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
HENRY SEAMAN deposed—I reside in Brooklyn; I was acquainted with Capt.
Burr for fourteen or fifteen years; I saw him on the Tuesday before he
left; I know Capt. Burr’s watch; I had it in my hand on the Tuesday; it
was at my house, and he (Capt. Burr) took it away that evening; I
recollect leaving Capt. Burr’s watch to be repaired at some store in the
Bowery, a year ago last April; I did not go after it again; I know it by
its general appearance, and by the guard, and the way the guard is
knotted; I knew the sloop Johnson, and its yawl boat; I saw the yawl
boat at the police station after the sloop had been towed in to the
city; it was on the 22d or 23d of March last; saw the yawl boat on the
sloop the time she was here before the last trip; I do not know the
prisoner; Captain Burr was a man of about five feet seven or five feet
eight inches in height. I found the ship’s papers in the cabin, at the
head of the captain’s birth; I gave them to Captain Weed, of the Second
Ward station; I knew the Watts boys; Oliver was about five feet nine or
ten, and weighed about 180 or 185 pounds; he was the light-haired one;
Smith Watts was taller, and weighed about 175 pounds; I do not know
Smith Watts’ writing.
_Cross-examined._—I had the watch in my hand probably fifteen or twenty
minutes; it was on the Tuesday before the Thursday that he sailed; I
don’t think I said before the Commissioner that it was the Tuesday week
before he sailed; I do not know why I took the watch in my hand; I had
no idea that I should be called on to identify it; I left it at Mr.
Squire’s store to be repaired; I did not go for the watch; I remember
the number of the watch, 21,310; the number was marked down on the boom
of my cart by Captain Burr when he gave it to me at foot of Spring
street; I did not state that fact before; I have since sold the cart;
Captain Burr’s wife and my wife are sisters.
To Mr. DWIGHT—Captain Burr carried the watch for four or five years.
Mr. CONOVER—(recalled and produces the record).—It is as follows:
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| MR. BURR |
| D. B. Silver watch, |
| J. Johnson, Liverpool, 21,310. |
| Dld. |
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_To prisoner’s counsel._—I can’t say to whom I delivered the watch; my
impression is that I delivered it to the gentleman who left it, but I am
not certain; it was there about a week.
CATHERINE DICKERSON, a girl about seventeen years of age, deposed: I
knew Oliver Watts; I saw him last on the Tuesday of the week he sailed;
I do not know the date; I gave him my daguerreotype.
Mr. GRAVES objected to this testimony.
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