Meigs County OhArchives News.....Newark Daily Advocate  September 3 1887
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September 3,  1887
Newark Daily Advocate 
Newark Ohio

Josiah Terrill Dies on the  Scaffold Protesting his Innocence to the Last 

Columbus, O. Sept 3. --  Josiah Terrell, convicted of murder of an old man 
named Phelps in Meigs county  last January, was hanged about 12:30 this morning 
at the penitentiary. He  protested his innocence to the last. His neck was 
broken in the fall and life  was extinct in fifteen minutes. 

The history of the crime for which he  was is as follows: Charles Phelps, 
aged sixty-five years, and old miser living  near Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio 
was found murdered in his nut on the morning of  January 6, 1887. His throat 
had been cut and the hair of his dead was frozen to  the flood in a pool of 
blood. Terrill was arrested on suspicion and convicted by  an unbroken chain of 
circumstantial evidence, not a word of controverting  evidence being offered by 
the defendant. A hand glass and overcoat belonging to  the old man were found 
in his possession, and he was seen near the scene of the  murder on the day in 
question. For years he had been regarded as a worthless  fellow, of homadic 
disposition, his name having appeared on the criminal docket  on numerous 
occasions, although never directly charged with serious felony. He  was soon to 
have married Miss Permelin Allmade, a young lady in the  neighborhood.

[The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper  without making 
changes to spelling or grammar.]

Transcribed  by:
Connie Cotterill Schumaker  



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