The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks: The Pirate and Murderer, Executed on Bedloe's Island, New York Bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the Murder of Capt. Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts, on Board the Oyster Sloop E. A. Johnson. Containing the History of His Life (Written by Himself) from Childhood Up to the Time of His Arrest. With a Full Account of His Piracies, Murders, Mutinies, High-way Robberies, etc., Comprising the Particulars of Nearly One Hundred Murders! to whicHicks, Albert W.
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The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks: The Pirate and Murderer, Executed on Bedloe's Island, New York Bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the Murder of Capt. Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts, on Board the Oyster Sloop E. A. Johnson. Containing the History of His Life (Written by Himself) from Childhood Up to the Time of His Arrest. With a Full Account of His Piracies, Murders, Mutinies, High-way Robberies, etc., Comprising the Particulars of Nearly One Hundred Murders! to whic
Hicks, Albert W.
Burr, Capt. (George H.), -1860; Hicks, Albert W., approximately 1820-1860 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Piracy) -- New York (State) -- New York; Watts, Oliver, -1860; Watts, Smith, -1860
_Cross-examined._—I had never seen him before, to my knowledge; I cannot
tell exactly how he was dressed, nor whether he had whiskers; I should
think the man was about five feet eight inches; I did not take
particular notice of his height; he said he was on the William Tell, and
had been run into that morning in the lower bay.
To the COURT.—Next saw the prisoner at the police station-house;
identified him there by his face; he was not pointed out to me by any
one.
To Mr. GRAVES.—To the best of my belief, he is the man I saw at
Vanderbilt’s landing; I would not like to swear right up and down that
he is the man.
FRANKLIN E. HAWKINS deposed that he is captain of the sloop Sirocco; I
knew Captain Burr and the Watts boys; heard Captain Burr say he was
going to write a letter home; saw the prisoner on board the sloop E. A.
Johnson; my vessel was lying at Coney Island, and the sloop Johnson was
lying at the same place; on the Sunday before she sailed I went out with
her; Johnson came ashore in the yawl boat on the evening before the
sloop sailed; Richard Eldridge took the letter from Captain Burr to his
home in Islip; Captain Burr had dark hair; one of the Watts boys had
light hair and the other a little darker; I do not know Captain Burr’s
watch.
_Cross-examined._—The prisoner met me when he came ashore on Tuesday,
and asked me if I was Oliver; I had no conversation with the prisoner;
heard him talk with the captain; I can swear positively that this is the
man.
PATRICK MCCAFFREY deposed—I am a deck hand on the Staten Island
ferry-boat Southfield; I know the prisoner; I saw him in the gentlemen’s
cabin about seven o’clock on the morning of the 21st of March; I was
brooming off the cabin; he was sitting down, and he called me over and
asked me if I was a judge of this country’s money; that he was afraid
them fellows were cheating him; I said I was a pretty good judge of gold
and silver, but did not know much of bills; he asked me to count the
money; I counted out three or four gold pieces and told him what they
were; the bag was a kind of a shot bag; he asked me where the water
closet was and I showed him; he told me to mind his canvas bag and he
would give me the price of my bitters (identifies the coat); my
attention was particularly called to the coat by it being bare in some
places and having patches on the elbow.
Mr. DWIGHT asked that the prisoner now put on the coat.
The JUDGE said that he could not compel the prisoner to do so, as it
might aid other witnesses for the prosecution, who are now in court and
have not yet been examined.
_Examination continued._—Next saw the prisoner in the Second Ward
station-house; he denied having ever seen me; I looked all around the
station-house, and when I saw him I said, “There’s the man.”
To the COURT.—There were forty or fifty in the station-house; my
attention was not directed to him; no one pointed him out to me.
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