Gloucester County NJ Archives News.....John GOOBY, Execution for Murder of George TILLER, December 26, 1821
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nj/njfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Andrea McDonald andiesez@comcast.net November 30, 2011, 11:35 pm


National Gazette December 26, 1821
Camden, Dec. 15.
On the 14th inst. The sentence of the law was executed at Woodbury Gloucester 
county, on John Gooby, for the murder of George Tiller, likewise a coloured 
person. He met his fate with a cool and resolute fortitude, drank some warm 
coffee just before he left the prison, and agreeably to his request, walked 
from thence to the gallows -- ascended the scaffold – gave the sheriff some 
instructions concerning his property, bade several farewell, and upon the 
necessary arrangements being made, the stage, upon which he stood, was cast 
from under him at twenty minutes past twelve, and the hapless mortal was 
suspended between heaven and earth, an awful spectacle to a large concourse of 
spectators, of the fatal tendency of crime and the retributive reward of the 
unnatural and heinous act of murder, After hanging about twenty-seven minutes 
his body was taken down, and interred the same afternoon.
We do not learn that this unfortunate African ever expressed any regret for 
the horrid deed he had committed, or even shed a tear over his untimely fate, 
until he arrived under the gallows, when his sensations seemed to have been 
somewhat awakened, the tears rolled down his languid cheeks; we know not their 
source, but we hope they proceeded from that of compunction. The Sheriff 
humanely wiped the tears from the prisoner’s face, and discharged his duty in 
a manner becoming the philanthropist in connexion with the officer of justice. 
It is upward of twenty years since a similar execution has occurred in this 
county, and we sincely (sic) hope that we may never have occasion to notice 
another.___ Am. Star.


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

File size: 2.2 Kb

This file is located at:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/gloucester/newspapers/goobyexec1.txt