Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — THREE NEGROES HANGED. [ARTICLE]

THREE NEGROES HANGED.

Executed la Naahvllle, Tana., from tho Same Scaffold. The flret triple execution ever held in Nashville, Tenn., took place when three negro murderers were executed from the same scaffold in the jail yard. The condemned were Babe Battise, Dußer Thompson, and Abe Petway. The trap was sprung and the men were pronounced dead within fifteen minutes. The crime for which Petway paid the penalty was the murder of an old white man named Wrenne on the night of May 31, 1900. Battise and Thompson were hanged for the murder of Cain Miller, a negro “spotter” for the police. Thompson charged Battise with the crime, and to the last affirmed his innocence.