Yes.  The Times-Dispatch story is more accurate, though it doesn't  
give the date of the execution.

--Jurretta Heckscher

On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:21 AM, David Kiracofe wrote:

> The AP story is incorrect about the date of Prosser's execution:   
> August 30 was the planned date for the uprising.  Arrests of  
> alleged rebels began soon after that, but Gabriel himself managed  
> to hide out for about a month before he was, again, betrayed.  He  
> was trying to get to Norfolk where he might have been able to catch  
> a ship to take him from the area when he was recognized and turned  
> in for the reward.  He was tried in early October and then executed  
> October 10.
>
> David Kiracofe
>
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