| 词条 | William Jackson Marion |
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In May 1872, William Jackson Marion and John Cameron, two friends from Kansas, left Liberty, Nebraska, and headed to work on the railroad.[1] On May 5, 1872, Marion returned to his mother-in-law's home near Liberty with Cameron's team of horses. Marion's mother-in-law suspected that Marion had killed Cameron, and eventually Marion left Nebraska. In March 1873, a body/skeleton was found in a riverbed in Gage County, Nebraska, wearing clothing that unidentified witnesses claimed to be John Cameron's. Marion was named a suspect, although he was unable to be located.[2] Arrest and prosecution of William Jackson MarionIn December 1882, Marion was located in the county jail at Sedan, Kansas, in Chautauqua County, awaiting trial on a charge of stealing. He was taken to Beatrice, Nebraska, where he was indicted for the murder of John Cameron. A jury convicted him, and the judge sentenced him to death.[3][4] The trial took two months.[5] On appeal, the Nebraska Supreme Court vacated the conviction[6] and ordered a new trial, noting that under Nebraska law at the time of the murder, a death sentence had to be entered by a jury, not a judge. Upon his second conviction, Marion was again sentenced to death and, after losing a second appeal,[7] was hanged in Beatrice, Nebraska, on March 25, 1887. An article in the Omaha Daily Bee on March 26, 1887 declared there to be "no doubt that he was guilty and also guilty of other murders in the Indian Territory."[8] Re-appearance of John CameronFour years after Marion was executed, in 1891, John Cameron turned up alive and explained that he had, in the nearly twenty years since his "murder", traveled to Mexico, Alaska, and Colorado.[9][10] In a written statement provided by Marion's uncle William Wymore, Cameron explained that he had fled out of fear of a paternity allegation.[9] John Cameron said he had sold his team of horses to Marion and still had the note Marion had given him for payment of the remainder.[11] Pardon of William Jackson MarionOn March 25, 1987, Marion was pardoned posthumously by the State of Nebraska on the 100th anniversary of his hanging.[12][13] In the newsA February 2013 documentary entitled "...until he is dead. A history of Nebraska's death penalty," discussed at length the hanging and later pardon of William Jackson Marion.[14] See also
References1. ^{{cite news|title=Paid the Penalty at Last – Jack Marion Hanged For a Murder Committed Long Ago|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94056415/1887-03-31/ed-1/seq-4.pdf|accessdate=March 12, 2012|newspaper=The McCook Tribune|date=1887-03-31}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marion, William Jackson}}2. ^{{cite news|title=Editorial Jottings|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020109/1873-04-03/ed-1/seq-2.pdf|accessdate=2012-03-17|newspaper=Nebraska Advertiser|date=April 3, 1873}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Crime and Cussedness|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014424/1883-05-04/ed-1/seq-1.pdf|accessdate=2012-03-17|newspaper=The Evening Critic|date=May 4, 1883}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=For a Murder Committed Eleven Years Ago|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1883-05-05/ed-1/seq-1.pdf|accessdate=2012-03-17|newspaper=The Sun|date=1883-05-05}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Sudden Departures|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87060189/1883-05-05/ed-1/seq-1.pdf|accessdate=2012-03-17|newspaper=Daily Evening Bulletin|date=1883-05-05}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Marion v. State, 16 Neb. 349, 20 N.W. 289 (Neb. 1884).|url=http://www.victimsofthestate.org/NE/Marion1.htm}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Marion v. State, 20 Neb. 233, 29 N.W. 911 (Neb. 1886)|url=http://www.victimsofthestate.org/NE/Marion2.htm}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Death on the Scaffold – Jack Marion Hustled Hence With Hemp at Beatrice – Formalities on the Choke|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1887-03-26/ed-1/seq-1.pdf|accessdate=March 12, 2012|newspaper=Omaha Daily Bee|date=March 26, 1887}} 9. ^1 {{cite news|title=Hanged an Innocent Man – Sensational Developments in an Old Murder Case at Beatrice|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1891-08-04/ed-1/seq-5.pdf|accessdate=March 12, 2012|newspaper=Omaha Daily Bee|date=August 4, 1891}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Nebraska State News|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022835/1891-08-14/ed-1/seq-2.pdf|accessdate=March 12, 2012|newspaper=The Red Cloud Chief|date=August 4, 1891}} 11. ^{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Wayne C.|title=Bad Men and Bad Towns|year=1993|publisher=Caxton Press|isbn=978-0870043499|pages=81}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Family gathers to clean grave of man hung in Gage County|url=http://beatricedailysun.com/news/local/article_61d36ac4-eafd-5040-b374-4058e0643276.html|accessdate=March 12, 2012|newspaper=Beatrice Daily Sun|date=2008-09-22}} 13. ^http://www.executedtoday.com/images/William_Jackson_Marion_pardon.jpg 14. ^{{cite news|title=1887 Hanging Remains Nebraska's Most Controversial Execution|url=http://www.netnebraska.org/article/news/1887-hanging-remains-nebraskas-most-controversial-execution|accessdate=2012-08-21|date=February 7, 2013}} 7 : 1887 deaths|Executed people from Nebraska|People executed by Nebraska by hanging|People from Gage County, Nebraska|19th-century executions of American people|Year of birth missing|People convicted of murdering victims who were later found alive |
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