Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-07-02
EXECUTION FOR MURDER.
HAVANA, April "a.

/ certify, that on the l9tn instant at
,,lf mast ! o'clock, AM. the galley slave
f this royal arsenal, Jose florentino
Harra, aged OF years, underwent the
apital punishment on the gallows, to
ybich he was sentenced by the court OF
This Commandancy General of Marine on
the 10Th April of last year. (apd which
the Supreme Tribunal Of the Admiralty
If spain and the Indies confirmed for
the .cacherous murder of the justice Of
Peace D. Francisco Rodriguez, and at
baf past 5 PM. his right'hand was cut
Aft and nailed to the hook s9bich is with
out the gate Of the rail of Tue royal arse
nal.
The aforesaid criminal Harra. being
put into the chapel for spiritual prepare
ton, manifested that he had public and
judicial declaration to make, in order to
ease his conscience. and his petition be-
Ing acceded to. he declared the day be-
lore the punishment, having previously
taken an OATH that he lad committed
seventeen murders-elght in this city
and nine out, explaining them all in the
following manner: The first in the arch
es Of the convent OF our Lady de Belen
committing it with knife on a white
man, whose name and surname he did
not know, neither did he state the dav
nor the year; but he stated that it was
after prisons. and through Halousy as to
a woman Tie second, 6h the wall OF
Paura, on F. Rodriguez, giving him two
stabs, with k ite, and being dead he
threw him into the sea over the said wall
he did neither state the day. year nor
hour bat that the cause was for having
nursued him as a deserter from the
arsenal. requiring ofhin contrbut on ;
The third he perpetrated OF the negro
Jastan Mendez, in the neishborhood OF
Santa Catalina, giving him stab with a
dae!.er about O'clock in the evening.
neither lid he state the day. monbl nor
year but that the cause was his having
started at him The fourth iii the walks
of :. Jose. without the walls OF this city
on young native Sranard Of whose
name and surname lie gave no account,
neither of the day, month nor year, on
accouG, of some variance he had with
him: The fifth he executed in the road
which is before arriving at the settle
ments o. fenalver, On a negfo--he did
not state his name, surname, day, month
nor wear, but the cause WIS that he
presumed he was following him W HON he
watched quarter of an hour the night
after his decease happened: Tie sixth
in the field of Mars; on mulatto, strlk-
ing hun with club, neither did he state
his name, the day nor the month, but that
il was in the evening, and because that
playing pawpaw he had some difference
with HIN The seventh he executed I'M
the district of Mocha, Oh the negro|
charlottesville did not state his sur
name. the day. month, nor year, but that;
the cause was his having pursued him with
two Others and because at the ball there|
was at that town he b oke the harp with
which they we're playing: The eighth
was that which he committed on thai
person of the above mentioned commits
sary, y. Ftaacisco Rodriguez, and forI
which he was Judged and sentenced toI
undergo the punishment of the saiows.
is has been stated, The ninth was in|
the city of Porto Rico, and he executed
it on the boatsWain o. vessel, and lo
which he was sentenced TO ten years hardI
labnur in this arsenal in 1910: ite|
tenth he executed IN Vera Cruz, on thsI
Sergeant of Laneers, +. Alvarez bein,
q soidier in the same troop. giving hlr
a stab in the quarters--he did net STATE
the day, month, nor year: The eleventh
in Mexico, on commissafy OF TIE city.
executing it or Sunday. abont o'cieok
in the evening, in the month OF April.
without stating the year,neithe' the name
Of The person, but the cause being lIs
having wished to arrest him as deserfer
from tie permanent regiment, in which
he had enli tee.; The wel!th. in .AEcant
on Actionio Cortcs, sailor on board a
French privateer. in which they both
saie,I he killed him by a stab, at about
8 O'clock Ia the evening, it the month OF
January, without recoliecting the yea.
the yea. but tie cause was having lent
him sash, and his having refused to re
turn ii to him. declaring thar III this al
!air lie was wounded by Cortcs IheI
on the French consul OF theI
city Of Malaga, giving him three stabs
in the castle de Alfaro; The fourteenth
on his Exceliency the Senior Marqui
de Ia Soana. in Cadiz, having been the|
arst who seized bin. and gave him three