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39th year  -  N° 280                 Sunday, 6 October 2024         Antwerpen		
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Friday 7th of January 1898

126 years ago He Met Death Like a Man and Hoped



Presumed murderer Jack O’Neil is executed by hanging in Buckland, Massachusetts, United States.


O'Neil's last words were "I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see me hanged will live to see the day when it is proved I am innocent - and it will be, some time". A few months later a dying Shellburne Falls soldier fighting the Spaniards in Cuba confessed to the murder. O'Neil became the last man to be executed in Massachussetts.