The World April 5, 1893 New York newspaper witchcraft, electric chair articles

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This is a Wednesday, April 5 1893 weekly issue of The World newspaper from New York.
It has a front-page article reporting on an accusation of witchcraft against a doctor in Nebraska, forcing him to flee to avoid a lynching. It also has an article on the last page, page 12, providing details about what was termed "the most successful execution that has taken place by electricity", of wife-murdering preacher James L. Hamilton. Hamilton was one of the earliest electric chair electrocutions and may have been the first black man put to death by the device.
It also contains excerpts from the Democratic National Platform and President Cleveland's inaugural speech, a murder sentence against a 17-year-old girl for shooting a rival at a dance, national, international and state politics, representations of New York fashions and products for the Chicago World's Fair, a women's page, a
Newspapers shipped flat between cardboard and bubblewrapped.
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