Weekly Gazette, Colorado Springs, 5 Jun 1886

Whitnah's Murderers.

Denver, June 3.--The grand jury today returned indictments against the negroes Green and Withers, charging them with the murder of J.C. Whitnah, the Broadway street car driver.


Castle Rock Record Journal, 2 June 1886

The suggestion by a correspondent to have the execution of Green, the negro assassin of Joseph Whitnah, made a public hanging, with an admission fee to go to the support of Mrs. Whitnah, is unusual and probably will not be approved by the authorities, but the proposition deserves some thought. Green certainly deprived Mrs. Whitnah of her husband's support, simply to secure his cash box. Then while Green lives, and dies, he should be made to furnish the support she has been deprived of, if it necessitates a public exhibition of his execution. Money will not restore the loss of her husband to her, but it is the next best thing to do. In this event, Barnum would be nowhere, and somebody ought to move that the rules be suspended and that Green be hanged by acclamation, at fifty cents admission.