Tom Black Jack Ketchum Death
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 BLACK JACK KETCHUM LOSES HIS HEAD 4/26/1901 - The short and suicidal criminal career of 37-year-old Texas outlaw, Thomas Edward 'Black Jack' Ketchum ends in Union County, New Mexico, at the town of Clayton, with one of the most horrific executions in the history of the Old West. Nov 23, 2016 It was April 26, 1901, when train robber Thomas Edward Ketchum, later known as Black Jack, was hanged in the town of Clayton. Ever since that fateful day, the sad, twisted tale of one of the last outlaws of the Wild West has captured the imagination of historians and Wild West enthusiasts alike. May 13, 2013 Why You Should Pay a Visit: Along with his brother Sam, Thomas Edward Ketchum, better known as Black Jack, led the train-robbing Ketchum Gang. During an 1899 train robbery that he tried to pull off on his own, Black Jack got shot in the arm, which had to be amputated. When he died in Mora, at the age of 68 in October 1870, more than 2,000 people attended his funeral, considered, at the time, one of the most impressive ever held in New Mexico. Now he is scarcely remembered, and you practically need Special Forces training to find and get to his grave. Apr 26, 2010 1901: “Black Jack” Tom Ketchum, who was left in three pieces April 26th, 2010 Headsman On this date in 1901, a two-bit outlaw from a vanishing frontier made his reservations for hell.
Texas cowhands-turned-outlaws Tom and Sam Ketchum, along with range pals like David Atkins and Will Carver, robbed trains and became notorious in the Southwest.
By Jeffrey Burton
At almost 1:15 on the afternoon of Friday, April 26, 1901, a one-armed man in a black suit hurried up the 13 steps of the gallows at Clayton, Union County, New Mexico Territory. Tom Ketchum, an attested but unconvicted killer and the most notorious outlaw in the Southwest, was soon to become the first person to suffer public judicial execution for merely attempting to rob a railroad train. A bad life was about to end for a bad reason. And the ending would be worse, for he would not die in the officially approved fashion-from breakage of the neck vertebrae-but from decapitation at the rope's end.
At 17 minutes past the hour, and at the second attempt, Sheriff Salome Garcia's hatchet sliced through the control rope, the trap was sprung, and in a moment or two Tom Ketchum had made history-twice. The clicking cameras mounted beside the stockade snapped again and the ghastly scene was captured for all time: There, held on its side by a doctor and a deputy sheriff, was the body of Thomas Ketchum, and there, in the bloodied black hood held in place by horse-blanket pins, was Ketchum's severed head.
'Nothing out of the ordinary happened,' Sheriff Garcia declared. 'No bungling whatever. Everything worked nicely and in perfect order.' Like many of the others present, the sheriff probably was not lastingly discomforted by the horrifying spectacle of butchery that had been enacted before his eyes. It was a bad and hard way to die, but Ketchum, manifestly, had been a bad and hard man.
Tom Ketchum interesting facts, biography, family, updates, life, childhood facts, information and more:
What is Tom Ketchum's middle name?
E.
Tom Ketchum nickname(s):
Black Jack, Black Jack Ketchum, Tom Ketchum, Thomas E. Ketchum
How old was Tom Ketchum when died?
37
Where was Tom Ketchum born?
San Saba County, Texas USA
Where did Tom Ketchum die?
Union County, New Mexico Territory
Tom Ketchum body shape:
Average
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What is Tom Ketchum's ethnicity?
White
What is Tom Ketchum's occupation?
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Cowboy, Cattle Driver, Outlaw
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Tom Ketchum brother(s):
Tom Black Jack Ketchum Death Row
Sam Ketchum, Tom Ketchum