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
On Sunday afternoon, an old man, named Charles La Coste, who keeps a
coffee and cake stand near the East Broadway stage terminus at the South
Ferry, identified Johnson as the man who, on Wednesday morning last, at
about eight o’clock, stopped opposite to his stand, apparently looking
to see what he sold thereat, when he asked him if he wanted some coffee.
He afterward went into the booth and sat down, leaving what appeared to
be his clothes-bag outside against the railings. He had coffee and cakes
which amounted to the sum of six cents. When about to leave, he handed
him a ten dollar gold piece in payment, when he asked him if he had no
less change. He said he had, and pulled from his pocket a handful of
gold, silver, and some cents, and, abstracting half a dime and a cent
paid his bill. About this time some boot-blacks came round, and wanted
to black his boots. He looked down at his feet, and said his boots were
not worth the trouble. He then asked if he could get a carriage, when La
Coste told him it was too early; he ought to get into an East Broadway
stage, and ride up to French’s Hotel, as he had asked for the
whereabouts of a respectable place to put up at. To this suggestion he
demurred, when a newsboy came up to him, took hold of his bag, and
implored him for the privilege of conveying his bag to any given point
of the metropolis. The boy took the bag and followed the man.
At a later hour the prisoner was brought from his cell and taken into
the officers’ room in the back part of the station-house, where a
promiscuous assemblage of men had gathered in. The prisoner took his
place among them. The boy, Wm. Drum, was then brought into the room, and
in a moment rested his finger upon the man whose clothes-bag he had
carried from La Coste’s stand to the house No. 129 Cedar street, one
morning last week, about eight o’clock; he did not recollect which
morning. The man thus pointed out was the prisoner. The same boy
immediately afterward saw the bag, and identified it as the one which he
had carried from the South Ferry to Cedar street. He asked Johnson fifty
cents for the job, but, on his refusal, he compromised, and took three
shillings.
Abram Egbert was introduced in the same manner as the boy, and selected
Johnson as the man who spoke to him on the bridge of the Vanderbilt
landing, on Staten Island, last Wednesday morning, between six and seven
o’clock. He was not certain, but he thought he was the man.
Augustus Gisler, the boy who sold Johnson the oyster stew, the eggs, and
the numerous hot gins, was also introduced in the same manner. He at
once pointed out Johnson, and said, “That is the man.”
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