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
ALBERT S. JAMES, broker, deposed—I saw the prisoner first on Wednesday,
the 21st March, at my office in South street; he asked me to take some
silver at as low a rate as possible; I had engaged to take some silver
from the market, and asked him if he came from there; he said no; the
“Cap” was sick; that he came honestly by the money; I changed about $135
in silver, and $35 in gold; it was in a bag and tied up in a
handkerchief. (Handkerchief and bag produced.) I think that is like the
bag but cannot identify the handkerchief; a man came into the office and
the prisoner seemed to hesitate, and did not seem to want to open the
bag before the man.
_Q._ What did you give him in exchange for the gold and silver.
_A._ I gave him $130 in Farmers’ and Citizens’ Bank of Williamsburg,
Long Island; their denominations were tens, fives, threes and twos; I
counted the money; the prisoner did not appear to count the money after
me; he did not see how much there was.
RICHARD O’CONOR, cartman, deposed—That he saw the prisoner on the 21st
of March, and took his baggage to the Bay State (Fall River boat); the
prisoner walked, and I saw him at the boat afterward. He told me if any
one inquired where he was going, to tell them it was none of their
business. When they were taking the luggage out, a woman asked him where
they were going, and he said they were going to Albany to live on a
farm.
Witness was not cross-examined.
GEORGE NIVENS, officer of second precinct, deposed—That he understood
that a man answering the prisoner’s description had left in the
Stonington boat, but traced him to Providence, where he arrested him in
a boarding-house. I found the hackman who had conveyed Johnson, and he
took me to the house; I found him in bed with his wife; I shook him up
and searched him; I found on him a watch; I took away two trunks, two
bags, two handkerchiefs, and a knife, a pocket-book, and some
bed-clothing, which he claimed to be his. (Identifies the watch,
pocket-book, and bags; cannot identify the handkerchiefs.) I found in
the pocket-book $121 in bills on the Farmers’ and Citizens’ Bank of
Williamsburg, mostly fives and tens; there are some ones; there are also
some on the Lee, Huguenot Bank, and City Bank of Brooklyn; when I
arrested him first I told him I arrested him for passing counterfeit
money; I did not make any statement to him at the station-house in
Providence; I believe Mr. Smith did; I brought him to New York next day;
he told me that the watch belonged to his brother; he said he had not
been in New York or Staten Island during the month of March; that he had
been speculating around the market, and had about $60; at another time
he said he got the money from his brother; on counting over the money in
the pocket-book I found there were $121 in it; when I informed him in
the cars of the charge against him, he denied all knowledge of Capt.
Burr and the sloop E. A. Johnson.
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