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The Hillsborough Recorder
Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina
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In Newbern, Jim Smith, a coloured man, was executed yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He initially showed sullen indifference to spiritual concerns but became more decorous and devoted in his final days.
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Execution.—Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the sentence of death passed on Jim Smith, a coloured man, was carried into effect in the vicinity of this town. He evinced, until within a few days of his execution, a sullen indifference to the concerns of eternity, and resisted the benevolent intentions of the clerical gentlemen who visited him: but as the time of his execution approached, his conduct became more decorous, and the last two days of his life appeared to be employed in devotional exercises.
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Newbern
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Yesterday Afternoon At 2 O'clock
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sentence of death carried into effect
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He evinced, until within a few days of his execution, a sullen indifference to the concerns of eternity, and resisted the benevolent intentions of the clerical gentlemen who visited him: but as the time of his execution approached, his conduct became more decorous, and the last two days of his life appeared to be employed in devotional exercises.