Wife murderer, executed by private hanging in Monroe, Louisiana. Pat Paine was the first legally hanged white man in Ouachita parish since 1832. Newspapers reported Paine cooly smoked a cigar and drank eggnog on the scaffold before being hung. He proclaimed his innocence due to being under the influence of whisky and morphine. In April, he shot his wife point blank range as she was attempting to pay their bill to the butcher for their restaurant/hotel business at the Iron Mountain. The butcher, McCabe managed to shoot Paine in the chest before he retreated upstairs and barricaded himself in a room. They had two sons, who wound up living with relatives in Alida or Westville, Indiana. Pat Paine was pompous and taunting during his imprisonment, giving statements to newspapers and asking the governor to make sure his execution was on opening day for oysters so people could enjoy his hanging and an oyster barbeque. He also claimed to be in constant communication with his dead wife. Being a telegraph operator, he lived in a variety of places: Ohio, Alida, Indiana where he met his unnamed wife, Minnesota, Ogden, Utah, Macon, Georgia before winding up in Monroe, Louisiana.
In it's lengthy and descriptive article in the Times-Picayune of October 9, 1897, after cut from the noose, Pat Paine's body was interred at Saint Matthew cemetery next to the grave of his murdered wife.
In it's lengthy and descriptive article in the Times-Picayune of October 9, 1897, after cut from the noose, Pat Paine's body was interred at Saint Matthew cemetery next to the grave of his murdered wife.
Wife murderer, executed by private hanging in Monroe, Louisiana. Pat Paine was the first legally hanged white man in Ouachita parish since 1832. Newspapers reported Paine cooly smoked a cigar and drank eggnog on the scaffold before being hung. He proclaimed his innocence due to being under the influence of whisky and morphine. In April, he shot his wife point blank range as she was attempting to pay their bill to the butcher for their restaurant/hotel business at the Iron Mountain. The butcher, McCabe managed to shoot Paine in the chest before he retreated upstairs and barricaded himself in a room. They had two sons, who wound up living with relatives in Alida or Westville, Indiana. Pat Paine was pompous and taunting during his imprisonment, giving statements to newspapers and asking the governor to make sure his execution was on opening day for oysters so people could enjoy his hanging and an oyster barbeque. He also claimed to be in constant communication with his dead wife. Being a telegraph operator, he lived in a variety of places: Ohio, Alida, Indiana where he met his unnamed wife, Minnesota, Ogden, Utah, Macon, Georgia before winding up in Monroe, Louisiana.
In it's lengthy and descriptive article in the Times-Picayune of October 9, 1897, after cut from the noose, Pat Paine's body was interred at Saint Matthew cemetery next to the grave of his murdered wife.
In it's lengthy and descriptive article in the Times-Picayune of October 9, 1897, after cut from the noose, Pat Paine's body was interred at Saint Matthew cemetery next to the grave of his murdered wife.
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