The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-10
HENRY SCOTT PAYS PENALTY
Continued from Fifth Page.


witnesses Marshal Dockery, Deputy
Sheriff Cox and Rev. E. F.. Bennett
When the reading of these two pa
pers had Been concluded Marshal
Dockery asked Scott If he had any
thing TO say.
Scott replied: Yes siT-That's the
truth (1leaniag the statement III
tel! you h0w i happened" He then
told q .ra causes leading Up 10 the
t-ag=d-. TIE fac.s being just the same
as -ivac -b2~z ara in about the sam=
language
Rev. Bennett. addressing the crowd,
said:
This is the statement sworn 70 -
Henry Scott. and made and delivered
in secrecy. 10 De delivered here on the
scaffold. I would like 20 have ever
body perfectly Quiec while this Is De
ing read. Commenced -eading stale
ment 81 $50. closed al 2:fs. lIAat
statement is given above).
Rev. Bennett says: Mr.. Marshal,
perhaps Mr.. Scott would ike a VOID
II addition - say in the presence o.
these witnesses.
Mr., Dockery: Have YOU anything
further 10 say?
Scott: | have a few words - say.
This statement IS strictly correct !
don't want no humbuggerv. | did no.
s-a-- he -rouble; the COOS started the
trouble. The coffee business was all
2 fake. OF course, the engineer and
Che mate started the trouble about
saving the wood. The mate told me
before they went overheard: | threw
them overheard. The vessel was run
ming under steam. They thought they
could put into port and get me locked
I'D; that's the whole fact Of the mat
ter: that's all.
Rev. Bennett: Then this i Your
statement?
Scott: Sawyer and Adams are
strictly innocent. l was insane. crazy.
and any man that came over there |
would have killed him.
Marshal Dockery: Have you any
thing else>to say?
Scott. turning TO the crowd, said:
Keep quiet. I want TO give YOU gen.
tlemel son good advice; of course, I
stand before the commonwealth as a
murderer, | am pushing right along.
We are all men, and we are all corn
OF women. I am talking 10 you now,
white and colored. The white and the
colored are the same 10 me, and when
a man kills another, the best thing TO
do is to put him out Of business |
don't want my body 10 be buried, or
sent home; I want my body SEN to he
Jefferson college, Of Philadelphia. |
don't want it sent home. I am not
trying to shield Sawyer and Adams.
Let them 90 to the world as two Jrai-
tors and scOundrels. The officers Of
that vessel treated me dirty, and VIC
lated the law Of God and righteousness
and then q lot Of people run around
here trying to save me. The power I
now have, the President Roosevelt has
not. [ release them to the world as
two innocent men, and so is COakiey.
hut I don't know where he is low,
Song: Nearer My God to Thee"
Prayer.
Scott: Il var to tell you now,
did not kill these people because they
were white, but | was going to kill
Sawyer, Adams and Coakley and throw
them overheard, 81 I just want to
show you I did not kill them because
they were white, but because they we're
dirty. If they had been colored. I
would have killed them the same way.
that's all"
Scott then shook hands all round
with the people and then said:
Nobody coulu save them but me-
Some n remarked that they were
sorry to see him go and Scott said.
"That's al right. l don't wan no
dsIHess."
Ne rshai Docksry: Scott, are you
ready?'
Scott: All right, let her 60" And
the hanging followed.
LETTER TO DOCKERY.
The following note was handed to
Marshal Dockery by Scott as he was
standing waiting for the trap to be
It WAS addressed to Honor,
Dir. DOckery, United States Marshal.
and read as follows:
why | truthfully bars burying, in
any forms % shapes, whatever, strict
ly | would like my body to be sent TO
Jefferson college, Philadelphia, Pa, Di.
John Hopkins college, Baltimore, Nd
If this canno be accomplished let Tn
Gle Sans medical department have il,
please. This is my honorable request.
I do not wan it to go home TO my
people. Yours truly, Sir.
(Signed) HENRY SCOTT.
Burying must be strictly barred, if
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