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.