From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/23/1864, p. 1, c. 7

EXECUTION TO-DAY. – The Governor having refused to exercise further his Executive privilege to stay the execution of the sentence passed by the Hustings Court upon William, slave of Samuel Fauntleroy, of Goochland, he will therefore be hung to-day between the hours of ten and two o’clock. The execution will take place on the hill back of the new city alms-house.

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