OSBORNE COUNTY, KANSAS
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Henrietta
Cook, of Osborne County, has been sentenced by Judge Holt to be hanged, for poisoning her husband. Such a sentence
must make a murderer laugh outright, knowing that, under our laws, there is no probability that one will ever be
hung, except at the hands of a vigilance committee.
(Wichita Weekly Kansas Chief ~ July 13, 1876 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
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Mrs. Henrietta Cook, of Osborne
county, who was instrumental in aiding her husband to quit his mundane sphere, in a manner at once suspicious and
hurried, is to be hung.
(The Leavenworth Weekly Times ~ August 17, 1876 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
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TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 5---Henrietta
Cook, who was sentenced in Osborne County, June 23, 1876, to be hanged for the murder of her husband, Hiram Cook,
was granted an unconditional pardon by Governor Humphrey. In accordance with the capital punishment law of Kansas
she has been confined in the penitentiary thirteen years with the shadow of death continually hanging over her.
The Board of Pardons recommended in 1886 that a pardon be granted to her, but Governor John A. Martin had already
announced in the Atchison Champion his belief in her guilt and he never paid the slightest attention to the recommendation
in her behalf. Governor Humphrey made two trips to Osborne County to inquire into the case and pardoned her because
he believes she suffered unjustly.
(Abilene Weekly Reflector ~ September 12, 1889 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
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SETTLING
IN GRAHAM COUNTY - SAM GARLAND
Sam Garland, an Osborne county
negro who was a cloak room guard during the session of the legislature, is now trying to get a colony of negroes
to settle out in Graham county. There are a number of negro farmers out there now, and Nicodemus has been known
for a long time as a negro settlement. Sam tells his colored friends that a farm in Graham county beats staying
in Topeka and Kansas City and depending on getting jobs from day to day. (Sedan Lance, March 23, 1899, page 2)
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