Garster-Hawkins

Goff, William A.

Story of the murder of Williamson Hawkins, a miller in Jackson County, by Henry Garster in Westport in 1838, after unsuccessful attempts to poison him by his wife, ending in the death by hanging of Garster in 1839, "the first 'legal' hanging in Jackson County, Missouri."

1974-06

Garster, Henry
Hawkins, Williamson
Executions

Magazine Article

Westport Historical Quarterly

10

1

19-21

977.8411 W53

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