Charles Williams

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• Name	Charles Williams  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1871 [1]
  Gender	Male
  Hung Himself In His Prison Cell	15 May 1906 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [3]
  Died	15 May 1906 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2, 3]
  Buried	​ Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2]
  	County Almshouse
  Notes	HUNG HIMSELF IN HIS PRISON CELL Charles Williams Held In Connection With Shooting of Italian. BODY FOUND THIS MORNING! Tied Suspenders On Bars of Cell and Strangled Himself. Charles Williams, one of the four negroes arrested and 'held as a witness in the felonious shooting of George Mazetta, a 19-year-old Italian at the Rutherford yards of the Philadelphia and Reading railway on April 9, this morning killed himself by hanging with his suspenders in his cell in the Dauphin county prison. Joseph Monroe, a six-foot negro, was charged with the shooting of Mazzetta, who for two weeks, lingered between life and death in the surgical ward of the Harrisburg hospital. Then he rallied. Several days ago, unaided, he extricated the. bullet which the surgeons had failed to find and when his nurse came to his bedside he handed her the lead missile. Monroe, Charles Williams, James Black and Martin Smith, known among the negroes at Rutherford as "Blight Eyes," occupied one of the Shanties at the Ryan & Kelly railroad contract at Rutherford. Young Mazzetta had been a frequent visitor to their camp and on Sunday, April 7, he called and was peeping through the window when Monroe fired his thirty-eight-calibre Colt revolver at him. The bullet entered his shoulder, entering the lungs and taking a downward course was arrested close to the skin near his left side. On Monday, April 9, Mazzetta's condition was so critical that District Attorney John Fox Weiss took what at the time was believed to be his dying statement. Monroe was held pending the condition of the young Italian and the other three negroes were also held as witnesses. They occupied separate cells in the Dauphin county prison and Williams seemed cheerful and less despondent at his confinement than the other three. Some time this morning he unloosened his suspenders and fastened them about his neck, tied the other ends high up on the steel bars of his cell. Then he allowed his weight to fall. The suspenders tightened and he slowly strangled to death. He was found dead by one of the jail attendants early this morning. Coroner Krause was notified and made an investigation of the suicide. Harrisburg Daily Independent - 15 May 1906 - Page 1
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  [S254] Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 Record. [S3] U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S2566] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Daily Independent - 15 May 1906 - Page 1, (Name: Harrisburg Daily Independent; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 15 May 1906;), Hung Himself In His Prison Cell -Charles Williams -Daily Independent 15 May 1906 15 May 1906. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106628800/hung-himself-in-his-prison-cell/?xid=637