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Subject: [Old-News] New Article for United States - Delaware
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:05:42 -0600
A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex
http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642
Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=54793
Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth
Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer
Article Date: June 11 1897
Article Description: Gordy's Last Day in His Prison Cell
Article Text:
Georgetown, Del., June 10, 1897:
All arrangements were today completed for the execution of James M. Gordy, who is to be hanged at Georgetown tomorrow for the murder of his wife. Gordy is still calm and collected. Guard was increased at the jail for some fear an effort might be made to get Gordy out of jail and lynch him. The last two men sentenced to death in Sussex county escaped and never were recaptured.
Crowds of spectators are expected to arrive at daylight. Gordy will make no confession. As the scaffold was completed yesterday , Gordy looked down upon it from his cell and remarked that he was sorry he did not have the chance to help build it. He has told his counsel that he would walk like a man to the scaffold. The hanging will be at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning unless Sheriff Johnson changes his plans. The jail yard is very small and the thirty allowed spectators and additional newspaper representatives will need to be huddled together. The Rev. I. H. S. Ewell, pastor of the Georgetown M. P. Church has received a statement from Gordy which he wants read on the scaffold. It has not been decided as yet it this will be done. Gordy has request that no picture of the hsnging be made and that his body be buried near the town of Gumboro'
(Search 'Gordy" at Sussex county, Delaware for 'the rest of the story' "Murder on the Broadkill" )
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