Zeb Ward, a retired keeper of the Kentucky Penitentiary, wrote to Governor Wise of Virginia that he was sending along a length of rope for the execution of John Brown. He pledged to Wise that it was "an honest rope." (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Fourth Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library, 1906-1907 (Richmond: State of Virginia, 1907), 97.
Record Data
Type
Legal/Political
