Herman Hamilton

Article taken from The Coshocton Daily Age, March 24, 1905

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     Columbus, O., March 24. -- Shortly after midnight Herman Hamilton, colored, of Portsmouth, O., met death in the electric chair in the penitentiary annex.  He was calm and collected, and was escorted to the death chamber at 12:01 by Father Kelly.  Hamilton muttered prayers continuously, and when asked for a statement replied: " I have nothing to say."  At 12:03 Deputy Warden Wood truned on the current, and at 12:10 the prison physician pronounced the man dead.  It was one of the most successful electrocutions in the history of the penitentiary.  Hamilton robbed and then murdered Foreman Lee Culver of the Norfolk and Western railroad, a white man, residing at Portsmouth, O.