8pp., folio, 19 3/4 x 13 in.

This wild west newspaper contains an engraved portrait, heading, and report of the sentencing of Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) outlaw and murderer, “Cherokee Bill” (born Crawford Goldsby), to hang for murder.

American outlaw Crawford Goldsby (1876-1896) was responsible for murdering eight men, and over a period of two years, he and his gang terrorized the Indian Territory. On 31 January 1895, Goldsby was captured by Ike Rogers and Clint Scales in Nowata, Oklahoma and taken to Fort Smith, Arkansas, to wait for his trial. On 13 April 1895, he was sentenced to death after being tried and convicted for the murder of Ernest Melton.

Accompanied by an additional issue of The Henrietta Independent, dated 26 April 1895. The issue contains an article regarding two "Jaliscan Desperadoes" being put to death and coverage of a lynching of five African American men near Greenville, Alabama.