta die like a man lam killed for mth ng but I 1 am tl e bravest man in the state ot mississippi impre is sll wait ing for anyone who hilll ill the eleven men who made th s plot I 1 will be re avenged for every one of these eleven will be killed and no quest ons will be asked they have mu dered me but revenge revenge revenge before he could say more the black caps were adjusted are you both ready asked the sheriff yes yelled cocke through tl e foidel of black damn you people ot greenville go to hell all of you the trap was sprung and the men dropped into space he two men had murdered an engineer the ann cnn e be ng a cold blooded one |