Shelby County AlArchives News.....For Robbery Dorsey Swung. March 30, 1903
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Linda Blum-Barton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000645 March 25, 2006, 5:31 pm

The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. March 30, 1903
Birmingham, Ala., March 27. -- Will Dorsey, colored, was hanged here today at 
11:59 a.m. for highway robbery, it being the first instance in the state's 
history where the death penalty has been imposed for this crime.

Dorsey was convicted for entering the home of David McNamara, a mine operator, 
near Pratt mines, three years ago, and shooting down McNamara, and robbing the 
place.  McNamara, though badly wounded, recovered.

Dorsey claimed that the shooting was done by another negro, but did not deny 
complicity in the crime.  He met death stoically.  

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/shelby/newspapers/forrobbe894gnw.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/

File size: 1.2 Kb