| 词条 | Chipita Rodriguez |
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| name = Chipita Rodriguez | birth_name = Josefa Rodriguez | birth_date = {{birth date|1799|12|30}} | birth_place = Mexico, New Spain | death_date = {{Death date and age|1863|11|13|1799|12|30}} | death_place = San Patricio, Texas, C.S.A. | alias = Chipita | conviction = Murder | conviction_penalty = Death by hanging | conviction_status = Deceased }}Josefa "Chipita" Rodriguez (December 30, 1799 – November 13, 1863) was convicted of murder and hanged in San Patricio County, Texas, at the age of 63. A century later, on June 13, 1985, the Texas Legislature passed a resolution noting that Rodriguez did not receive a fair trial. She has been the subject of two operas, numerous books, newspaper articles, and magazine accounts.[1] Trial and executionRodriguez was reportedly born December 30, 1799, in Mexico. She was a Mexican-American woman from the South Texas town of San Patricio who furnished travelers with meals and a cot on the porch of her lean-to on the Nueces River. She was accused of robbing and murdering a trader named John Savage with an axe. However, the $600 of gold stolen from him was found down river, where Savage's body was discovered in a burlap bag. She and Juan Silvera (who was possibly her illegitimate son) were indicted on circumstantial evidence and tried before 14th District Court judge Benjamin F. Neal at San Patricio. Although Rodriguez maintained her innocence, she refused to testify in her defense and remained silent throughout the trial, perhaps, some have speculated, to protect her guilty son. Although the jury recommended mercy, Neal ordered her executed. She was hanged on Friday, November 13, 1863. She was 63 at the time of her death.[1][2] Her last words were quoted as being, "No soy culpable" (I am not guilty). At least one witness to the hanging claimed to have heard a moan from the coffin, which was placed in an unmarked grave. Her ghost is said to haunt San Patricio, especially when a woman is to be executed. Rodriguez is depicted as a spectre with a noose around her neck, riding through the mesquite trees or wailing from the riverbottoms.[1] Cultural referencesChipita Rodriguez has become a folk legend, and since the 1930s, there have been numerous alleged sightings of her ghost along the Nueces River where she was hanged. Rodriguez has been the subject of numerous books and newspaper articles. Rachel Bluntzer Hebert’s epic-length poem "Shadows on the Nueces" and Teresa Palomo Acosta's poem "Chipita" both portray Rodriguez as a heroine. In 1993, the University of Texas music department performed the opera Chipita Rodriguez, composed by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi professor Lawrence Weiner. In 2010 a screenplay was written by Del Mar College and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi student screenwriter Cary Cadena. See also
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fro50 |title=Handbook of Texas Online - Rodriguez, Josefa #93 |publisher=Tshaonline.org |date= |accessdate=2008-11-26}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez, Chipita}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.caller2.com/newsarch/news10471.html |title=Chipita's execution haunts local memory |work=Corpus Christi Caller-Times |date= |accessdate=2008-11-26}} 18 : 1799 births|1863 deaths|People executed by Texas by hanging|Axe murder|American people convicted of murder|People convicted of murder by Texas|People executed for murder|People executed by the Confederate States of America by hanging|19th-century executions of American people|19th-century executions by the United States|Executed American women|American people of Mexican descent|Executed Mexican people|People wrongfully convicted of murder|Wrongful executions|Mexican ghosts|Women sentenced to death|Executed Mexican women |
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