Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Marks, Carlton H., 1891 

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  DEATH ENDS HIS CASE. - Carleton H. Marks, who 
shot and killed N. M. Bain, a prominent citizen 
of Sussex county, on the 5th day of March, 1889, 
for an alledged insult to his young sister, died 
at the hotel at Courtland, the county seat of 
Southampton, Saturday morning at eleven o'clock, 
of malarial fever.  Marks was twice convicted.  At 
his first trial the jury gave him ten years in the 
penitentiary. At his last trial, which was in the 
County Court of Sussex, in December 1890, he was 
sentenced to ten years and eight months in the 
penitentiary.  The Circuit Court was asked to grant 
a new trial, and refused.  Then the case was taken 
to the Court of Appeals, and was set for hearing on 
the 15th of December next.  Marks has been in jail 
ever since his trial and conviction.  Saturday a 
week ago, Governor McKinney pardoned him on account 
of ill health.  The death of Marks ends one of the 
most noted criminal cases in the history of Virginia. 


Carlton H. MARKS, pardoned murderer-  
convicted of killing N.M. BAIN of Sussex Co., 5 Mar 1889, 
d. 26 Sep 1891, Courtland, 
"Alexandria (VA) Gazette," Sep. 28, 1891 (Vol. 92, No. 231), 
   p. 2, col. 2 

He does not appear in the Southampton Co. Death Records (1853-1890). 


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Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com) [line breaks mine]  

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