Jones-Scott-Jackson County IA Archives News.....First Hanging at Anamosa November 2, 1899
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Jackson Sentinel November 2, 1899

THE FIRST HANGING AT ANAMOSA

Charles Stegal, under sentence of death and in confinement at the Anamosa prison
awaiting execution for murder, the date for which has been fixed for Dec. 1,
next, at an hour to be determined by the Sheriff between 12 o’clock midnight,
and sunrise. Stegal is a colored gentleman and his victim was also a negro. They
quarreled over a woman. Stegal finally lying in wait for his rival, assaulted
him with a knife inflicting numerous, frightful wounds in his back and finishing
the murderous work by severing the jugular vein of his victim who bled to death
in the street in the presence of numerous witnesses. If Gov. Shaw intervenes to
commute Stegal’s fate in a term of life imprisonment it will be entirely on his
own motion, the people of Davenport being unanimous in the opinion that the
extreme penalty of the law is the only adequate punishment for Stegal’s crime.
This execution, if consummated, will be the first to mark the history of the
Anamosa penitentiary and the first legal hanging in Jones County for that
matter. The statutes require that the death penalty shall be administered within
the walls of one of the state penitentiaries after the condemned has been
confined therein for a period of not less than one year from date of sentence
and that the execution shall be under the immediate supervision of the Sheriff
of the county in which the crime for which sentence was imposed was committed.


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