Greene County GaArchives News.....Joe Harris Hanged November 17, 1881
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Greensboro Herald November 17, 1881
  Joe Harris expiated his crime upon the gallows on Friday last a short while 
after the hour of 12.
  We are informed that when he was lead upon the scaffold he displayed no 
excitement or alarm but displayed the same stolid indifference that 
characterized him when the sentence of death was pronounced by the Judge soon 
after his conviction. He held out his hands to be bound without the tremor of a 
muscle. Upon being told that he had a few minutes in which to make any 
statement he desired, he remarked that he had none to make. The hangman 
proceeded to do his duty and Joe was dead with a broken neck within fifteen 
minutes.
  The execution was in the jail and was witnessed by no one but the Sheriff, a 
necessary guard, the physician (Dr. Gheesling) and a few friends of the 
condemned. Among the latter was Joe's mother. That must have been a singular 
feeling that would prompt a mother to witness the execution of her son.

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