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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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On Sept. 10 in Baltimore, mail robbers John Alexander and Joseph Thompson Hare were publicly executed by hanging before a large crowd, serving as a lesson on law obedience. Hare's confession pamphlet details his 14-year criminal career.
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BALTIMORE, SEPT. 10.
This day about 11 o'clock, in the prison yard in this city, the awful sentence of the law was executed on John Alexander and Joseph Thompson Hare, convicted of robbing the mail of the United States. A vast concourse of spectators attended on this melancholy occasion, to witness the fatal consequence of disobedience to the laws. A solemn lesson which, it is to be hoped, will not fail to make a due impression.
The gallows was erected so high that the melancholy spectacle could be distinctly seen by the multitude of spectators.
The dying confession of Hare, written by himself, is published by Mr. Joseph Robinson, at No. 94, Baltimore-street, in a Pamphlet of twenty pages. In this he gives a very interesting history of his life and crimes, and in the Conclusion, says "For the last fourteen years of my life I have been a high-way robber, and have robbed on a larger scale and been more successful than any robber either in Europe or in this country, that I have ever heard of."-Bal. Fed. Gaz.
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Baltimore
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Sept. 10.
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john alexander and joseph thompson hare were executed by hanging in the prison yard.
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About 11 o'clock, John Alexander and Joseph Thompson Hare, convicted of robbing the mail of the United States, were executed in the prison yard in Baltimore. A vast concourse of spectators witnessed the event. The gallows was erected high for visibility. Hare's dying confession, detailing his life as a highway robber for 14 years, is published in a pamphlet by Mr. Joseph Robinson.