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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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In Richmond on October 27, Robert Carlton alias Gibson was executed by hanging for the July 1817 murder of John Peatross. He protested innocence of the murder but confessed to robberies. The event near the penitentiary drew a record crowd and proceeded orderly.
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The execution.—Pursuant to his sentence Robert Carlton, alias Gibson, yesterday suffered the punishment of death, by hanging—for the murder of John Peatross, in July, 1817. The execution took place near the penitentiary, and was attended by a greater number of persons than ever before assembled, on any occasion, near this city. Every thing was conducted in the most orderly manner, and the spectators seemed to feel the awfulness of the scene.
Though he protested his innocence, as to the murder of Peatross, to the last, yet he confessed that he had frequently committed robberies. But he averred that he had never stained his hands with blood.
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Richmond
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Yesterday (October 27)
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robert carlton alias gibson hanged
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Pursuant to his sentence Robert Carlton, alias Gibson, yesterday suffered the punishment of death, by hanging—for the murder of John Peatross, in July, 1817. The execution took place near the penitentiary, and was attended by a greater number of persons than ever before assembled, on any occasion, near this city. Every thing was conducted in the most orderly manner, and the spectators seemed to feel the awfulness of the scene. Though he protested his innocence, as to the murder of Peatross, to the last, yet he confessed that he had frequently committed robberies. But he averred that he had never stained his hands with blood.