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Saturday, April 25, 2026

April 11, 1890 - *WARNING - GRAPHIC DETAILS* - By the Rope Route - Tragic Story of a Johnstown Murderer Charles Carter & His Death by Hanging - Cambria Freeman & Johnstown Weekly Tribune





This is what The Johnstown Weekly Tribune said:



This is the version from The Cambria Freeman











There were 200 tickets of admission given out for people to view the hanging in the jail yard in Ebensburg. I could find no tombstone listing for Carter - so he must have been buried in a paupers grave.




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