Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — A Famous Tree Down. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Tree Down.

A tree was blown down on Ellis Island during the storm Wednesday night and crashed into the house in which Dr. McDowell was sleeping. It was a famous one and was known as “Gibbet Tree,’' and was so called from the number of men that were hanged from its limbs. It was a willow and a very large oniv From the early part of the century Fe<i~ eral prisoners condemned to death were executed there. The execution that made the tree famous, or notorious, was that of Gibbs and Warmsiey, the two pirates who were hanged in chains there. Warmalcy was colored, and both were left to dangle there until their bonet bleached in the air. The tree was very old and was hollow in its trunk.—[Hew York Advertiser.