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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Joshua Arnold, who murdered his wife in 1857, was hanged in Nicholasville dressed finely, smiling, and acknowledging his sentence's righteousness. He joined a hymn and reassured the sheriff. He was cousin to James H. Arnold, whose trial had a different outcome. Sheriff Major Thomas Harris and Deputy Mark Harris, now in the city, confirm the account.
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Joshua Arnold, who murdered his wife in 1857, was hung in Nicholasville. He was magnificently dressed in a fine suit of broad cloth, and he went smilingly upon the scaffold and acknowledged the righteousness of his sentence to death. The clergyman with him proposed a hymn just before the knot was tied, and Arnold joined in with great zest.
When the rope was being tied by the Sheriff, he expressed his regrets to Arnold, who said in an audible voice, "Don't mind it at all. You are only doing your duty." Joshua Arnold was a cousin to James H. Arnold, whose trial at Nicholasville resulted so differently.—Stanford Journal.
The officers alluded to above are now residents of this city, and will vouch for the truthfulness of the above. They are Major Thomas Harris, who was the Sheriff, and his son, Mark Harris, his Deputy. Major Harris is well up in years, bordering on 70, and is in the employ of Mr. Jesse Baker.
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Nicholasville
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1857
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Joshua Arnold murdered his wife in 1857 and was hanged in Nicholasville, appearing composed and cooperative during the execution. He was cousin to James H. Arnold with a different trial outcome. Sheriff Major Thomas Harris and Deputy Mark Harris confirm the events.