Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Mirror 29 Mar 1860 On Friday morning last(March 23, 1860), Philip Lynch, convicted at the December term of the Court, of the murder of George Coulter, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in the yard of the County Jail, in this town(Mount Holly.) The murder of Coulter was one of peculiar atrocity

29 Mar 1860, from the New Jersey Mirror On Friday morning last(March 23, 1860), Philip Lynch, convicted at the December term of the Court, of the murder of George Coulter, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in the yard of the County Jail, in this town(Mount Holly.) The murder of Coulter was one of peculiar atrocity. A brief review of the facts in the case, may not be unacceptable. On the night of the 23d of September last(1859), Coulter and Lynch met at a house in Bordentown, where there was quite a gathering of persons and a raffle going on. After remaining there a short time, Lynch, according to the testimony of Coulter's little boy, who was with him, invited Coulter to go to his (Lynch's) house, which he did. They sat down and commenced drinking. Lynch, shortly after they entered the house, brought a gun from up stairs and showed it to Coulter, remarking that he was "not afraid of anybody while he had that." Soon after, one Peter Conlin came in, and joi

New Jersey Mirror, 4 Dec 1907 The death chair has been installed at the State Prison and an Italian, convicted of murder in Somerset county, will be the first to thus pay the penalty for his crime in New Jersey. Giovanni's execution will be followed within the ensuing fortnight by three others, two of the murderers now awaiting electrocution being the negroes who so foully slew the defenceless wife and servant of an aged Camden county farmer while the husbands of the two victims were trying to save what they could from the burning barn which the murderers had previously fired. For such brutes the electric chair offers almost too merciful an agency through which the world is to be rid of them.