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Denver's Last Legal Public Execution, 27 July 1886
William M. King
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1990 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849, Niwot, Colorado 80544
First Edition All rights reserved
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
King, William M., 1940 Going to meet a man: Denver's last legal public execution, 27 July 1886 / William M. King. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87081-189-4 (alk. paper) 1. Discrimination in criminal justice administration Colorado Den ver History 19th century Case studies. 2. Denver (Colo.) Race relations History 19th century Case studies. 3. Capital punishment Colorado Denver History 19th century Case studies. 4. Green, Andrew, 1861-1886. 5. Afro-American criminals Colorado Denver History 19th century Biography. I. Title. HV9956.D4K56 199090-12774 364.1'523'0978883 dc20CIP
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This book is for Kenneth Evan and Camron Ford King. Like you, this, too, was a labor of love. I thank you for letting me learn from you. Dad
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Contents
Preface
ix
1. The City
1
2. The Law
13
3. The Crime
27
4. The Trial
47
5. The Wait
91
6. Going to Meet a Man
115
7. Endings and Meanings
147
Notes
157
Index
165
Page ix
Preface
The responsibility for dispelling their own ignorance implies that the power to overcome ignorance is to be placed in black men's hands;... and the responsibility for lessening crime calls for control over social forces which produce crime.
Such social power means, assuredly, the growth of initiative among negroes, the spread of independent thought, the expanding consciousness of manhood.... Men openly declare their design to train these millions as a subject caste, as men to be thought for, but not to think; to be led, but not to lead themselves.
Those who advocate these things forget that such a solution flings them squarely on the other horn of the dilemma: such a subject child-race could never be held accountable for its own misdeeds and shortcomings;... and above all, its crime would be the legitimate child of that lack of self-respect which caste systems engender.1 William E.B. DuBois
The substance of the law at any given time pretty nearly corresponds so far as it goes, with what is then understood to be convenient; but its form and machinery, and the degree to which it is able to work out desired results, depend very much upon its past.2 Oliver Wendell Holmes
This book is about race, crime, and justice. In its attempt to find meaning in the hanging, for the crime of felony-murder,3 of Andrew Green, a twenty-five-year-old Afro-American man who on 27 July 1886 became the last person to be publicly executed in the city of Denver, Colorado,4 it focuses on the question: Can black people
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