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 — John Shaqi
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
During Friday, Captain Weed and Mr. Howell searched the cabin of the
sloop, and found in the captain’s berth a clean linen coat and a clean
shirt, both neatly folded up, and each of them cut through the folds as
if with a sharp knife. The coat had a sharp, clean cut, about seven
inches long, through every fold; the shirt had some shorter cuts in it.
They ascertained that an auger, which lay on the cabin floor, had been
used to bore two holes immediately behind the stove, for the purpose of
letting off the blood, which constituted a little sea. Instead of
running off, it collected in the run beneath, where it remains. In
brief, the cabin, the deck, and the starboard side of the vessel bore
the most unmistakable evidences of a tremendous crime having been
committed on board, and committed with the utmost regard to a previously
arranged plan in the mind of the murderer, for three persons had been
dispatched, two on deck and one in the cabin.
Public excitement continued on the increase; the public were waiting
with all anxiety for a report from the pursuing officers, when, on
Friday night, at a late hour, a dispatch was received from Providence,
intimating that the murderer had been tracked to a private house, where
he had taken lodgings, and would be arrested during the night. On
Saturday, this news having been ventilated, the public excitement became
greatly intensified, and it was anticipated that an effort would be made
to lynch the prisoner on his arrival in the city. Crowds repaired to the
railway depot, at Twenty-seventh street and Fourth avenue, also at
Forty-second street, at the upper end of the Harlem Railroad. At 5
o’clock, P.M., the train arrived, containing the officers and their
prisoner. But the multitudes who waited and looked for the prisoner were
doomed to disappointment, for the officers had prepared themselves
before reaching the city for avoiding any attack from infuriated mobs,
by taking their places in the first or baggage car, thus avoiding
suspicion. In this way they came down to the lower depot, and were
transferred to an express wagon, and rolled down to the Second Ward
station-house.
THE ARREST AND HOW IT WAS EFFECTED.
We give the account of the arrest in the words of Officer Nevins:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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