"Execution in Belmont County, Ohio.
Execution in Belmont County, Ohio. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, BELMONT CO.
March 24, 1870"
"Thomas D. Carr, who, today, suffered death on the gallows, for the murder of Louisa C. Fox, made before his death, a confession which leaves no doubt of his guilt. Though still young - he was born in March, 1846- his life has been full of crimes and atrocities. The story that he himself tells is terrible in the extreme. He served in the army during the war, and relates, with a kind of pride, his thought that since he was going into battles he ought to keep his nerves braced up with liquor, so he drank, and the fighting, he says, with the indifferent whiskey, kept him in good trim.
He was in Cambridge for two weeks to drill, and during that time he had five fights, and he is sure that the residents of that town have not forgotten "Corduroy" afterward he was sent down to Huntsville, afterward lighting Bragg in Mississippi. Shortly after this he was sent to Columbus to guard some prisoners. H says that, "instead of returning, I thought I would stay in Cincinnati. I broke out of Sycamore Barracks, and in a few days met Annie Whalen at the Eighth Street Park. I took her out to Carthage (a small village north of Cincinnati), where we lived two weeks, when I sent her back to Cincinnati, and returned to my command, after an absence of sixty days. When I reached it, near Deccard Station, I was put in the guardhouse, court-martialed, and sentenced to be shot for desertion.
One afternoon they took me out to dig my grave, which I did, making it five feet six inches long, four feet two inches deep, and two feet six inches wide. Even then I felt as unconcerned as ever I did in my life, God pity me! I didn't care, my heart was so calloused and hard. I don't even remember the date of that day, because I cared so little about an event that would almost craze some men. But that is neither her nor there. a petition was sent to President Lincoln and I was pardoned; was returned to my regiment with the welcome of the boys, who treated me as well as ever."
Joining afterward the 18th regulars, he deserted at Columbus, and only managed to secure a return to his own regiment by informing on a messmate, who was also a deserter. His regiment was soon sent to North Carolina. There he became a plunderer of the dead, gathering rings and money and watches from the bodies of those who had fallen in battle.
He returned afterward to Columbus, and there became engaged in a brawl in a house of ill fame; and he says he knocked down one of the inmates and left her for dead. A day or two after he threw a bottle at a man in Newark, and split his skull wide open.
The crime for which he was executed was the murder of Miss Fox, a young girl only fourteen years of age, who had refused to marry him. For this he was tried, the evidence was found complete and overwhelming, and he was convicted. The case was afterward taken to the Supreme Court but the decision of the Court Below was reaffirmed. When the death warrant was read to him he laughed loudly, and said, he did not care a d-n if it was to be tomorrow.
His execution took place this afternoon at about one o'clock. Some what of his old defiant spirit had left him, but he stood, the terrible ordeal with more bravery than could have been expected."
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
April 1, 1870, page 2
Biography provided by, contributor, Billy Walker.∼Thomas David Carr (March 6, 1846 – March 24, 1870) was an American thief, arsonist, murderer and self-confessed serial killer. He was hanged in 1870 for murdering 13-year-old Louisa Fox in Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio, and shortly before his execution, he confessed to murdering 14 men, including to participating in a famous 1867 murder that occurred in West Virginia.
Newspaper article dated 5 April 1870 from The Spirit of Democracy, Woodsville, Ohio page 1 states he was born near the Clay Monument, 3 miles East of Wheeling (would have been Virginia when he was born) and that he was buried in the M. E. Graveyard at St. Clairsville, OHio.
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Furious when he heard that Louiza and her parents wanted to end their engagement
Number of victims: 1 - 15
Date of murders: 1860's - 1869
Date of arrest: January 22, 1869
Date of birth: March 6, 1846
Victims profile: His girlfriend, Louiza Fox, 13 / 14 men (confessed)
Method of murder: Cutting her throat with a razor / Shooting
Location: Belmont County, Ohio, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on March 24, 1870
Execution in Belmont County, Ohio. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, BELMONT CO.
March 24, 1870"
"Thomas D. Carr, who, today, suffered death on the gallows, for the murder of Louisa C. Fox, made before his death, a confession which leaves no doubt of his guilt. Though still young - he was born in March, 1846- his life has been full of crimes and atrocities. The story that he himself tells is terrible in the extreme. He served in the army during the war, and relates, with a kind of pride, his thought that since he was going into battles he ought to keep his nerves braced up with liquor, so he drank, and the fighting, he says, with the indifferent whiskey, kept him in good trim.
He was in Cambridge for two weeks to drill, and during that time he had five fights, and he is sure that the residents of that town have not forgotten "Corduroy" afterward he was sent down to Huntsville, afterward lighting Bragg in Mississippi. Shortly after this he was sent to Columbus to guard some prisoners. H says that, "instead of returning, I thought I would stay in Cincinnati. I broke out of Sycamore Barracks, and in a few days met Annie Whalen at the Eighth Street Park. I took her out to Carthage (a small village north of Cincinnati), where we lived two weeks, when I sent her back to Cincinnati, and returned to my command, after an absence of sixty days. When I reached it, near Deccard Station, I was put in the guardhouse, court-martialed, and sentenced to be shot for desertion.
One afternoon they took me out to dig my grave, which I did, making it five feet six inches long, four feet two inches deep, and two feet six inches wide. Even then I felt as unconcerned as ever I did in my life, God pity me! I didn't care, my heart was so calloused and hard. I don't even remember the date of that day, because I cared so little about an event that would almost craze some men. But that is neither her nor there. a petition was sent to President Lincoln and I was pardoned; was returned to my regiment with the welcome of the boys, who treated me as well as ever."
Joining afterward the 18th regulars, he deserted at Columbus, and only managed to secure a return to his own regiment by informing on a messmate, who was also a deserter. His regiment was soon sent to North Carolina. There he became a plunderer of the dead, gathering rings and money and watches from the bodies of those who had fallen in battle.
He returned afterward to Columbus, and there became engaged in a brawl in a house of ill fame; and he says he knocked down one of the inmates and left her for dead. A day or two after he threw a bottle at a man in Newark, and split his skull wide open.
The crime for which he was executed was the murder of Miss Fox, a young girl only fourteen years of age, who had refused to marry him. For this he was tried, the evidence was found complete and overwhelming, and he was convicted. The case was afterward taken to the Supreme Court but the decision of the Court Below was reaffirmed. When the death warrant was read to him he laughed loudly, and said, he did not care a d-n if it was to be tomorrow.
His execution took place this afternoon at about one o'clock. Some what of his old defiant spirit had left him, but he stood, the terrible ordeal with more bravery than could have been expected."
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
April 1, 1870, page 2
Biography provided by, contributor, Billy Walker.∼Thomas David Carr (March 6, 1846 – March 24, 1870) was an American thief, arsonist, murderer and self-confessed serial killer. He was hanged in 1870 for murdering 13-year-old Louisa Fox in Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio, and shortly before his execution, he confessed to murdering 14 men, including to participating in a famous 1867 murder that occurred in West Virginia.
Newspaper article dated 5 April 1870 from The Spirit of Democracy, Woodsville, Ohio page 1 states he was born near the Clay Monument, 3 miles East of Wheeling (would have been Virginia when he was born) and that he was buried in the M. E. Graveyard at St. Clairsville, OHio.
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Furious when he heard that Louiza and her parents wanted to end their engagement
Number of victims: 1 - 15
Date of murders: 1860's - 1869
Date of arrest: January 22, 1869
Date of birth: March 6, 1846
Victims profile: His girlfriend, Louiza Fox, 13 / 14 men (confessed)
Method of murder: Cutting her throat with a razor / Shooting
Location: Belmont County, Ohio, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on March 24, 1870
"Execution in Belmont County, Ohio.
Execution in Belmont County, Ohio. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, BELMONT CO.
March 24, 1870"
"Thomas D. Carr, who, today, suffered death on the gallows, for the murder of Louisa C. Fox, made before his death, a confession which leaves no doubt of his guilt. Though still young - he was born in March, 1846- his life has been full of crimes and atrocities. The story that he himself tells is terrible in the extreme. He served in the army during the war, and relates, with a kind of pride, his thought that since he was going into battles he ought to keep his nerves braced up with liquor, so he drank, and the fighting, he says, with the indifferent whiskey, kept him in good trim.
He was in Cambridge for two weeks to drill, and during that time he had five fights, and he is sure that the residents of that town have not forgotten "Corduroy" afterward he was sent down to Huntsville, afterward lighting Bragg in Mississippi. Shortly after this he was sent to Columbus to guard some prisoners. H says that, "instead of returning, I thought I would stay in Cincinnati. I broke out of Sycamore Barracks, and in a few days met Annie Whalen at the Eighth Street Park. I took her out to Carthage (a small village north of Cincinnati), where we lived two weeks, when I sent her back to Cincinnati, and returned to my command, after an absence of sixty days. When I reached it, near Deccard Station, I was put in the guardhouse, court-martialed, and sentenced to be shot for desertion.
One afternoon they took me out to dig my grave, which I did, making it five feet six inches long, four feet two inches deep, and two feet six inches wide. Even then I felt as unconcerned as ever I did in my life, God pity me! I didn't care, my heart was so calloused and hard. I don't even remember the date of that day, because I cared so little about an event that would almost craze some men. But that is neither her nor there. a petition was sent to President Lincoln and I was pardoned; was returned to my regiment with the welcome of the boys, who treated me as well as ever."
Joining afterward the 18th regulars, he deserted at Columbus, and only managed to secure a return to his own regiment by informing on a messmate, who was also a deserter. His regiment was soon sent to North Carolina. There he became a plunderer of the dead, gathering rings and money and watches from the bodies of those who had fallen in battle.
He returned afterward to Columbus, and there became engaged in a brawl in a house of ill fame; and he says he knocked down one of the inmates and left her for dead. A day or two after he threw a bottle at a man in Newark, and split his skull wide open.
The crime for which he was executed was the murder of Miss Fox, a young girl only fourteen years of age, who had refused to marry him. For this he was tried, the evidence was found complete and overwhelming, and he was convicted. The case was afterward taken to the Supreme Court but the decision of the Court Below was reaffirmed. When the death warrant was read to him he laughed loudly, and said, he did not care a d-n if it was to be tomorrow.
His execution took place this afternoon at about one o'clock. Some what of his old defiant spirit had left him, but he stood, the terrible ordeal with more bravery than could have been expected."
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
April 1, 1870, page 2
Biography provided by, contributor, Billy Walker.∼Thomas David Carr (March 6, 1846 – March 24, 1870) was an American thief, arsonist, murderer and self-confessed serial killer. He was hanged in 1870 for murdering 13-year-old Louisa Fox in Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio, and shortly before his execution, he confessed to murdering 14 men, including to participating in a famous 1867 murder that occurred in West Virginia.
Newspaper article dated 5 April 1870 from The Spirit of Democracy, Woodsville, Ohio page 1 states he was born near the Clay Monument, 3 miles East of Wheeling (would have been Virginia when he was born) and that he was buried in the M. E. Graveyard at St. Clairsville, OHio.
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Furious when he heard that Louiza and her parents wanted to end their engagement
Number of victims: 1 - 15
Date of murders: 1860's - 1869
Date of arrest: January 22, 1869
Date of birth: March 6, 1846
Victims profile: His girlfriend, Louiza Fox, 13 / 14 men (confessed)
Method of murder: Cutting her throat with a razor / Shooting
Location: Belmont County, Ohio, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on March 24, 1870
Execution in Belmont County, Ohio. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, BELMONT CO.
March 24, 1870"
"Thomas D. Carr, who, today, suffered death on the gallows, for the murder of Louisa C. Fox, made before his death, a confession which leaves no doubt of his guilt. Though still young - he was born in March, 1846- his life has been full of crimes and atrocities. The story that he himself tells is terrible in the extreme. He served in the army during the war, and relates, with a kind of pride, his thought that since he was going into battles he ought to keep his nerves braced up with liquor, so he drank, and the fighting, he says, with the indifferent whiskey, kept him in good trim.
He was in Cambridge for two weeks to drill, and during that time he had five fights, and he is sure that the residents of that town have not forgotten "Corduroy" afterward he was sent down to Huntsville, afterward lighting Bragg in Mississippi. Shortly after this he was sent to Columbus to guard some prisoners. H says that, "instead of returning, I thought I would stay in Cincinnati. I broke out of Sycamore Barracks, and in a few days met Annie Whalen at the Eighth Street Park. I took her out to Carthage (a small village north of Cincinnati), where we lived two weeks, when I sent her back to Cincinnati, and returned to my command, after an absence of sixty days. When I reached it, near Deccard Station, I was put in the guardhouse, court-martialed, and sentenced to be shot for desertion.
One afternoon they took me out to dig my grave, which I did, making it five feet six inches long, four feet two inches deep, and two feet six inches wide. Even then I felt as unconcerned as ever I did in my life, God pity me! I didn't care, my heart was so calloused and hard. I don't even remember the date of that day, because I cared so little about an event that would almost craze some men. But that is neither her nor there. a petition was sent to President Lincoln and I was pardoned; was returned to my regiment with the welcome of the boys, who treated me as well as ever."
Joining afterward the 18th regulars, he deserted at Columbus, and only managed to secure a return to his own regiment by informing on a messmate, who was also a deserter. His regiment was soon sent to North Carolina. There he became a plunderer of the dead, gathering rings and money and watches from the bodies of those who had fallen in battle.
He returned afterward to Columbus, and there became engaged in a brawl in a house of ill fame; and he says he knocked down one of the inmates and left her for dead. A day or two after he threw a bottle at a man in Newark, and split his skull wide open.
The crime for which he was executed was the murder of Miss Fox, a young girl only fourteen years of age, who had refused to marry him. For this he was tried, the evidence was found complete and overwhelming, and he was convicted. The case was afterward taken to the Supreme Court but the decision of the Court Below was reaffirmed. When the death warrant was read to him he laughed loudly, and said, he did not care a d-n if it was to be tomorrow.
His execution took place this afternoon at about one o'clock. Some what of his old defiant spirit had left him, but he stood, the terrible ordeal with more bravery than could have been expected."
The Tiffin Tribune
Tiffin, Ohio
April 1, 1870, page 2
Biography provided by, contributor, Billy Walker.∼Thomas David Carr (March 6, 1846 – March 24, 1870) was an American thief, arsonist, murderer and self-confessed serial killer. He was hanged in 1870 for murdering 13-year-old Louisa Fox in Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio, and shortly before his execution, he confessed to murdering 14 men, including to participating in a famous 1867 murder that occurred in West Virginia.
Newspaper article dated 5 April 1870 from The Spirit of Democracy, Woodsville, Ohio page 1 states he was born near the Clay Monument, 3 miles East of Wheeling (would have been Virginia when he was born) and that he was buried in the M. E. Graveyard at St. Clairsville, OHio.
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Furious when he heard that Louiza and her parents wanted to end their engagement
Number of victims: 1 - 15
Date of murders: 1860's - 1869
Date of arrest: January 22, 1869
Date of birth: March 6, 1846
Victims profile: His girlfriend, Louiza Fox, 13 / 14 men (confessed)
Method of murder: Cutting her throat with a razor / Shooting
Location: Belmont County, Ohio, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on March 24, 1870
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