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Subject:	Re: Virginia executions
From:	Gail Tatum <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:02:03 -0500
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Mr. Grizzle:
The Richmond Dispatch for Oct. 12, 1895, has an article on the Leftwich
execution.  It starts

BRISTOL, TENN.,October 11. -- (Special.) -- "Kit" Leftwich, the negro who
committed a criminal assault on Annie Fogarty, a little Irish girl, on the
7th day of September, was hanged in Bristol, Va., to-day.

The Bristol Tenn./Va. Weekly News for October 15, 1895, carried an extensive
article on the crime, trial and execution and made reference to Washington
County jurors and the fact that the prisoner was held in Lynchburg until
just before the execution.  Based on these stories, Id say he was executed
in Virginia.


Gail Tatum
Reference Librarian
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 692-3558
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